Google Inc.'s YouTube said it acquired RightsFlow Inc., a small company that tracks and processes royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has acquired digital publishing rights to the entire backlist of thriller writer Geoffrey... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booker Prize moves sales, especially for the winner. Not only does the British literary prize matter to U.K. readers, but Americans apparently care as well. After Julian Barness The Sense of an Ending was awarded the Booker last week, the authors English publisher, Jonathan Cape, announced... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 13/10/2011 - 15:15 Yet more rights deals announced at Frankfurt Book Fair today, including Piatkus' foreign rights team is having a runaway success with début novel The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantynewhich they are likening to Nicci French and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Wed, 12/10/2011 - 14:00 A flurry of rights deals have been announced at Frankfurt Book Fair, including a memoir by BBC Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine and the history of Britain told through postal stamps. Michael Joseph has acquired world English-language... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 30/09/2011 - 10:57 Transworld has acquired John Irving's next two novels, securing hardback as well as paperback rights for the first time. Publisher Bill Scott-Kerr acquired British Commonwealth rights to Irving's next novel, In One... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 22/09/2011 - 14:15 Quercus has acquired two books from 26-year-old debut author, Prajwal Parajuly, who becomes the youngest writer at the publisher. Editor in chief Jon Riley bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Thu, 15/09/2011 - 15:15 Virgin Books has acquired a title by craft journalist Perri Lewis, which will enlist the worlds top makers to explore different crafts from dressmaking to decoupage. World rights to Material World: Inspiration and Secrets from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Tue, 09/08/2011 - 09:05 Egmont has won the publishing contract for the latest preschool series to run on CBeebies, Baby Jake, which launched in July and which is expected to be the next big childrens hit. Baby Jake was developed by Darrall Macqueen... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 10:29 A new collection of stories from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; a début by a former Macmillan, Penguin and Hachette marketer; and Richard Fords new novel were among the rights deals signed this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Wed, 22/06/2011 - 16:00 Territorial rights are "obsolete", and contribute to the erosion of publishers' margins, but publishing remains an "intimate" business that would not be improved if local nuances are not respected, delegates at Publishers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Tom Tivnan Publication Date: Wed, 08/06/2011 - 15:17 Digital rights management is a "felony", delegates at the second day of a UNESCO conference on digital books heard, as proponents for the liberalisation of copyright laws clashed with those favouring more traditional intellectual... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Mon, 11/04/2011 - 16:10 A flurry of rights deals have been announced at this year's London Book Fair, with a Condoleeza Rice memoir and four Paullina Simons novels in the works. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Russia the market focus country at the Fair, Russian publishers will be at Earls Court in force and there will be many associated literary and cultural events. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Translations account for about 12% of all titles published in Russia in 2010. Here, as in other corners of the world, American and British blockbusters are translated and almost guaranteed top slots on the bestseller list. Names like J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Mon, 21/03/2011 - 08:53 HarperCollins is to publish Darren Shan's backlist as ebooks, having concluded a deal with the Christopher Little Agency for the digital rights. Shan has been published in print by HarperCollins Children's Books for a decade... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Thu, 17/03/2011 - 06:39 French authors have urged culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand to intecede in order to break the deadlock in their negotiations with publishers over electronic rights. For the second year running, the Permanent Council of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 11/03/2011 - 10:11 Agents have claimed two big-money deals worth £500,000 each, which could mark a return to confidence in the rights market in the crucial weeks ahead of next month's London Book Fair. Simon & Schuster publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Fri, 25/02/2011 - 08:25 Egmont UK has acquired the rights to publish all new titles from Australian children's publisher Little Hare in the UK market. Little Hare's list includes authors and illustrators such as David Bedford, Jan Ormerod and recent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]