It’s no wonder that Kate Morton, who travels with aplomb to vastly different time zones between her current London residence and her homeland of Australia, is fascinated by different aspects of time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goodreads is credited by Penguin Press for helping to rapidly build the popularity of bestseller 'Little Fires Everywhere' and generating 30,089 'Want to Read' signals by release date. The post At BookExpo, Penguin and Goodreads Chart the Blaze of Celeste Ng’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ appeared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The audiobook boom is most prominent in North America, and it is spreading across the world, as discussed in a panel on Wednesday at the New York Rights Fair entitled “The Audiobook Heard ‘Round the World.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Imagine some not too distant dystopian future where women are completely subservient to men and barely allowed to speak. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
BookExpo kicked off with the traditional adult book breakfast featuring three comedians, two novelists, and one history professor drawing laughs even while explaining how political and social upheavals inspire their writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Casemate Group and Boydell & Brewer have reached an agreement for Casemate to handle all sales, distribution, fulfillment, customer service, and other back-of-house functions for B&B’s print books for North and South America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is social media poetry on Instagram, tumblr, and other platforms here to stay, or is it a passing fad, like coloring books? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four Tor authors—Charlie Jane Anders, Seth Dickinson, S.L. Huang, and V.E. Schwab—discuss identity, characters, and worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
'There can never be too many bookstores in America,' Barnes & Noble chief Len Riggio tells an appreciative crowd at the bookseller-oriented 2018 BookExpo in New York. The post Riggio Rallies Booksellers at BookExpo: ‘Open More Stores Than We Close’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Before Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, or Food Network star Ina Garten, there was Edna Lewis (1916–2006). The granddaughter of former slaves, she gained renown for her cooking and cookbooks that revived refined Southern cooking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Open Road Integrated Media, a content company that delivers a variety of digital experiences for readers, recently announced a new strategic alliance with Ingram Content Group to expand consumer reach and boost how readers discover new books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quirk began publishing graphic novels this May and the indie publisher has plans to steadily add more books in formats over the next few years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year’s PEN America–hosted BookExpo panel saw journalists and a civil rights activist debate the meaning of free speech in an era of “fake news” and deep racial tensions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten years ago Matthew Lore, who had been v-p and executive editor at Da Capo Press, teamed up with his business partner, Peter Burri, to found the Experiment. The press’s mission is to have a list in which “every book is a test of new ideas.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
At BookExpo, Ingram Publishers Services is introducing a seven-month-long promotion to encourage booksellers to sell more books in translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Original Stories, a new imprint dedicated to short digital fiction and nonfiction, released its first collection, 'The Real Thing,' yesterday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Good public policy,' the Association of American Publishers says at BookExpo, includes "good copyright policy.' And the Authors Guild is producing a new, major survey of authors' earnings. The post At BookExpo, a Look at Copyright Issues: ‘It’s the Author Who Suffers’ appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Founded in 1918 in New York City, Church Publishing Inc. is celebrating its first century this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the book business, print and digital markets have found balance, CEOs say, but political instability in the culture at large remains a cause for concern. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rounding up this year's big books of BookExpo, according to booksellers on the show floor, range from the former first lady's upcoming memoir to a work of autofiction written by a convicted bank robber. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]