Well, our English friends, today is a good day. Your choice in e-readers is about to get that much better as Barnes & Noble has decided to make your homeland the first stop on its highly-anticipated international tour. The Nook and its associated store will be making their big debut in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo's Android app recently enjoyed a brief stint of global superiority, but that playing field has been leveled with the company's latest update for iOS. Like the Android version, Kobo for iOS now includes support for Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Additionally, users will also... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
It turns out the Fifty Shades craze is not restricted to the U.S. On all three charts tracked this month, E.L. James’s blockbuster book placed high on the list. In Spain and Italy, where Fifty Shades of Grey debuted in June, it landed at #1 and #2, respectively. In the Netherlands, the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]