Big Green Bookshop co-owner Simon Key came face to face with presenter Piers Morgan on ITV this morning (26th June) - months after the pair had a heated Twitter feud over the merits of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social media aggregation site Storify debuted a major aesthetic refresh to its Web site on Tuesday morning, revamping the main homepage and tweaking the site's search tools to better surface the most relevant media among the items from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others that are published... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#tuesday morning
#user interface
#$2 million
#khosla ventures
A debut novel from South Africa has joined the shortlist for this year's Green Carnation... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#green carnation
#south africa
Naval book publisher Maritime Books has opened its first bookshop in the Historic Dockyard in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
By Alex Mutter Irish book retailer Eason opened a virtual, mobile bookshop at Connolly Station in Dublin on Monday, the Silicon Republic reports. The bookshop’s ... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#mobile bookshop
A lack of trained professionals, of distribution channels for books, of good infrastructure, and piracy plague Indian publishers, but a dialogue for change has begun. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#big issues
#indian publishing
#distribution channels
More Americans are discovering what I did, after buying the original iPad more than two years ago: Reading ebooks, magazines and newspapers on a tablet is an immersive experience and often much more satisfying than print. Today, comScore says that in August, two out of every five US tablet... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#reading ebooks
#immersive experience
In splitting News Corp. into two companies, Rupert Murdoch is creating something he hasn't had in years: an Australian media company. By some measures, the publishing company to emerge from the division of News Corp. sometime next year will have ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publishing spinoff
#rupert murdoch
Amazon.com has begun telling customers that they may be eligible to receive a refund on ebooks... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#big win
Earlier this week, Random House shelled out more than $3.5 million for Lena Dunham’s first book, Not That Kind of Girl. She has an amazing résumé for anyone, let alone a 26-year-old, having directed two feature films and scored four Emmy nominations for her TV show, HBO’s Girls. But what makes... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#big thing
#lena dunham
#emmy nominations
#tv show
#track record
Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has grown considerably since launching in the US, and it looks like the company's finally decided it was time to let some other countries in on the service as well. It announced today that Amazon Prime members in the UK, Germany and France would all have... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#announced today
#lending library
#kindle owners
#grown considerably
#local languages
After months of hype, the first adult novel from J.K. Rowling debuted with the third biggest print opening of 2012. At outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, The Casual Vacancy sold 156,679 copies in its first week—enough to place it behind only No Easy Day by Mark Owen (254,046 copies) and Fifty... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#casual vacancy
#outlets tracked
#nielsen bookscan
#easy day
#biggest debut
Barnes & Noble will release its self-publishing platform PubIt in the UK following the launch... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#barnes noble
The Edinburgh Bookshop is changing hands after five years so that founders Vanessa and Malcolm... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#edinburgh bookshop
#changing hands
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the first biography of Roger Bushell, better known as "... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hodder stoughton
E L James enthusiasts began queuing outside Waterstones’ flagship Piccadilly store from 8am... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Singularity & Co aims to rescue near-extinct 20th century sci-fi titles to ensure they still exist in the next one. Established from a Kickstarter campaign, the small team has already digitized and published A Plunge Into Space and The Torch, both with new cover art, while its third title... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#cover art
#ars technica
#reviving interest
#email thiscomments
Hachette US, HarperCollins US and Simon & Schuster US have agreed to pay out a total of more... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#simon schuster
A 42-year-old bookshop in Hackney is under threat of closure, with the council taking the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#council taking
A 42-year-old bookshop in Hackney is under threat of closure, with the council taking the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#council taking
Templar is launching Sweet Venom, a young adult trilogy by Tera Lynn Childs, with a reader... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |