Jon Stewart announced plans Tuesday night to leave his perch on The Daily Show later this year. The shrieks and cries you heard coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn? That was the sound of publishing and media insiders realizing that their best avenue for jump-starting book sales and making... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cynthia Bond's novel "Ruby" is set in Texas and tells a fierce and poetic tale of a worldly, beautiful black woman, Ruby Bell, and her struggle not to be destroyed by her home community of Liberty Township. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faith-based films panel at Sundance; awards and honors; peaceful new book club; NIV celebrates 50 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since word first broke right after New Year’s day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg started a book club, Perseus Books Group has sold about 10,000 copies of the ebook edition of 'The End of Power' and more than 3,000 trade paperback copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Show how much you know! Here's our quiz for January 9, 2015.What the heck happened this week? Research says that one of the best ways to solidify new information is to be tested on it. Here's a chance to bolster your knowledge of current events—and earn a special emoji badge. Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has set up a book club on the social networking site, attracting more than 120,000 likes in three days. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Facebook founder, who has over 30 million followers, has launched a new book club as part of a challenge to himself, for 2015, to read a new book every two weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oprah is great for women, but she's not talking to men. Isn't it time publishers and the media take men as seriously as readers as the men take themselves? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Armed with a new name, five employees and $5.3 million in financing, Wilmington-based e-Book subscription service Entitle is open for business this week. Founder Bryan Batten, who left a career in pharma sales to jump off the startup ledge, calls the service “a hybrid of Netflix and a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sue Monk Kidd's "The Invention of Wings" comes out Jan. 7. The novel weaves together the stories of a slave girl and a slave owner's daughter. Like Kidd's best-selling "The Secret Life of Bees," the book is set in South Carolina. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
NBC's 'Today' show will be picking monthly titles for a book club, with Samantha Shannon's 'The Bone Season' serving as the first selection. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Today Show's monthly book club gives publishers new hope for Oprah-like success and features interactive elements like Twitter chats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
US show "Today: is launching a new book club for the first time in more than ten years. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley has said the idea of the bookshop as a book club, charging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Restaurant chain Pizza Hut is partnering with W H Smith and marketing communications agency... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many in the book world are eager to discover if Oprah's book club – after a two-year hiatus and now on the lower-profile OWN network – will still draw readers in massive numbers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Everyone! Check under your chairs! It's a...new book club from Oprah! Yep, the former queen of daytime TV is revamping her famed literary organization for the 21st century. Winfrey says she was so taken by Cheryl Strayed's Wild, that she absolutely had to get back on the book peddling bandwagon.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
After two years, Oprah Winfrey's highly influential book club is being revived, with "Wild," by Cheryl Strayed, as the first selection. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has launched a "book club" promotion, with the strapline: "Books you... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 09:44 Penguin and Sainsbury's are to jointly launch a new website to support the Sainsbury's Book Club, launching on 21st July. The Book Club will run from 7th July 2011 to July 2012. As reported in January, the book club this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]