A bookseller, distributor, and publisher, gathered for another installment of PW's discussion series on the Future of Book Publishing to discuss the relevancy of publishing seasons. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp., the newspaper publisher that owns The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, beat profit estimates and posted gains in real-estate services and book publishing, even as advertising... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) has introduced a professional program to discuss the ongoing challenges to book publishing in India. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the New York Times' Drafts blog, comedian Steve Macone offered a helpful, humorous glossary of terms for the modern book business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Format has been a long-simmering topic of debate in book publishing, and the question of when, and if, a title is published in hardcover, paperback, and/or digital has become even more pressing as bricks-and-mortar bookstores dwindle and ebook sales grow. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
While digital distribution has roiled the newspaper, book publishing and music industries, a different story may be playing out in the world of comic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Knowledge@Wharton | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gains in its educational technology group were not enough to offset declines in the children’s book publishing and distribution unit resulting in a 5.8% decline in total sales at Scholastic for the first quarter ended August 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp.’s long-awaited split is official. Rupert Murdoch’s media behemoth Friday completed the separation of its entertainment from its news and information businesses into two publicly traded companies. The new News Corp (spelled with no period, differentiating it from the previous... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of book publishing is increasingly digital -- and increasingly tilted towards genre fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
When New Harbinger Publications cofounders Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning were establishing their small press in 1973, it was Fanning’s monthly reading of Popular Mechanics magazine that served as a step-by-step guide to book publishing for the partners. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harlequin parent company Torstar has announced restructuring in its book publishing and general... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the modern world of book publishing, should we all be preparing for a second career as an entrepreneur? Plenty of our colleagues are choosing that career path. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
High-speed inkjet printing has been described as the biggest development in book publishing in the past 50 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Johnny Depp launches his own book imprint with publishing company HarperCollins. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eli Horowitz does not think of himself as someone who “fetishizes the book.” But he’s also seen what books become, in digital form, and has not always been impressed. A former managing editor and publisher at McSweeney’s, Horowitz describes much of what he has seen in the digital revolution in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games,” Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net income jumped from $39.4 million to $102.4 million. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty years after it was founded by former Pantheon publisher Andre Schiffrin as a nonprofit publisher with a mission statement to publish “in the public interest,” the New Press is on something of a roll. The house has a new bestseller—Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow—spacious offices in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The word synergy, in the world of book publishing, feels like a term that died in the ’90s. Back then, almost every publisher housed within a media conglomerate was touting the ways it would use its TV-making or movie-making sister companies to sell books. Fox would boost HarperCollins.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 14/03/2011 - 08:52 United Agents co-founder and children's agent Rosemary Canter died on Friday [11th March]. Canter began her publishing career as assistant fiction editor at Penguin Books in 1972, eventually working in children's book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]