Editions Fayard will publish Barack and Michelle Obama’s memoirs in the French language, chairman and c.e.o. Sophie de Closets has announced Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French publishers’ net income fell by 1.3% last year to €2,652m from €2,687m in 2013, although the picture is “encouraging” for the first half of this year, the book trade publication Livres Hebdo has reported. This was the fourth year running showing a decline, even though the drop was less... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Julie Pickford has written a diary novel, but it will focus on her life in 1976, rather than her time working with ex-BBC chat-show hostFirst it was Kay Burley, then former TV producer and Channel 4 and Sky exec Jacquie Lawrence publishing a novel, now Monkey hears another telly type has taken... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph will release an autobiography by footballer Steven Gerrard this autumn. The book, called Steven Gerrard: My Story, promises to be an “intimate and revelatory account” of Gerrard’s career. Gerrard joined Liverpool at the age of eight and went on to play more than 700 games for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author of The Caine Mutiny will look back on his century of experience in Sailor and FiddlerThere can’t be many centenarians who can celebrate their birthday by raising a glass to a new professional departure, but Herman Wouk – 100 on Wednesday, 27 May – is about to publish his first memoir.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Things are changing in U.S. comics and French comics publishers are meeting in New York to discuss the U.S. market and look for ways to stoke demand for French graphic novels in North America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matthew De Abaitua’s Self & I covers the six-month period he spent reading, drinking and rolling ‘special cigarettes’ as assistant to the Booker-shortlisted author in the early 1990sFrom an interview involving shooting whisky bottles and smoking “special” cigarettes to an attempt to take a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A concert pianist wins a legal battle to publish a book giving detail of sexual abuse he experienced as a child. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers in the US including Hachette Book Group, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are making $250m (£163m) in free ebooks available to low-income students as part of a scheme announced today (30th April) by President Obama. The new ebook commitments, to cover a three-year... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A sequel to Nelson Mandela's 1995 autobiography Long Walk to Freedom is to be published next year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Amazon Publishing France had hired its first employee, Clément Monjou, who will start by publishing a pair of translations under the Crossing imprint. The post Amazon Publishing France: How Will the French Respond? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press is to publish the memoir of Chrissie Hynde, frontwoman of The Pretenders, acquired in a “major deal”. Publisher and deputy m.d. Jake Lingwood bought world English and translation rights, excluding North America, while Gerry Howard, v.p., executive editor at Doubleday, Penguin Random... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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University of Queensland Press denies author Gavin King’s allegation the book was rejected because Newman’s government axed the Premier’s Literary AwardsThe University of Queensland Press has rejected Campbell Newman’s proposed tell-all memoir.The book’s author, Gavin King, claimed UQP knocked... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin has acquired the memoir of young transgender activist Paris Lees. The book, which is as yet untitled, is “an original literary endeavour throwing light on feminism, sexuality, upbringing and class”, said the publisher. Helen Conford, publishing director at Penguin Press, acquired the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A reinforced police guard has been installed at the offices of Flammarion, publisher of Michel Houellebecq's latest novel Soumission (Submission), according to the website of French daily Le Parisien. The novel, published in France today (7th January), is set in 2022 and tells of a new Muslim... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline is to publish a special fan edition of musician Frank Turner’s touring memoir The Road Beneath My Feet. The publisher has teamed up with PledgeMusic, a direct-to-fan music platform, to offer the £30 hardback. Fans are being asked to provide their own personal reminiscences of seeing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE) has warned its members that France may raise VAT on ebooks from 5.5% to the standard 20% during the first half of next year to avoid a fine of several million euros from the European Court of Justice, according to the trade... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeremy Paxman signs a three-book deal which will detail his 42-year career at the BBC. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French digital book watchdog Groupement pour le Développement du Livre Numérique (GLN) has identified at least 20 French publishers whose books are being offered to Scribd subscribers without the agreement of the authors or publishers, according to GLN media spokesperson Elizabeth Sutton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amis's French and German publishers passed on his novel about the Holocaust, but another French company will be releasing the book and Amis's agent said there will most likely be a new German publisher that is willing to publish it. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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