Sourcebooks is moving more directly into international markets with its fast-growing Bloom Books, launching imprints in multiple international markets to publish translations of the imprint’s romance titles by entrepreneurial authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Audio production company Audio Up Media and book publishing house Harlequin Enterprises are teaming up to adapt 52 of the publisher's romance titles into scripted podcast series, with an eye to also turn these into--more highly monetizable--TV series. Audio Up, also home to mental health and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2022-12-06 12:42:46 UTC ]
Publishers are missing out on audiobook listeners who want sci-fi and romance titles, statistics on sales show. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 14:46:44 UTC ]
E-book publisher Diversion Books has launched EverAfter, a bookstore app dedicated to romance titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
While interest in romance titles is showing no signs of slowing down—they continue to find their way into top spots on bestseller lists and command major advances from big-six editors—it’s the newish category new adult that is particularly hot right now. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was the talk of the London Book Fair. Then it was the talk of the summer. Then it became the book news story of the year. The Fifty Shades series—an originally self-published erotica written as Twilight fan fiction—was too new a phenomenon in April, when the London Book Fair was underway, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Those who work in publishing—and especially those who write books—are no strangers to jealousy. Why does one title become a bestseller when another doesn’t? That sentiment has certainly bubbled up around E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy. While some romance editors and authors say they don’t... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ask any Chinese readers for their impression of books from Taiwan, and most likely they will cite meticulous editing and beautiful covers while reeling off the names of authors of literary gems, romance titles, and martial art novels. Turn to any American or European publisher, and chances are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 23/06/2011 - 07:15 Random House is to revive its 1980 romance imprint Loveswept as a digital-exclusive list. The ebooks will be published in a trans-Atlantic partnership with Transworld in the UK. The development follows the strong growth of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
After putting select teen and romance titles up for sale last month, New York City-based Dorchester Media has decided to sell the rest of its magazine stable, offering up the eight magazines that comprise the Woman's Romance Group, such as 92-year-old, 250,000-circ. flagship True Story. The move... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 15/02/2011 - 09:39 Indie publisher Salt has launched a digital imprint, Embrace Books, comprising four series of erotica and romance titles. Red Velvet is billed as "sexy, sophisticated romance", while After Dark is an "intense,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]