In its first major redesign since the series was launched in 1993, DK’s Eyewitness Travel Guides are being revamped for the digital age. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
The market is 'robust and solid,' the BookExpo audience hears from three of the biggest books CEOs in the world. It's just the consumers who keep changing. The post BookExpo’s Roundtable With CEOs Cites Stability, Growth, Promise for Books Ahead appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
No book industry gathering would be complete without food—or books about food—for both adults and kids who want to learn how to cook or get new techniques for doing it faster, with healthy ingredients and bigger flavors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
We spoke with a number of booksellers about their impressions of the show, and the titles they were most looking forward to grabbing at publishers’ booths. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you are a crime, thriller, or mystery fan and you haven’t checked out criminalelement.com, stop everything and go right now. We’ll wait... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just weeks before the Harvey Weinstein scandal hit and the #MeToo movement went viral, actress, writer, and film director Amber Tamblyn wrote an ardent 'New York Times' editorial about how she was done with not being believed about her own harassment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colleen Hoover makes the time to oversee a subscription box program and specialty bookstore that together have raised more than a million dollars for charity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Warning: Other authors may not want to read this story because it will make them want to tear their hair out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
With a catalogue that includes'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,' Quirk Books fits solidly in the nerd/pop culture niche. 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 ]
Despite fears of a physical store "retail apocalypse," NPD BookScan's Kristen McLean outlined a future for indie booksellers driven by experimentation and selling books in more places. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 'The Boneless Mercies' (FSG, Oct.), a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set out to defeat a marauding monster, Tucholke is making her first foray into fantasy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reed Exhibitions s.v.p. Americas Ed Several kicked off the "Reimagined BookExpo" at Javits Center in New York, before the keynote from Barnes & Noble founder/chairman Len Riggio. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Jonathan Lethem (the author of 'Motherless Brooklyn' and many other books), who works at his craft every day, is so upset he doesn’t want to write, something is very, very wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Texas native Ngozi Ukazu first wrote about hockey in a screenplay-writing seminar during her senior year at Yale. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Deborah Harkness, history professor at the University of Southern California, was riveted by the alternate world of the Twilight series, a free-spirited departure from the 16th-century Elizabethan era that was her specialty. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 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 ]
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 ]
'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 ]