America's Test Kitchen hopes to give home chefs a better option than the "excess" of online recipes with its big Christmas book, '100 Recipes: The Absolute Best Ways to Make the True Essentials.' Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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The Authors Guild is seeking more than $2 billion in damages from Google Books – which may make this one of the most expensive copyright damages cases in litigation history. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Launched at the end of 2011, the ebook program of the Library of America has released eight titles so far with plans to publish about two ebooks a month for the next year. LOA publisher Max Rudin explained that the nonprofit charged with producing high-quality, beautifully designed editions of... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of ebooks doubled in 2011. But books are still an analog business, by a wide margin. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A diary that writes on its own pages in one of the Harry Potter books inspires a paper that spells out blood types. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Random House Group is signing publishing partnerships with digital start-up Small Demons and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pulitzer Prize winner A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A Knopf) is among the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker has acquired a debut novel from Anglo-Afghan documentary-maker and writer, Saira... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Librarian Matthew White discusses 'The Great Big Book of Horrible Things' and his desire to set the record straight. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The second half of 2011 continued to be a challenging time for magazine publishers, with only four of the top 20 consumer titles achieving lifts in print circulations. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Future is encouraging media agencies to probe the numbers its magazine publishing rivals are claiming for their tablet editions, as part of an "educational" initiative to grow the tablet advertising market. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keeping pace with the dramatic changes on the smartphone and tablet front is no small feat for any publisher, but doing so presents a particular challenge for smaller companies without a safety net of funds for experimentation with platforms that are at once in their infancy and yet increasingly... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For an indie publisher to launch its first line with a $300 art book takes guts and vision, but that’s what Ammo Books’ founders Paul Norton and Steve Crist did in 2006 when they published 3,000 copies of Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson and sold out in less than a year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Best known for its hunting boots, which according to a recent report in the Associated Press have ousted Uggs and Crocs as the must-have footwear on college campuses, 100-year-old L.L.Bean has begun hitting the books, hard. The family-owned retailer, which reported net sales of $1.44 billion in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has dismissed volunteer-run libraries as "unsustainable",... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over 100,000 HarperCollins UK ebooks were downloaded on Christmas Day, the publisher has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The year 2011 will go down in the history books as a great year for tablets mostly for Apple?s iPad, however -- not all tablet vendors fared as well as Apple. It'?s not for lack of products that prevented Android tablets from taking any market share away from Apple this year. By our calculation,... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A week after unveiling Google+ pages for brands and businesses, Google has invited a handful of social media management companies to test integration of Google+ in their tools. The six companiesHooteSuite, Buddy Media, Involver, Hearsay Social, Context Optional, and Vitruewill be able to offer... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2011-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House of Canada is experimenting with a different kind of book tour this fall--one that guarantees book sales from every person attending a launch. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York - We asked them for five, and they gave us ten. At the 2011 FOLIO: Show today, Golf Digest associate editor Ashley Mayo and Summit Business Media group editorial director James Green shared some of the best content tools to manage workflow. Heres what made the cut for social media,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Geographic Magazine topped 100,000 paid digital subscribers this past weekend and the magazine's special series on world population, which was collected into one app called "7 Billion", was the number one free app for iPad in iTunes. The 7 Billion app was promoted in Apple's new and... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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