Even as the publishing business in the Czech Republic has welcomed a zero percent VAT, book sales continue dropping. The post Mixed Sales on the Czech Market, Despite Zero-VAT Rates appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-02-21 15:22:26 UTC ]
Blumhouse wasn’t going to publish a game in 2024. The studio, one of the leading names in horror films, announced in February 2023 that it was launching a video game publishing business and executives were scouting projects from independent teams with budgets under $10 million. The goal of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-10-25 14:00:44 UTC ]
On the occasion of her literary agency's 30th birthday, PW spoke with Jane Dystel about how the publishing business has changed over the years, why she loves being an agent, and what makes her fall in love with a manuscript. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
On the occasion of her literary agency's 30th birthday, PW spoke with Jane Dystel about how the publishing business has changed over the years, why she loves being an agent, and what makes her fall in love with a manuscript. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
NoViolet Bulawayo among authors paying tribute to independent publishing house that shook up the country’s literary sceneWhen the Zimbabwean editor Irene Staunton and her husband Murray McCartney set up their publishing business in 1998, it seemed natural to call it Weaver Press. Their modest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-12-07 07:00:02 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK has acquired Australia-based publisher Hardie Grant Publishing’s U.K. publishing business, which is comprised of Hardie Grant UK and Quadrille. The sale will have no direct impact on Hardie Grant North America's business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
During the Digiday Publishing Summit, the COO of VMG’s news and entertainment arm explained how its publishing business plans to bounce back over the next 12 to 18 months. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2023-09-20 04:01:00 UTC ]
Editors and literary agents on the mechanics—and the emotions—behind the publishing business, what makes a bestseller, and how book bidding wars can cloud expectations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
On strike since November 2022, the HarperCollins union walkout has become a test case for how labor unions could change the publishing business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Nick Beilenson, who took over his parents' publishing business, Peter Pauper Press, in 1981 died on February 22 of complications from Covid-19. He was 85. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Spike Trotman, comics creator, writer, and founder of Iron Circus Comics, has led the way in using crowdfunding as part of a scalable publishing business model that can support unique titles within the comics shop and trade book markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Lagardère, the parent company of Hachette Livre, will dissolve its current management structure and transition to a more conventional joint stock company, and reasserted its commitment to the publishing business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) is acquiring the publishing business of Lion Hudson from the AFD Group to become the UK’s largest Christian publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-21 20:30:24 UTC ]
As Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shifts more of its education publishing business to the creation of digital products, the company said it has implemented a restructuring program that will cut its workforce by 22% in order to save between $95 million to $100 million annually. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Nan A. Talese is retiring after more than 60 years working in the publishing business. Talese has run her eponymous imprint at Doubleday since 1990, where she published a long roster of award-winning authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
it is impossible for publishing to fulfil its own diversity agenda while continuing to pay low wages to most workers and to maintain its decades-long secrecy over pay and progression Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-11 23:48:14 UTC ]
Penguin Random House's efforts to to pivot to a new, digital normal are some of the broadest in the publishing business thus far, and its #BooksConnectUs initiative, which will turn two months old on May 20, is its connective tissue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
I have been with Folio: for eight years now. In that time I have seen a lot of ups and downs in magazines and publishing. Mass layoffs, bankruptcies, brand closures and misplaced bets have often dominated our headlines and the narratives around our industry. While all of those unfortunate... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-03-17 18:18:06 UTC ]
The Bookseller’s Working Class survey, an analysis of class in the publishing business, has been named Content Piece of the Year at the PPA's Independent Publisher Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-11 12:39:47 UTC ]
Facebook is bringing its music and related interactive video features to more markets in Europe. Music publishing business development lead for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Ella Kirby said in a blog post that music on Facebook and Instagram is now available in Denmark, Finland, Iceland,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2019-10-17 15:45:27 UTC ]