Digital Bestseller Lists: Secret Family is a winning formula

Ali Mercer’s His Secret Family climbed two places to swipe the Bookstat E-Book number one for the first time, for the week ending 22nd February. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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The Perfect Secret Post-Soviet Graphic Novel

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital marketing unravelled

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boy and a Bear wins debut book award

Author Dave Shelton and editor David Fickling win this year's Branford Boase Award, with Shelton's illustrated tale A Boy and a Bear in a Boat. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PC World magazine ends print version -- will focus on digital

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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Shelton and Fickling win Branford Boase

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Secrets of shoestring campaigns revealed 

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Omnipress Launches New Digital Publishing Platform Using Atex Web CMS Technology

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anna Stothard novel searches for secrets in Venice Beach

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[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sandberg campaign wins PPC/Waterstone's Award

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House dominates bestseller charts

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Libraries will release a "Top 10" recommendation list starting this fall

A list titled LibraryReads will be created monthly by libraries all over the country, compiling 10 picks that staff members would choose for the reading public. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Genre Fiction and Digital Publishing: A Marriage Made in Heaven

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Wins a Round in Book-Scanning Suit

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the approval of a class of authors in a long-running lawsuit against Google Inc. over its efforts to electronically scan millions of books from public and university libraries in order to make them available online. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Launches Digital Subscriptions for The Sydney Morning Heald and The Age

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Small Publishers’ Catalogue Offers Listing of African Publishers and More

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NBCUniversal Taps Lion Forge Comics to Develop Digital Comic Books Based on Beloved 80s TV Shows

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Verse novel wins debut book award

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[ BBC News | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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