Major imprints ‘confident’ they can meet schools minister Nick Gibb’s challenge to inspire children with sets of canonical novels at ‘minimal cost’Classic novels such as Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre should be available in secondary schools for all pupils to read,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book team at Nielsen held its second-annual Children's Book Summit, to discuss the current children's publishing market, presenting data that showed a wide range of sales and demographic trends. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Describe your role I project manage the creation of our audiobooks by a wide range of fiction and non-fiction authors. This involves reading manuscripts and identifying books to record, acquiring audio rights if necessary, casting the right voices to bring stories to life and arranging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New York Times on Monday defended its decision to exclude Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's book "A Time for Truth" from its bestseller list after discovering "strategic bulk purchases," though it did not offer any further details behind the decision."The Times's best-seller lists... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today, being a media company takes tech chops. Along with creating home-grown CMS, publishers often boast about their engineering prowess. From Time Inc., with 1,000 technologists, to The Huffington Post with 100, there is a wide range of how many technology employees publishers have on staff --... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women buy two-thirds of books sold but magazine reviews are centred on male authors and critics – though picture is beginning to changeThe continuing bias towards men in the British and American literary establishment has been confirmed by a study released on Tuesday.Vida, a US organisation... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weka owns more than 20 companies throughout Europe offering a wide range of business services in the B2B and B2C markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
CANNES, France—From magazines to TV, radio to newspapers, every medium has come to embrace native advertising. If Yahoo can leave its past behind, then surely advertisers can too. That was, more or less, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's advice to brands and advertisers attending the Cannes Lions... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
OverDrive added more than 2,100 libraries to its global network in the first four months of the year, gains that mark its effort to add a wide range of direct-to-consumer services to its offerings. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
SXSW Interactive (March 7-11), the annual tech festival, opens today in Austin, Tex. and expect to see a wide range of publishers and publishing-related events. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The books on the shortlist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2014 cover a wide range of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Founded in 2002, Paizo Publishing specializes in publishing tabletop role-playing games, or RPGs, in particular its flagship Pathfinder Role Playing Game, as well as magazines, books and a wide range of gaming accessories all designed for the fantasy game-playing marketplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dan Brown’s Inferno not only topped the American charts in May but was also #1 in the month in a wide range of international markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Line, the popular messaging platform based in Japan, is challenging ebook vendors like Amazon and Rakuten with a new service to download and view manga, or Japanese comic books. The company has launched "Line Manga," a mobile app for Android and iOS phones. Line's initial offering consists of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Getting into the app space can be a daunting prospect for publishers, but a wide range of developers have sprung up to help houses steer through what is still an uncertain new frontier for book interactivity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 18/02/2011 - 08:20 Orion has launched a new imprint, Swordfish, publishing a wide range of commercial non-fiction as well as a small selection of fiction. Non-fiction publishing director Rowland White will take on the role of publisher. Six... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]