Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Harper) has boomeranged back into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, claiming a fourth non-consecutive week at the top and displacing Tom Fletcher and Shane Devries’ World Book Day title Brain Freeze (Puffin). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The duopoly is forcing some unlikely partners into bed with each other.Large publishers are hatching new alliances to counter Google and Facebook, the so-called duopoly that's expected to capture 85% of new digital advertising this year in the U.S. and 60% of digital spending, according to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The inaugural Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour was awarded in March. Co-founder and chair of judges Sunny Singh analyses what the 100-plus submissions made to the prize reveal about the publishing industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first morning of Book Expo in New York (Wednesday, 31st May) presented consumer-centric data points from Nielsen, NPD, OverDrive, BookBub, and the Audio Publishers Association. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The South Dakota Historical Society Press is hoping that lightning will strike twice at BookExpo: this year, the small press is promoting "Pioneer Girl Perpectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder," edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, 150 years after Wilder’s birth on February 7, 1867. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Attica Locke—writer and producer of the Fox hit show "Empire"—is also the author of four acclaimed novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams' The World's Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins Children's) has rocketed into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, shifting 58,481 copies for £423,282. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water (Doubleday) has held the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Into the Water (Doubleday) has cannonballed into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, displacing Transworld stablemate Lee Child’s Night School (Bantam). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A first novel that was at the heart of a fierce auction before the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015 lives up to the hype, says Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child's Night School (Bantam) has racked up a third non-consecutive week as the UK Official Top 50 number one, the veteran crime author's joint longest-ever run in the overall top spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today Facebook publishes its Global Government Requests Report, revealing just how many data requests the social network has received from governments around the world. This time around, the report covers the second half of 2016, and it shows a mixed-bag of figures. While the number of items... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK Britons are abandoning the ebook at an alarming rate with sales of consumer titles down almost a fifth last year, as “screen fatigue” helped fuel a five-year high in printed... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent Bookstore Day returns April 29 for a day of reader solidarity, or, in the words of one local participant, Skylight Books, “Today we all bleed indie!” Launched in California in 2014, Independent Bookstore Day has since gone national — this year’s list of participants boasts 458... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Northern California Chick-fil-A franchise is waiting for its cows to come home after thieves absconded with three mascot costumes from a storage shed earlier this week. The shop Tuesday posted news on Facebook of the Sunday night theft from a store in the city of Folsom. The post pleaded with... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child has tussled his way into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a 16th time, with Night School (Bantam) shifting 36,151 copies for £144,387, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen is to chair the judging panel selecting the shortlist for the Laugh Out Loud Awards (the Lollies), run by Scholastic UK, for a second year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ABA and its board made good on its promise to promote diversity in the book industry and launched its premier conference for children's booksellers with a keynote address on hiring for diversity. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This and other surprising stats from around the media industry... The post President Trump Has Been on Over 28 National Magazine Covers in 2017 | By The Numbers appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian Nathan’s Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (HarperCollins) has soared into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, displacing Mary Berry Everyday (BBC) atop both the overall and Hardback Non-Fiction charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams’ Blob (HarperCollins Children's) has held the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a fourth week in a row, the longest run for a World Book Day title since records began. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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