Bertelsmann has reported its highest revenues in seven years, at €11.82bn for the first nine months of 2014, up 4.3% year-on-year from €11.33bn, with the formation of Penguin Random House among factors contributing "significantly" to the increase. Operating EBITDA was €1.48bn to the end of September 2014, compared to €1.46bn the previous year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#3% year-on-year
#operating ebitda
Local newspaper publisher reports operating profits down 4.3% to £27m in first half to 3 July, but digital audience grows by more than 20%Johnston Press has said it has seen an improvement in trading since issuing a warning to investors that sent its shares tumbling last month, although ad... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#ad revenue
#profit warning
#7% year
Barnes & Noble Education, the company which was officially spun off from B&N in August, reported first quarter revenues of $239 million for BNE, an increase of $13.3 million (or 5.9%) over the same period a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#quarter revenues
#$239 million
PW lists five books that examine racial reconciliation in the U.S. amidst the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#one-year anniversary
#michael brown
Revenues for Simon and Schuster's global operations dropped 5.7% year on year in the second quarter of 2015, its parent company CBS has reported. The total for the quarter stood at $199m, a drop of $12m. However operating income was $25m, up 9% from $23m in the second quarter of 2014, with CBS... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#revenue decline
#operating income
#7% year
The New York Times Co. posted second-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates after the publisher cut expenses faster than revenue declined.Earnings excluding some items were 13 cents a share, the New York-based company said in a statement. That compares with the 11-cent average of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#fell short
Amazon has released a list of its best-selling Kindle books over the last five years in the UK, with Fifty Shades writer EL James topping the ebook chart. Amazon has released the data to mark five years today (5th August) since it opened the Kindle Store in the UK. EL James’ original Fifty... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#el james
#kindle store
#ebook chart
In a deal that bears striking similarities to ones that Amazon has crafted with Purdue and UMass Amherst over the past year, virtual textbook competitor eCampus.com has negotiated a $2.15 million contract with UWM. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
A decline in Hachette's 2015 half year sales reflect continuing challenges from a slowdown in ebook sales stemming from its 2014 battle with Amazon over sales terms. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#sales terms
Debut author Sarah Hilary has scooped the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for Someone Else’s Skin (Headline). Hilary was presented with the award by title sponsor Simon Theakston and broadcaster Mark Lawson at the opening night of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#irish authors
#stiff competition
#16th july
#opening night
#skin headline
#peculier crime
Resources to be redirected to faster-moving digital and daily products. The post National Journal Magazine to Cease Publication By Year’s End appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#cease publication
Blackwell’s has named Owen Jones’s The Establishment (Penguin) as its Book of the Year 2015. The company’s employees were asked to vote for their winner from a shortlist of six, namely Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (Profile Books), Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing (Penguin), The Buried Giant by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#missing penguin
#emma healey
#atul gawande
Navigating the transition from publisher to multimedia content company. The post How The Enthusiast Network is Diversifying Its Revenue appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#enthusiast network
#revenue appeared
In the past year Kevin Gentzel has gone from newspapers to digital media and back again.After hopping from The Washington Post to Yahoo last year, Mr. Gentzel has landed at Gannett as the newspaper company's chief revenue officer and will report to the company's president of domestic publishing... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#digital business
#late june
#digital sites
#usa today
#longer rely
#ad revenue
Etgar Keret presents his memoir: a series of raw and witty stories that document seven years of a father-son relationship. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Ovum’s new Digital Consumer Publishing Forecast is published tomorrow. It takes a five year view at how this sector will change. Ahead of publication, Ovum analyst Charlotte Miller gives TheMediaBriefing an exclusive look at some of t ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#published tomorrow
#publishing industry
Felicity Wood talks to the head honchos of the ‘Big 4’ to get their thoughts on how 2015 has gone so far and what is to be expected in the second half Anthony Forbes Watson, m.d of Pan Macmillan Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#pan macmillan
Comic-Con may still be a hotbed of comic book and graphic novel revelry, but the tastes of the genre aficionado have shifted since the first days of the San Diego gathering in the 1970s. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#comic book
The Guardian is exclusively publishing the first chapter of Harper Lee’s hotly anticipated companion novel to To Kill a MockingbirdRead the first chapterListen to an extract read by Reese WitherspoonFollow all the live commentary and reactionJean Louise Finch – beloved heroine of one of the most... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
With the third China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair four months away, the fair organizers have been busy expanding the program to reflect a growing Chinese market for international titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#international titles
#book fair
#shanghai children
An exploration of the landscape around a remote Cornish farmhouse, a study of the role of lemons in the Italian cultural landscape, and an account of life below deck on giant container ships are among the books shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year shortlist. Stanfords... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#travel writing
#prize money
#books shortlisted
#year prize
#year shortlist