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 ]