Since it launched in January 2020, Bookshop.org has been a popular place for readers to buy books while supporting local ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-28 15:52:54 UTC ]
As of this morning, you can now easily buy ebooks from your local indie bookstore. Thanks to Bookshop.org, the reigning David to Am*zon’s Goliath. As Wired reports, a new platform on the site will now sell ebooks directly to customers. Bookshop users can buy and read titles via a handy-dandy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 14:35:29 UTC ]
The challenger brand to Amazon’s hegemony has big plans to build further, starting with a new e-book initiative. Andy Hunter decided something needed to be done about the endless rise of Amazon in 2018—the year that the e-commerce giant surpassed 50% of book sales in the U.S. market. “I was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-01-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
The bookseller is applying its sales model—where online purchases support indie bookstores—to digital books. It has also released a mobile app for shopping and reading ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2025-01-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
Looking to capitalize on the books-as-objects trend, Sourcebooks has formed a bespoke publishing operations team and appointed Carolyn Telesca to head the new unit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
The online bookseller, which offers a profit-sharing model to independent bookstore partners, launched its long-anticipated e-book platform on January 28, allowing indies to sell e-books directly to customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
The new program, Sourcebooks Audio, produced in partnership with Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, aims to put out more than 40 titles next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks' romance line Bloom Books has new partnerships with Penguin Random House in Germany and Companhia das Letras in Brazil. The post Sourcebooks Takes Bloom Books Romance into Germany and Brazil appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-12-11 22:07:41 UTC ]
Sourcebooks has formed Hear Your Story, a new imprint featuring guided journals for families to share their memories and life lessons. The imprint is being formed in partnership with author Jeffrey Mason, who created the Hear Your Story series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Following a successful slate of U.K. releases and U.S imports, author Cynthia Murphy will pen new YA thrillers under a three-book deal with Delacorte Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on “inclusive romantic and pop fiction,” and will aim to publish four to six titles per year. CEO and publisher Dominique Raccah called the imprint “a dream partnership.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Chinese mythology, how to write a story, a guide to good citizenship, and more of today's best children's book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-10-09 16:02:00 UTC ]
Fondazione LIA's new APACE: 30 million Europeans await the EU Accessibility Act, but will publishers be there for them? The post Europe’s APACE: Only 1 in 4 Publishers Produce Accessible Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-02 23:48:06 UTC ]
Stevie Wilson: Tablets Are a New Way for Prisons to Profit off the Incarcerated In 2015, the PA DOC introduced tablets sold by GTL (now Viapath) to the general population. We were told we would be able to send and receive emails, buys songs and books, submits requests to staff and order... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-20 08:56:11 UTC ]
A celebration of kids and their dogs, a monster-hunting girl, and more of today's best children's book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-11 14:46:00 UTC ]
The Internet Archive is starting to run out of legal options. Wired reports that the non-profit internet cataloguer of videos, games and books lost its appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court rejected Archive.org’s claim in its ongoing lawsuit with several high... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-09-04 20:24:53 UTC ]
A partnership between the Digital Public Library of America and the Independent Publishers Group is offering an e-book ownership option from a wide range of indie publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
We cannot let real books go the way of vinyl records, writes 15-year-old Jude Brayton. Plus letters from Celia Anderson and Jean Jackson Sadly, it may well be that books go the way of vinyl records (I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarefied pursuit for hobbyists, 6 August).... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-08-09 16:54:51 UTC ]
Travel guides are taking fresh approaches to, and expanding beyond, familiar destinations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks is expanding its reach into the indie bookseller sales channel by replacing commission reps with an in-house sales team. The Chicagoland-based publisher has poached Courtney Payne from Chronicle Books to lead the team as director of indie retail sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]