Industry Notes: Serial Box’s Foreign Rights and Amazon’s Summer Reading List

Bookcase Literary Agency is handling international rights sales for Serial Box–which has an ‘Orphan Black’ series coming–and Amazon’s ‘Best So Far’ 2019 list is out for summer reading. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Serial Box: New “Orphan Black’ Content Coming iterary agent Flavia Viotti and Miere Dias at Bookcase Literary Agency have announced today (June 19) they’re handling international ... The post Industry Notes: Serial Box’s Foreign Rights and Amazon’s Summer Reading List appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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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

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Industry Stocks: August Performances

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Coalition to tackle UK 'reading crisis'

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Calvin Harris' Summer single is a million-dollar hit on Spotify

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Amazon Unveils KDP Kids

In a move designed to attract and support children’s book authors and self-publishers, Amazon has launched KDP Kids, a children's-focused illustrated and chapter book category in the Kindle Store. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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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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Authors United Preparing New Amazon Initiative

The group of more than 900 authors will launch a new initiative, possibly next week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Kobo Inks Exclusive Deal to Offer Reading Eggs E-books

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Never-before-published section of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is available for reading

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Picador Classic list for 2015

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More industry figures speak out on Scotland referendum

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With Print, Amazon Challenges Brazil’s Bookselling Establishment

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Kobo's Aura H20 lets you read in the bath

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iBooks Bestsellers: Brown Hits the List

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