Louisiana to start collecting online sales tax; Jeff Kinney's Massachusetts store wins design awards; and NPR's Morning Edition to be broadcast from an Illinois bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book sales in Ireland increased 16% in 2015, boosted by the popularity of authors such as David Walliams and Jeff Kinney, but booksellers and publishers in the country say strong local publishing is also on the rise. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week saw an unexpected new title shoot to the top of the U.K's official book charts: "Mog's Christmas Calamity," by children's author Judith Kerr. Aged 92, Kerr has penned a new book featuring "Mog," a cat beloved to generations of British kids but what's really unusual is that she wrote... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney’s 10th Wimpy Kid installment, ‘Old School,’ is the number one book in the country. Plus Leah Remini writes a Scientology tell-all, YouTube baker Rosanna Pansino cooks up her first book, and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's 10th Wimpy Kid novel will be called Old School, and will be published simultaneously around the world. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School, will be published on 3rd November in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, as well as foreign-language markets such as Germany, Japan, Turkey and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is putting the finishing touches on An Unlikely Story, a general bookstore that he is building from the ground up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by hits from David Walliams, Jeff Kinney and Egmont’s Minecraft stable, the UK children’s market hit an all-time high in revenue and market share in 2014, and exceeded sales of Adult Fiction for the first time since accurate records began. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books for children and young adults are top of the league, bagging seven of this year’s top 10, but non-fiction has endured another annus horribilisSee the chart in fullAt long last, kids ruled in 2014. Books aimed at them have often figured in the top 10 of the all-year sales chart for printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the three-week shopping season that began Thanksgiving week, Jeff Kinney's newest installment in the Wimpy Kid series has sold more than 535,000 print copies at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the Christmas rush got underway, the US book market surged again last week with print volumes increasing by 26% week on week. Overall, just over 20m book sales registered through Nielsen BookScan in the seven days ending 7th December. Jeff Kinney's The Long Haul (Amulet), enjoys another... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's The Long Haul (Puffin) has retained its spot on the UK Official Top 50 for the second straight week by posting the best weekly sale of 2014, and in the process becoming the fastest selling book of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's newest Wimpy Kid title has débuted at number one, knocking David Walliams' Awful Auntie from the top of the UK Official Top 50 after a run of six consecutive weeks. The Long Haul (Puffin), the ninth of Kinney's books featuring hapless middle schooler Greg Heffley, sold 59,315... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the November 4 publication of the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, 'The Long Haul,' Jeff Kinney's series will surpass 150 million copies in print worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney says he plans to open a bookstore in his town of Plainville, Mass., aimed at breaking even within five years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The next book in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid series will be released on 5th November 2014. A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hard Luck, the eighth book in Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, was the bestselling book across all print formats in 2013, selling over 1.8 million hardcover copies Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's eighth Diary of a Wimpy Kid novel, Hard Luck (Puffin), has retained top spot in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney has notched up the biggest weekly sale for a children's book in over a year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Puffin has released the cover and title of the eighth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book by Jeff Kinney... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney's new Diary of a Wimpy Kid novel, The Third Wheel (Puffin), has proved the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]