From cod to colouring, fashions come and go in books. What do they tell us about our culture, and can we predict what’s next? After the long, wet winter, the season is finally on the turn. I know this partly because the instinct to hunker down in a nest of books is giving way to an urge to purge. As the weak spring sunshine straggles through the dust motes, it inevitably lands on heaps of unsorted books – among them eight volumes of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook.I’ve written before about my problems with literary decluttering. But who in their right mind would want to keep eight copies of a directory that barely changes from year to year except for the entries that are out of date? Well – sigh! – me. And here’s why. Many volumes ago, I was asked to write an essay on a literary editor’s life for this sturdy compendium of information for people aspiring to a writing career. While extolling the value of making lists, I wrote that it helped to spot the signs of new publishing trends. Related: Book festivals are worth far more than fees | Claire Armitstead Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How to diversify platform distribution in the wake of Facebook's news-feed changes, what more can be done to throttle ad fraud, and the GDPR are all top of mind for publishers attending Digiday's Publishing Summit Europe. The post ‘Twitter is having a comeback’: What’s on the minds of European... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As fewer Americans identify as religious or spiritual, more books champion secular views while other more Christian authors battle back by asserting Biblical truth. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder is publishing a memoir and guide to "Sisu", the Finnish approach to wellbeing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The observations made by these diverse publishers during at the first Children's Books Salon in New York speak to their common faith in the social power of books. The post Viewpoints From the Children’s Books Salon: Trends, Concerns, and Publishing Pride appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Founded in 2009, OR was designed to be a new kind of publisher with a new kind of business model. Almost a decade later, that's still mostly true. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TK publishers tell us where they'll focus their initiatives in the year ahead, and the investments that will be needed to support them. The post Trend-Spotting: Where Publishers Will Prioritize Their Investing in 2018 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 2015, BuzzFeed tasked five employees with a single objective: Craft the perfect viral Facebook video. To ensure maximum share-ability, such a video had to be short — no more than 40 seconds long — and enjoyable either with or without sound as users scrolled their feeds. The team found its... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Black & White Publishing has claimed to have signed the first book on "Scottish hygge". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From Brazil, Norway, Canada, the UK, Lebanon, and Turkey, we gather observations from Guadalajara International Book Fair's Rights Exchange fellows. The post Comparing Trends in Children’s Publishing at Guadalajara’s International Rights Exchange appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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During town hall-style meetings and working groups, attendees identified the biggest issues on their minds, including GDPR enforcement worries and social media platforms. The post On the minds of European publishers: Platform pushback, GDPR enforcement and ad fraud appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Their job is so much more difficult than it was two years ago," said one publishing executive. The post Inside the Facebook team that’s charged with keeping publishers happy appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) takes place in Los Angeles June 13 through 15, and as the excitement builds, Facebook revealed the top trending video games and publishers on its platform leading into the show. The top trending publishers and video games were those that experienced the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost half the companies on our annual ranking of fast-growing independent publishers posted triple-digit gains between 2014 and 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crowdsourced news site Blasting News has built big numbers by paying 1,000 Facebook closed-group owners to distribute content within their groups. The post How one viral publisher uses Facebook groups to grow big numbers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's rare that you can ask publishers en masse what’s on their minds. But that’s precisely what we were able to do this week. The post ‘Fear and loathing in Lisboa’: What’s on the minds of European publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline is publishing a foodies' cookbook catering to gut health, Food for a Happy Gut: recipes to calm, nourish and heal by nutritionist Naomi Devlin. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brit + Co and Mindbodygreen are seeing early success in using Facebook Live to drive people to pay for how-to courses. Brit + Co’s recent Facebook Live with a handlettering expert drove 180 pre-registrations for its class -- four times the usual average. Meanwhile, Mindbodygreen has been hosting... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The second annual Global Kids Connect conference, held on December 8 in New York, brought together members of the book industryto discuss the future of global children’s publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nonprofit indie press Transit Books is dedicated to publishing international literature and works-in-translation. Its inaugural list hits in 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audio is a real “growing force” but the formulaic nature of publishing is “crippling” for the industry, the Society of Young Publishers (SYP) Conference has heard. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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