The columnist and podcaster’s How to Live When You Could Be Dead is out in August heads the bestsellers listPre-orders of Deborah James’s second book have soared within days of it becoming available. The podcast host’s memoir-cum-self-help volume is topping the Amazon UK bestsellers list, ahead of Richard Osman’s popular crime novel The Man Who Died Twice.The publication of How to Live When You Could Be Dead was brought forward this week, after the news that the author hasn’t long to live. It will now come out in August, rather than January next year, as first planned. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Amazon.com Inc. is offering authors caught up in its dispute with Hachette Book Group all proceeds from the sale of any digital book, seeking to bypass the publisher and appeal directly to writers.Amazon sent a letter to authors, including Douglas Preston, proposing to extract them from the spat... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Smashwords' annual survey, CEO Mark Coker says that indie ebooks selling for $2.99-$3.99 earn as much for their authors as conventionally published ebooks selling for $7.99 or more, but generate "triple the readership." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some 'old guard' authors are joining forces in a letter criticizing Amazon, even as a cluster of self-published authors is rallying around Amazon, charging that traditional publishers like Hachette mistreat authors and readers. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has signed a debut novel from the c.e.o. of The Book People, Seni Glaister. Clare... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alejandro Jodorowsky's film 'The Dance of Reality' is based on his unorthodox autobiography; Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham offer imperfectly wise stories and parables Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The use of social media and consumer insight do not "replace our gut instinct", The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five-year-old Lydia Port-Burke has self-published a fairy tale now available in the UK. Proceeds for the book will go to BBC Children in Need. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As things stand, Hachette is making ebook discounts impossible, and almost everybody else stands to lose, writes Hugh HoweyNews: New Amazon terms amount to 'assisted suicide' for book industry, experts claimHow much should an ebook cost? And how should that money be split? These two questions... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some 'old guard' authors are joining forces in a letter criticizing Amazon, even as a cluster of self-published authors is rallying around Amazon, charging that traditional publishers like Hachette mistreat authors and readers. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The judges have winnowed down 10,000 entries to the top five. Consumers vote on the grand prize winner from today through July 18. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rachel Bressler has been hired as editorial director at Penguin Random House's paperback imprint, Plume. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books division has entered into a co-publishing agreement with Omnific Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hong Kong Book Fair, now in its 25th year, remains firmly focused on the Chinese-language titles, but has begun to add professional elements and global authors. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the gulf between Amazon and Hachette widens in their publisher-versus-retailer heavyweight fight, frustrated authors caught in the middle have begun to weigh in—some in better spirits than others. In the spoof video above, Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell meets with Amazon's vice president of... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Speakers from YouTube and Buzzfeed will join representatives from the trade at today’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monitor contributor Danny Heitman enjoys reading a children's book series about a wealthy elephant named Uncle to his son. What's surprising about that? His son is a teenager. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin is donating a copy of Jeremy Paxman’s history of the First World War to every... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hard on the heels of his 2014 Kate Greenaway award, Jon Klassen has picked up a second UK... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One one side are established authors including Stephen King, John Grisham and James Patterson. On the other side are self-published authors. They're taking sides in the weeks-old dispute between Amazon.com Inc. and Hachette Book Group. King, Grisham and Patterson have signed their names to a... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Young adult novels reigned over the top halves of the print and Kindle bestseller lists for the first six months of the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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