Harvill Secker switches to Plan D

Harvill Secker has acquired rights to a thriller imagining a world where the Berlin Wall had... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Further Losses at Quercus As Integration Plan Is Finalized

Following consultation, there has been a second wave of redundancies at U.K.-based house, Quercus. The cuts have resulted in a staff of roughly 40 people. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier looking to acquire, plans fast growth

Bonnier Publishing is on the scout to acquire other publishing companies as it seeks to double... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Religion Update 2014: Software Takes Center Stage in Multiplatform Plans

Software companies, once on the periphery of Christian book publishing, find themselves increasingly taking center stage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook’s Plan to Make Apps Work Like Webpages Gathers Momentum

Facebook says that hundreds of online companies have adopted its plan to let mobile apps operate more like the world wide web, seamlessly linking together in much the same way that pages do inside your web browser. According to Facebook’s Vijay Shankar, these companies have published over 3... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette, Ingram Drop Plans to Buy Perseus

The planned acquisition of Perseus, by Hachette Book Group and Ingram, is off. David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus, said that, despite much effort from all three parties, an agreement could not be be reached on "everything necessary" to close the deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Agent Storm' is planned as a movie

The memoir of an Al Qaeda double agent will be released this August and 'Captain Phillips' helmer Paul Greengrass could direct the film adaptation. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abrams ComicArts Plans 'Peanuts' Tribute, New Backderf Title

Abrams ComicArts will publish 'The Art of Peanuts in' Fall 2015 in conjunction with a new Peanuts feature film, in addition to 'Trashed,' a new book by Derf Backderf ('My Friend Dahmer') on garbage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling plans crime book spree

JK Rowling's crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith will eventually outnumber her Harry Potter books, she reveals. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New material planned for Alex Ferguson paperback

Sir Alex Ferguson is to write additional material covering events at Manchester United since his... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zane, Verge Entertainment Plan Transmedia Projects

Zane, bestselling erotica author, entrepreneur and publisher of S&S/Atria’s Strebor Books imprint, is teaming up with Verge Entertainment, a New York City transmedia production house founded by Shawn Martinbrough, Joe Illidge and Milo Stone. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egyptian statue plans 'catastrophic'

Comic book writer Alan Moore says a council's plans to sell a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue valued at about £6m "could only be catastrophic". Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Here Are All the Other Experiments Facebook Plans to Run on You

Facebook and two outside social scientists recently published a scientific paper in which they revealed that they had manipulated users’ news feeds to tweak their emotions. Since then, there has been a growing debate over the ethics and practice of Facebook experimenting on its users, as... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Middle Eastern online bookseller plans to create a banned books section

Ala Alsallal, founder of the website Jamalon, says there will be an entire section on the website devoted to selling banned books. Alsallal hopes to make banning books so pointless that governments stop doing so. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N Plans Return to Digital Audiobooks

Following the notice B&N sent to customers that it is shutting down its downloadable audio section, a spokesperson for the retailer told PW the company plans to re-enter the market at some point in the future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Beginners Switches Distribution to Red Wheel/Weiser

For Beginners, a publisher specializing in illustrated nonfiction, is switching its distribution from Random House Publisher Services to Red Wheel/Weiser effective April 1, 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DC, Warner Bros. Unveil Batman’s 75th Anniversary Plans

DC Entertainment has announced plans for a year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of Batman, the iconic Golden Age comic book character that debuted in 1939 and helped launch the superhero genre. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Publishing UK plans 500 titles this year

Amazon Publishing plans to release more than 500 titles in the UK this year, the company's... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Court Approves Cengage Reorg Plan

The bankruptcy court overseeing Cengage Learning’s Chapter 11 proceedings has approved the company’s plan of reorganization. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Campaigners plan protest for Women's Library reopening

Campaigners are planning to picket the re-opening of the Women's Library tonight (12th March... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'PW,' 'BookBrunch' Plan London Show Dailies

PW and the U.K.’s BookBrunch are once again teaming up to produce three print Show Dailies for the London Book Fair as well as a supplement focused on the fair’s digital events. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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