The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, has revealed the regional shortlists for the 2019 Independent Bookshop of the Year, sponsored by Gardners Books. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No two book clubbers had the same impression---we range from frustration to elation, united only by a eagerness to discuss. The post WIRED Book Club: Frustration! Elation! We Conclude The Name of the Wind appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The most interesting début on the Weekly E-Book Ranking is perhaps human rights activist and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel’s Night (Penguin Modern Classics). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From accounts of near-death expriences to ways of talking to kids about death, a wave of new books offer for the dying, the grieving, and the questioning. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buster Books, the children’s imprint of Michael O’Mara Books, has launched a free colouring app. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jessie Burton is to pen her first children’s book following success with adults titles The Miniaturist and The Muse. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books UK will publish a series of interactive children’s books based on the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booktrack technology can supply a publisher's digital titles with a customizable movie-like soundtrack as well as sound effects. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles is partnering with Town Hall and Symphony Hall in Birmingham to bring authors to a combined potential audience of 2,800 people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Small business owners are getting a new feature tailored just for them in Microsoft Office 365 -- a full-service system for scheduling appointments for their services over the internet.Microsoft Bookings is a new service that makes it possible for business owners to create their own scheduling... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First Second editorial director Mark Siegel has organized a group of young illustrators to produce the forthcoming graphic novel series, 5 Worlds. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the nation’s largest, Mexico's bookstore chain named for Mahatma Gandhi increasingly depends on non-book sales to stay ahead, according to the company’s marketing manager. The post ‘Wallpaper the Country With Books’: Mexico’s Gandhi Bookstores appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PEN America has announced the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Oral History. The former, which comes with a $75,000 purse, will confer one of the biggest monetary awards in the country. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Accounts show that Amazon paid less tax in the UK in 2015 than a year earlier despite rising UK sales and a change to its accounting methods following the introduction of the so-called Google Tax, The Bookseller can reveal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gavin Eugene Long, the 29-year-old ex-Marine who shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday, killing three, wrote and self-published three books under the name Cosmo Setepenra, which he also used in online forums. The books are a combination of New Age-style jargon, pseudoscience,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has confirmed Boris Johnson's biography "will not be published for the foreseeable future". Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius had been slated for publication in October, coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, but, according to the Daily Mail,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boris Johnson has reportedly backed out of a £500,000 book deal with Hodder & Stoughton to write a biography of William Shakespeare. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Eligible, click the arrow on the player below. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spate of openings of ‘destination’ stores as owners offer drinks, performances and crafts to tempt customers away from Amazon It’s children’s story hour at the Book Nook in Hove and the owner, Vanessa Lewis, is doing a reading of Julia Donaldson’s rhyming picture book The Detective Dog. Related:... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh has come atop a poll of favourite children’s book characters, commissioned by the Reading Agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International New York Times bestselling thriller writer Tami Hoag has signed a two book deal with Trapeze Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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