Independent publisher And Other Stories will only publish books by female writers in 2018, in response to a call for a Year of Publishing Women by the author Kamila Shamsie. The initiative, to be held in 2018 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote in the UK, would help... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
SAGE has purchased Pion Limited, an independent publisher of academic journals. The sale, which was brokered by Bertoli Mitchell LLP, was announced jointly by chairman for Pion, David Cohen and Ziyad Marar, SAGE’s global publishing director. The acquisition results in Pion’s entire publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
After running Black Classic Press for nearly 40 years, founder W. Paul Coates said he is proud of his work as an independent publisher. But he said his work running BCD Digital Printing, a short-run printing operation, may be more significant: “I don’t know of any other full-time... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libraries, publishers and bookshops will suffer under a Conservative government, a leading independent publisher has warned. When collecting the Independent Publisher of the Year trophy at the Bookseller Industry Awards on Monday (11th May), Profile Books m.d. Andrew Franklin gave a strong... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shindig!’s Jon Mills and Andy Morten on the perils of striking a magazine publishing deal without the proper paperworkJust before Easter, Jon Mills and Andy Morten signed off the 47th issue of Shindig!, the music magazine the two of them have been producing for around 20 years. Although... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
High court backs Hachette against Hesperus Press, British publisher of Jonas Jonasson’s The 100-Year-Old Man, after claims of missing royalty paymentsThe high court has ordered the British publisher of Jonas Jonasson’s smash-hit novel The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher O/R Books has partnered with the literary magazine 'Evergreen Review,' in a deal which will see O/R distributing content from the magazine via the press's direct-to-consumer model. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie Book Day is set to make a mark on the UK this year after starting in Germany two years ago and quickly spreading across Europe. The campaign – which hopes to become comparable to the American Record Store Day event, but for books – wants readers to flock to independent bookshops on 21st... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Smith, the founder and former c.e.o. of Quercus, is to join Bonnier Publishing as c.e.o. of its fiction department. Smith left Quercus after the formerly independent publisher was bought by Hachette UK’s Hodder & Stoughton earlier this year. He will now become c.e.o. of Bonnier... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero is attempting to beat Amazon's delivery promises by offering free same-day delivery across central London. The independent publisher will offer the service for two weeks from 1st December, with orders placed before 2p.m. on Monday to Friday delivered the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than half of staff at Constable & Robinson have left the publisher since Little, Brown Book Group bought the company, it has emerged. The formerly independent publisher was purchased by the Hachette division in February, with the Constable & Robinson team moving into Little,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The History Press has restructured following a company-wide review, creating four distinct business units, and putting "a small number" of people into consultation over their jobs. The independent publisher, specialising in local history as well as military history titles, underwent a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Press at Toad Hall, an independent publisher of classics based out of Philadelphia, will be opening its first retail location, a pop-up store that will feature new editions of classic works, later this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Consultation has begun on over 20 roles at Constable & Robinson as the independent publisher... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dennis Publishing, the independent publisher of titles such as The Week, is breaking into the children's market for the first time with the launch of Berty Squiggles, a kids' colouring and activity magazine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In reporting its last results as an independent publisher, Penguin Group posted a 16% gain in sales, to 513 million pounds, and a 27% rise in adjusted operating profit to 28 million pounds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book publishing has been famously slow to embrace technology, but some industry executives are hoping it's never too late to change. Taking a page from the tech community, an independent publisher and a top talent agency will announce Monday that they have joined forces to host the first-ever... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher And Other Stories has teamed up with Consortium Distribution to launch a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is teaming up with independent publisher And Other Stories to help give a wider release to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Soho Press, an independent publisher with a full-time staff of nine, is made up of a band of fiercely loyal book lovers. The press was taken over by publisher Bronwen Hruska in 2010.Juliet Grames, Soho’s senior editor, said, about working with her: “For our first 25 years we were a quality... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]