Indie Publishers, Booksellers Waiting for CARES Act Relief

As small businesses around the country await funds from the landmark “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,” indie publishers and booksellers are having mixed experiences trying to secure this financial lifeline. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, Sept. 10, 2014

American Academy of Religion recognizes excellence in scholarship; another big hit for Lysa TerKeurst. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French Booksellers Find Fun in Failing to Stock Bestseller

French booksellers have found an amusing way to apologize to their customers for not stocking Valerie Treirweiller’s bestselling tell-all, political revenge memoir. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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The Publishing Education of a Jersey Girl

Lauren Pizza, the quintessential Jersey Girl, turned around a memoir in four months, with boundless energy, the help of SkyHorse Publishing and a few psychics. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Don’t Publishers Fact Check Memoirs More Closely?

Writing for The Atlantic, Kate Newman wonders why memoirs aren't fact-checked more closely and questions whether a lack of resources is really to blame. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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East African Writers Embrace Self-publishing and Promotion

Author Aleya Kassam explains how Kenyan writers are embracing the idea of branding and taking control of their careers. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kenya’s Passionate Publishers Grow in Confidence, Influence

A coterie of aggressive, creative publishing houses are fighting to expand the literary horizons of Kenyans and bring their books to the world. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending September 5, 2014

The unofficial start of the fall season is beginning with a grand reopening of a bookstore under new ownership and the opening of two stores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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B&H Kids Acquires 90 Titles from Standard Publishing

Children’s religion publisher B&H Kids has acquired 90 children’s titles from Standard Publishing, including works by such popular authors as Sally Lloyd Jones and Andy Holmes. The deal also covers series like My Goodnight Bible and The Young Reader’s Bible. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Penguin Publishing Group Takes Shape

Fourteen months after the completion of the Random House–Penguin Group merger, PRH CEO Markus Dohle has created the Penguin Publishing Group, which puts all Penguin adult imprints under Madeline McIntosh, who was named president of the new unit. The move is Dohle’s most aggressive yet in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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GQ's Chris Mitchell Named Vanity Fair Publisher as Conde Changes Keep Coming

Conde Nast has named Chris Mitchell, VP-publisher of GQ, to the same position at sibling title Vanity Fair. Wired magazine VP-Publisher Howard Mittman will succeed Mr. Mitchell at GQ, the company said.No successor has been named for Mr. Mittman.The announcements come two weeks after Conde Nast... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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A Hot Summer For Indie Stores

Despite high rents and preliminary data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows a 7.9% drop in overall bookstore sales for the first half of 2014, PW’s informal poll of nearly two dozen indie bookstores found that many overcame a tough winter and are, in fact, up for the year. Some are way up. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Headline to publish Our Zoo

Headline is to publish Our Zoo by June Mottershead, the true story of the creation of Chester Zoo... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Can Onix 3.0 Create a Global Digital Publishing Industry?

Standards are like plumbing: they are only noticed when they don’t work. And like plumbing, retrofitting a 200-year-old structure—legacy publishing—with new metadata standards to improve commerce in the digital age is, at best, a complex process. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IPC name to disappear as Time Inc rebrands magazine publisher

Home of Marie Claire, NME and Whats on TV to become Time Inc UK to provide strategic clarity Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Reading Rainbow' host LeVar Burton will publish a children's book

Burton's book 'The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm' will reportedly be released this October. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Publishers urge European Commission to reject Google antitrust deal

European periodical and online publishers have urged the European Commission to reject Google’s latest proposal to settle an antitrust case.The commitments proposed by Google would not stop the company’s “abusive promotion of its own services,” the publishers said in their response, sent to the... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing in Finland: Outi Mäkinen, Director of Literature at Tammi

Outi Mäkinen of Finland's Tammi publishing house talks about top Finnish authors and books that will be on display in Frankfurt and trends in Finnish fiction. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Zealand, Indian Publishers Go Global Via Ingram POD

NZCER Press of New Zealand and Knowledge World Publishers of India discuss how they employed Ingram's Lightning Source POD service to reach new markets abroad. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Never-before-published section of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is available for reading

The children's book by Roald Dahl is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Haruki Murakami's 'The Strange Library' will be published in English this December

Murakami's novel 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage' is still topping US bestseller lists. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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