Hay Festival shares €50,000 Asturias Prize with Guadalajara Book Fair

Hay Festival and Mexico's Guadalajara Book Fair have been jointly awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for communication and humanities.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Gottwals Books Tries Franchising

Over the past six years, Georgia-based Gottwals Books has gone from a single used bookstore in the town of Warner Robins to four 3,000 sq. ft. stores, each with 40,000–50,000 books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Bookstores

The Department of Justice and 33 state attorneys general on Friday called for an array of sanctions that they claim will "reset competition to the conditions that existed before the conspiracy." Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century buys book on digital dating

Century's Julia Twaites has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to He... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Does Copyright Make Books Disappear?

A report from the University of Illinois shows that copyright laws have squashed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Creepy Cute: A Beautifully Illustrated Book of Kafka — For Kids

The author's children were so mesmerized by Kafka's strange, macabre tales that he wrote My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents and Giant Bugs, an illustrated, kid-friendly adaptation of three classic Kafka stories.     Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Could Limited-Time Fixed Book Pricing Boost Backlist Sales?

Could limiting the period for fixed book prices give a needed boost to backlist sales by allowing retailers to discount after the initial buying frenzy is over? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edouard Cointreau Donates 40,000 Cookbooks to Unique Library

Edouard Cointreau, founder of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, has donated his vast library to Paris-Rungis, which has been designated a City of Gastronomy. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Study: Sharing Twice as Likely to Happen on Mobile Devices than Desktops

A study conducted by ShareThis found that mobile devices are much more popular than desktops for sharing content. ShareThis tracked social activity across 2.4 million sites in its network, and found that consumers are nearly twice as likely to click and share content through mobile devices... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan.     Continue reading at The Atlantic

[ The Atlantic | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sloppy books at Barnes & Noble?

Barnes & Noble Inc., the struggling bookseller, reported "material weakness" in its accounting and restated three years of financial results. Investors seemed alarmed by more bad news from the unprofitable retailer whose chief executive stepped aside earlier this month and they bid down its... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10,000 Publishing People at Work: South Korea’s Paju Bookcity

South Korea's Paju Bookcity is unique in the world: home to some 200 publishing companies and 10,000 publishing professionals, mere miles from the North Korea border. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Are Amazon's new book discounts a 'declaration of war'?

The online bookseller had dropped prices on some of its top-selling hardcovers, as much as 64% off retail.Bargain book shoppers must have been pleased looking at Amazon's bestseller list this weekend: The online bookseller had dropped prices on some of its top-selling hardcovers, as much as 64%... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Wet and the Dry' is a nuanced cocktail of a book

Lawrence Osborne's 'The Wet and the Dry' is a paean to drinking, a travelogue unfolding largely through the Islamic states of the Middle East and a memoir of sorts."He who makes a beast of himself," Samuel Johnson famously observed, "gets rid of the pain of being a man." His subject is, of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: How to Make the Perfect Comic Book TV Show

As the nation's geeks and nerds pack away their spandex and cardboard cosplay costumes (until October's New York Comic-Con of course) staff writer and office comic book aficionado Sam Thielman explains who should be TV's next smash hit superheroes.     Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookVibe Turns Twitter Data into Book Discovery Tool

BookVibe allows users to search their tweets and extract the books that are being discussed by the people they follow on Twitter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Second cookbook festival for Chorleywood

Random House and the Chorleywood Bookshop in Hertfordshire are to run a cookery book festival for... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced

The 2013 longlist of fiction for the Man Booker Prize will surprise and intrigue in equal measure. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner on October 15. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker Prize long list includes writers Colum McCann, Tash Aw

While some books on this year's Man Booker prize long list have gotten buzz here in the US, none of them compare (so far) with the success of last year's winner, Hilary Mantel's 'Bring Up the Bodies.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cuckoo's Calling sales soar 41,000%

Sales of J K Rowling's pseudonymous novel, The Cuckoo's Calling (Little, Brown), rocketed... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Country: Now Opening New Territory

Porter Anderson interviews Book Country's Molly Barton and Brandi Larsen as the Penguin Random House site relaunches with new features for author-members. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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