Chicago booksellers and other literary-minded organizations are responding to the crowds in town for the Democratic National Convention by selling books, promoting causes, and, in the case of one publication, reporting on the proceedings from a literary perspective. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
I spent a few days in DC over the long weekend for a wedding. Walking around leafy and well-appointed Capital Hill, I overheard a conversation between two older folks, as their dogs warily sniffed each other, about how people were taking and selling books from the little free libraries around... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-30 18:46:20 UTC ]
The Lviv BookForum was vibrant this year, but still there is the backdrop of conflict and the need to find a place for storytellingLast year’s Lviv BookForum, a literary festival in the elegant western Ukrainian city, was mostly an online affair, held in a basement lecture theatre that might... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-10-21 05:00:38 UTC ]
With preorders and book-tour pledges, Sourcebooks authors are reaching readers while fundraising for the environment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Panelists from Atria, Barnes & Noble, BookTok, Penguin, and St. Martin's gathered to discuss how the app is rewriting the rules for selling books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new book club queen has emerged—and she's almost as good at selling books as she is on the silver screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
Almost exactly 10 years ago, in May 2009, Amazon expanded from selling books to publishing them as well with the launch of Amazon Encore, a publishing program for promising self-published books and out-of-print works from major houses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Despite fears of a physical store "retail apocalypse," NPD BookScan's Kristen McLean outlined a future for indie booksellers driven by experimentation and selling books in more places. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The last time the Supreme Court took a hard look at how to impose sales taxes on home shopping, it was the era of mail-order catalogs — “before Amazon was even selling books out of Jeff Bezos’ garage,” lawyers recently told the justices. In 1992, the high court upheld a constitutional rule that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty-three years ago, Jeff Bezos was selling books out of his garage. On Thursday, the Amazon chief executive at least temporarily dethroned Bill Gates as the richest person in the world. Following a 1.3% jump in Amazon.com Inc. shares Thursday morning, Bezos, 53, was worth as much as $91.3... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
'We just have to do better at acquiring, marketing, and selling books by marginalized authors,' says HarperCollins' Andrew Harwell, this year's Frankfurt Book Fair-bound PW Star Watch Superstar. The post PW Star Watch’s Andrew Harwell: ‘Make Diversity a Priority’ appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many Canadian literary festivals match or exceed the Canada Council rate of CAD$250 for an author appearance. Fests are flourishing, coast to coast. The post Canadian Festivals: Paying Authors, Selling Books, Building Readership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Patterson is to target new avenues for selling books with a series of shorter, cheaper novels he is calling BookShots, the New York Times has reported. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com Inc. is ramping up its investment in podcasts and other radio-style shows to expand the types of programming it offers via Audible, the audio book company it acquired in 2008.Audible has recruited well-known comedians, along with radio and podcast producers for the initiative, and job... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops and libraries may seem, to some, unlikely allies. One is in the business of selling books while the other lends them out for free. But we know they can and do work together successfully, but by local arrangement rather than national policy. That is set to change. The Booksellers’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
For religion publishers, engaging Millennial readers is about more than selling books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas Nelson has struck a deal with Passion Conferences--a Christian organization that holds conferences for college-aged youth--to partner on a line of trade books. Such conferences are a robust venue for promoting and selling books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
If one theme resonated at the London Book Fair's Digital Minds conference, it was that even in the age of digital, we need to remember we are selling books to humans. The post LBF’s Digital Minds Emphasizes “People Over Pixels” appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishing house Lohvinau launches crowdfunding campaign after government imposed heavy fine on Minsk literary hub“We are trapped in an absurd and unjust situation which threatens not only the existence of Lohvinau Bookstore but which endangers the possibility to publish books freely... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ihar Lohvinau, who won the International Publishers Association's Freedom to Publish Prize 2014 earlier this year, is to face judgement and sentencing in January, charged with selling books from his Belarus bookshop without state registration. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]