While the ownership of Baker & Taylor may have changed in the past weeks, the story of the two Scottish Fold cats Baker and Taylor, which have come to symbolize the company’s library wholesale division, endures. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrated publisher Thames & Hudson saw a 7.4% revenue increase in the 12 months ending 31st December 2016, although post-tax profits were down by almost 30% in the same time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kristen Roupenian, the author of “Cat Person,” a fiction piece in The New Yorker that became a viral phenomenon, has agreed to a two-book deal. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The debut book from Kristen Roupenian, whose New Yorker short story “Cat Person” went viral far beyond the scope of most short fiction when it was published earlier this month, has been sold to British publisher Jonathan Cape, the Guardian reports. Roupenian's short story collection, “You Know... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following her viral short story hit, Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This has been sold to Cape in the UK, with the US auction said to be topping $1mKristen Roupenian, whose short story about a relationship turned sour, Cat Person, set the internet on fire last week, has sold her debut... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has scooped the debut book from Kristen Roupenian, the author of 'Cat Person', a short story published in the New Yorker this week which went viral and triggered a wave of media coverage. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of print books got off to a slow holiday season start at outlets that report to NPD BookScan: units were 3% lower in the 2017 Thanksgiving week than in the comparable week last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kim Moore has won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her poetry collection The Art of Falling (Seren Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Book Award nominee Carmen Maria Machado thinks the positive response to her short story collection is partly a reaction to the 2016 election. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If the idea of sitting through a personal finance course or reading personal finance book makes your eyes glaze over, then Lillian Karabaic may have a solution for you. It involves cats. It involves indie comic book illustrators. It involves Ziggy Starbudget (her David Bowie-themed alter... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2017-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An 11% increase in the number of print ISBNs issued to self-publishers last year, offset a decline in the number of digital ISBNs issued. In total, 2016 saw an 8% jump in the number of ISBNs issued to self-publishers, over 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has bought world rights in a book about a ‘shepherd cat’ who joined a sheep farm. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK made a profit before tax of £3.76m last year, coming back from a loss the year before, with c.e.o. Ian Chapman telling The Bookseller the company is looking "really strong financially". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At outlets that report to NPD BookScan, unit sales of print books were 1% lower in the week ended Sept. 3, 2017, than in the comparable week in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With sales down in three of the four major publishing segments, unit sales of print books at outlets that report to NPD BookScan were 2% lower in the week ended Aug. 27, 2017, than in the similar week in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laurence King Publishing (LKP) is partnering with Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to create a new series of books and gifts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In February, we ran a listing of the country’s largest publishers ranked by print units sold through outlets that report to NPD BookScan. While that approach has its limitations (it doesn’t include ebook sales or sales at outlets that don’t report to BookScan), it does provide a look at how the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Happened, due out in September, will tell her story of the electoral battle with Donald Trump in ‘a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation’Hillary Clinton has promised that she will be “letting [her] guard down” in the most personal book she has yet written: a memoir... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by $590 million in sales of book-format graphic novels, the combined graphic novel and comics sales in North America grew 5% to $1.085 billion in 2016, according to a joint estimate by industry news sites Comichron and ICv2.com. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The book by former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile will examine the scandals and disputes surrounding last year's presidential election. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From Russia Behind the Headlines: Pushkin may be "everything," but in 2016, reported print runs indicate that Korney Chukovsky won Russian kids' top reads. The post Russia’s 10 Favorite Children’s Books of 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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