Bertrams has appointed an international sales director to support the book wholesaler’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is to restructure along divisional rather than geographic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertrams’ parent company Smiths News has bought Dutch-based academic books supplier... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Duchess of Cornwall, Stephen Fry and actor William Rycroft are among those gearing up to hand... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yale’s summer publishing course is entering its third year. The course offers publishing professionals an opportunity to learn industry strategies for expanding a brand’s scope and monetizing digital products. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new #1 fiction title in January was from bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen, who landed in the top spot with The Alphabet House. Adler-Olsen’s most recent U.S. title, The Keeper of Lost Causes, was released last August by Dutton and received a PW starred review. Dutton will publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
An international alliance of publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Print sales are in retreat in almost all markets across the world tracked by Nielsen BookScan,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comic book fans gather in the French city of Angouleme to celebrate the 39th international festival of comic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble has grown its international content team, as the US bookseller seeks to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the internet pats itself on the back for protesting SOPA and changing the minds of a handful of U.S. Senators, file-sharing site Megaupload has been brought down in one of the largest copyright infringement cases of all time. Seven individuals and two international corporations have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany’s top fiction title at the end of December, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson climbed up from #5, supplanting previous chart-topper Inheritance (Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance was also #2 in Spain). Jonasson’s novel has sold more... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books are expected to account for 17% of Simon & Schuster's total revenue in 2011,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A few days after Amazon announced that the Steve Jobs biography was its top-selling book of 2011 (combined print and ebook sales), the book debuted on bestseller charts around the world, including the three countries highlighted this month. Steve Jobs was #3 in France and the Netherlands, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson, the publisher of the Financial Times, is to sell its 50% stake in FTSE International to the London Stock Exchange for £450m, as it looks to focus on business news and analysis, and away from data. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Preschool TV programme Bookaboo has secured an international deal for a 52-episode... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
World Book Night founder Jamie Byng has said there is a "very good chance" the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The top three fiction titles in Germany were all debuts in October, led by In Times of Fading Light, which recently won the 2011 German Book Prize and is set for publication in the U.S. by Graywolf Press in fall 2013. Umberto Ecos newest book, The Prague Cemetery, which debuted at #3, is newly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Gayle Feldman Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 17:18 Barnes & Noble is to expand its ebook service internationally next year, the company's chief executive has revealed. The development was revealed at the company's New York press conference at which it unveiled its $249... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 09:00 The Publishers Association's international conference will focus on issues such as export sales and the growth of the English language, with speakers to include Barnes and Noble vice-president of digital content Theresa... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]