J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Sphere) and her pseudonymous The Cuckoo's Calling (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the week when Penguin Random House came into being, the combined group has dominated the top... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing announces that the Hangman's Daughter series is their first million seller. Is it a cause for concern? Celebration? Or merely surprise that it took this long? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Big Brother is watching. And people are reading.Big Brother is watching. And people are reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The beginnings of Ellora’s Cave, the Akron, Ohio–based publisher of erotic romance fiction, have become something of a publishing business legend. Tina M. Engler, a single mom at the time, began writing the kind of romance novels she wanted to read—novels written with explicit descriptions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Allegations of stockpiling and best-seller list manipulation have rocked the publishing world in South Korea as publishers combat decreasing book sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon, the biggest bookseller in America, is also famously one of the most tight-lipped. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
First good reviews went on sale. Now a marketing firm is charging thousands to buy copies of books in order to artificially place them on bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
British writer Terry Deary, author of the 'Horrible Histories' children's series, says that libraries have 'had their day' and that there is no 'entitlement to read books for free.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fans angry over a delayed ebook release for the finale in Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' series have given the book one-star ratings on Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
No one would have been able to predict at the start of 2012 that a BDSM erotic romantic trilogy—Fifty Shades—would set new records for book sales and change/spice up what women worldwide would admit to be reading, many for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trade magazines Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller have put out new lists analyzing the bestselling books of 2012. No surprise, but E.L. James dominated. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parsing through the top 10 bestsellers of 2012 in a number of major publishing categories reads like a usual suspects list, as a small number of authors filled a large number of spots. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has revealed that 15% of its bestselling Kindle books in the UK last year were written by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney’s latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year, according to Nielsen BookScan,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you bought a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for your e-reader, you are not alone -- not by a long shot. If you bought a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for your e-reader, you are not alone -- not by a long shot. E.L. James' sexy novel about innocent college student Anastasia Steele and her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about her book 'Team of Rivals,' and what it was like to see her work come to life in Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books published by Amazon like the Penny Marshall memoir 'My Mother Was Nuts' have not seen strong sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling, E.L. James, and Ken Follett all had books on multiple lists around the world as Septembercame to a close. The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling’s first book for adults, landed at #1 in France and the U.K. when it was released late last month. Two spots behind Vacancy in France is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 7th Woman by Frédérique Molay is a serial killer novel that’s sold over 150,000 copies in France and has been published in seven languages, in addition to its native French. You can add English to that list on October 23, when indie startup Le French Book brings it to the U.S. as an ebook,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]