Cuts have eroded the quantity and quality of the press. We must have a say on where to go nextHere is the news. Newspaper publishing revenues from both circulation and print advertising, have plunged by more than half over the past decade, down from almost £7bn to just over £3bn. Here’s more... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
We the ad industry need to move faster.When Apple's iPhone debuted in 2007, few believed it would lead to the disruption and opportunities it has created within mobile and adjacent spaces.Mobile phones went from single-purpose devices to, in some ways, being the operating system for how we go... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The number of bookshops in Ireland has dropped by 30 in the past decade, new figures have revealed, but booksellers in the country are currently bullish about the future of physical retail. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past decade, China has imported classic children’s books of all genres from the West at a rate far faster than it would have taken another country or territory to accomplish, observes director Chen Yushiuan of Beijing-based Bardon Chinese Media Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and librarian G X Todd on how it feels to be a librarian amid the changes to the library service in the past decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
After selling over 17 million copies of ‘Jesus Calling’ over the past decade, Sarah Young discusses her follow-up 365-day devotional, ‘Jesus Always,’ which is already setting records for HarperCollins Christian Publishing’s gift division. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Published to tremendous acclaim in 2000 but out of print for much of the past decade, Helen DeWitt’s massive novel The Last Samurai is being reissued this month by New Directions. With any luck, the acclaim for DeWitt’s 2011 tragicomisexual satire Lightning Rods will encourage readers to return... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The retiring B&N chairman reflects on his years in the bookselling business, and the big changes that have reshaped the chain in the past decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Great American Bargain Book Show, SIBA to discuss moving the annual bargain book event to another city as vendor turnout declines over the past decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ingenuity or ruthlessness? Take your choice... but the result is still the sameNewspaper commentators who have been charting the demise of newsprint for the past decade or so have tended to predict that there will be a transformative moment when newspapers go over a cliff.We know it won’t be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
We take a look back at the winners from the past 10 years of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The US indie website, bought this week by the publisher of Vogue, continues growing as the NME goes free, and Q and Mojo’s print circulations slideIf music journalism is dying a slow commercial death, then no one told Pitchfork. While British magazines such as NME (for which I write reviews), Q... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Frankfurt Book Fair is no stranger to change: over the past decade, it has aggressively pursued new initiatives aimed at including the full horizon of storytelling in digital media, in films and games as well as books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The long-anticipated ribbon cutting for Anderson Bookshop’s third Chicagoland store takes place this weekend as does the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, which has been held every other year for the past decade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although new stores continue to open in Maine, the state has lost about half of its traditional bookstores over the past decade, according to New England Independent Booksellers Association executive director Steve Fischer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past decade, Chelsea Green Publishing Company in White River Junction, Vt., has appeared frequently on PW’s list of fast-growing small presses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Listening to an audiobook is, by its very nature, a sensory experience—and for the past decade, GraphicAudio, an imprint of the Bethesda, Md.–based Cutting Corp., has been targeting listeners’ senses in a big way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Postal rate hikes, paper shortages, the rise of digital publishing, and one of the deepest economic recessions in recent history are just a few of the factors that have harried magazine publishers in the past decade. Many publishers have had to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sierra Entertainment is one of those legendary companies from the '90s that died somewhere in the past decade of industry consolidation. See also: LucasArts, Mythic, Midway, Neversoft, et al. Known primarily for the "Quest" series of adventure games—King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest—and... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past decade, I’ve visited a lot of central libraries—from Chicago to Liverpool to Denver—only to come home to New York and wonder, why don’t we have a great public library? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]