Canongate has promoted Joanna Lord to the newly-created position of audio and online sales manager and will recruit an assistant into another new role, as part of its "increased focus" on audio. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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On September 16, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, in its 20th year, released the longlist for this year’s prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to AAP’s monthly StatShot report, adult ebooks rose only 4.8% in the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, hitting $647.7 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The USA's IndieBound initiative to promote book purchases from local independent bookstores has prompted similar campaigns in the UK, Germany, and Holland. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles' Siôn Hamilton, general manager at the Charing Cross Road store, has been... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James McBride takes liberties as he visits the story of white abolitionist John Brown through the eyes of a young slave in 'The Good Lord Bird.'John Brown, the white abolitionist who sought to free black slaves with the barrel of a gun, is a recurring character in American literature. He's one... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Veteran filmmaker Nicolas Roeg has published a book of memoirs, featuring insights from a career spanning six decades. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sue Armstrong of Conville & Walsh has been promoted to the position of senior agent.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has signed world rights to a new novel, Animals, by Emma Jane Unsworth. Publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Watkins Publishing has promoted Grace Cheetham to the role of publisher, food and drink, for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hoping to strengthen its services for mobile users, Facebook has created a new program to encourage third-party developers to build games that will run on the company's mobile clients.The new pilot program, called Facebook Mobile Games Publishing, will assist selected game development shops in... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A maximalist promo site for Jobs. When Simon & Schuster published Steve Jobs, the simple black and white cover photo helped turn Walter Isaacson’s biography into one of the best-selling books of all time. Now the filmmakers behind the movie Jobs, have taken the opposite approach to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kindle Singles store, according to its editor David Blum, is “like a bookstore where the manager also edits the books.” Blum is that manager-editor, and under his guidance the store has grown to feature nearly 400 works since launching in January 2011. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you ask publishing CTOs what their technology priorities are, they’re likely to tell you that they’re centered around content development and distribution. How do I know that? Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury is promoting its forthcoming title Crown of Midnight by creating a digital story... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bob Lord may be leaving Publicis Groupe's Razorfish to run AOL Networks but, given a new partnership between Publicis Groupe and AOL, his ties to his former employer will remain strong. On Aug. 1, Lord, the outgoing CEO of Razorfish, starts as CEO of AOL Networks, the company's programmatic ad... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK m.d. and c.e.o. Ian Chapman has been promoted to chief executive and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print media is dying; some may argue it is already dead. With the launch of the iPad and the current industry trend of tablet media consumption, consumers don’t want to clutter their homes with stacks of paper magazines and newspapers. Not to mention, there is the trend of "going green" which is... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate is to launch a campaign in praise of letter writing, after signing two new books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jennie Bristow, associate fellow at the University of Kent, says grown-ups read children's books because they feel 'disenchanted with adult culture'. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Inc. FB -3.51% is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tail ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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