French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has unveiled part of the government’s... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Figures show the vast majority of authors, both traditionally and self-published, are struggling to make a living from their workThe publishing industry has never been so sharply divided. In the week when the erotica writer Sylvia Day signed a staggering eight-figure two-book deal with St... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cold Comfort Farm author left two books unpublished on her death, says daughterThe novelist Stella Gibbons, who delighted a generation of girls with her rural satire Cold Comfort Farm, left behind two unpublished novels – including a ghost story – when she died in 1989, her family revealed this... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Michael Rosen has said sex in teenage fiction can help young people deal with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New 'intellectually credible' self-improvement books set to outsell celebrity biographies in 2014Sir Alex Ferguson may have the coveted Christmas number one spot with the record-breaking sales of his memoir, My Autobiography. But not even celebrity memoirs are likely to match the publishing... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Paris Commercial Court has approved the purchase of 11 of the 52 bookshops in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If Jackie French gets her way the nation's children's books will be a lot stickier and messier. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is releasing 700 French comics in the North American marketplace. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you've bought quite a library of Kindle books for yourself, you might have a chore scrolling through the lot to find the one you want. Thankfully for Android users, you can now organize your reading material into Collections with a new Kindle app ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The save-it-for-later software service Pocket has released a list of the "best" content from 2013. Pocket's 10 million users saved more than 450 million items (from articles and videos to memes and gifs) from across the Web this year, and Pocket looked at which were saved most, as well as which... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three new bookshops have opened in the run-up to Christmas hoping to capitalise on the buoyant... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Co. took a key step in the planned spinoff of its publishing business on Monday, filing a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jennifer Brenninger of the Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pa., talks about several books she's enjoying handselling during the holiday season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Impress Project aims to attract newspapers and publishers that want a regulator 'independent of owners and politicians'The former editor of the Sunday Times, Sir Harold Evans, is backing an initiative to set up a press regulator to rival the body being launched by the publishers of the Sun,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, which topped book charts across Europe, set for English publication in 2014A literary thriller that has sold almost a million copies in France and has knocked Dan Brown's Inferno off the top of bestseller lists across Europe this summer, will be... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New, fully-illustrated edition of JK Rowling's novels will see artist Jim Kay reimagining the entire Potter universe• Q&A: illustrator Jim Kay on the 'brain-freezing terror' of reimagining Harry PotterJK Rowling's bestselling boy wizard is due for a makeover, with the launch of award-winning... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The top three bestselling annuals in 2013 are growing year on year both in terms of value and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Figures from world's biggest bookseller trumpeted as sign of how self-publishing and smaller labels are changing the industryAs many as a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers, according to data revealed at a trade presentation by the retailer.A chart... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chancellor's measures to help film business likely to encourage more Hollywood studios to use British post-production facilitiesThe UK's film special effects industry has received a shot in the arm with the government announcing plans to make it easier for Hollywood studios to qualify for UK tax... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's reading culture was destroyed, but over the past five years it has returned with the help of a revitalized publishing industry. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is testing drones called "Octocopters" which could potentially deliver customers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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