Danny Caine Sells the Raven Book Store to Co-Owners

Caine, one of the country’s best-known independent booksellers and a prominent critic of Amazon, is selling his majority shares in the Lawrence, Kans., institution to a trio who are currently minority co-owners. The sale will take effect January 1. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Slate to Begin a Monthly Review of Books

The Web magazine will publish an expanded look at books on the first Saturday of each month, as stand-alone book review sections in newspapers have dwindled. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chorion sells Christie stake to Acorn

Media content group Chorion has sold its 64% stake in the Agatha Christie estate to US media... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book readers are buying plenty – but not in bookstores

The new study by Book Industry Study Group says ebook consumers are buying more books – both print and electronic – but they’re buying mostly online and via in-app purchasing. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Heroes join World Book Day party

Half a million children in 21 countries are joining top children's authors in events to celebrate World Book Day. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Selling Social Media

As an element of a marketer’s branding strategy, social media is huge. Some publishers are finding ways to leverage their social graph as a part of their overall marketing package offers to advertising clients. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to sell Bloomsbury Verlag GmbH

Bloomsbury is selling its German subsidiary Bloomsbury Verlag GmbH to a subsidiary of Swedish... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book production overtakes hardbacks in 2011

E-book production overtook hardback output in 2011 for the first time, as the number of new... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC Books acquires Hom and Huang

BBC Books has acquired a title by chefs Ken Hom and Ching-He Huang, both Chinese food specialists... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Printed books fall £2.8m as kids go back to school

Printed book sales slumped 11% last week as children returned to school and adults to work... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's book awards finalists annouced

Emerging authors and illustrators have made every category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards this year, alongside their better known counterparts. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review: 'By Blood' by Ellen Ullman

A creepy professor eavesdrops on a woman's therapy sessions and becomes obsessed with her.By Blood Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review: 'Zona' by Geoff Dyer

With care and craft, the novelist and essayist seeks to summarize Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 art film 'Stalker,' finding elements that will keep the non- cinéaste onboard.Zona Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taking E-books To the Next Level

Despite technological petting zoos, QR codes on shelf-talkers linked to bookstores’ Web sites, and in-store displays of physical books with signage reminding readers that they can also buy e-editions, only a handful of independents are making more than about $100 or so on ebook sales a month. To... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Square One’s Personal Mission Drives New Cancer Book

For Square One Publishers’ founder Rudy Shur, Beyond the Magic Bullet—The Anti-Cancer Cocktail: A New Approach to Beating Cancer, which his company released earlier this month, is the culmination of a three-year personal connection he forged with the book’s author, Dr. Raymond Chang. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review: 'The Flame Alphabet' by Ben Marcus

The death of language is explored via plague-carrying children and their horror-struck parents in a wildly inventive tale by Ben Marcus.Spend too much time with 24-hour news networks and it's easy to feel that exposure to that much talk can make you sick. Taking the idea a few steps further,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon takes a company's ebooks out of stores after disagreement

When the Independent Publishers Group couldn't come to terms with Amazon, the bookselling giant took 5,000 IPG titles out of their Kindle ebook store. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an age of Kindles, Harcourt Bindery sticks to tried-and-true book methods

The Charlestown, Mass. bindery still makes books by hand, using a 19th-century production model. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rare US comic books fetch $3.5m

A collection of early comic books - including those featuring the debuts of Batman and Superman - is sold for $3.5m (£2.2m) at auction in New York. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Colbert to pen children's book

and Matthew Flamm - Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert, who has more time on his hands now that he's no longer running for president, will publish his first children's book in May, his publisher, Grand Central Publishing, announced on Tuesday. Viewers of The Colbert Report got the word early... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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