Total sales in the U.S. book publishing industry rose to $27.98 billion, according to figures released by the Association of American Publishers. Trade sales were up 4.2%. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 08:30 Free Word has appointed Rose Fenton as director of the organisation, with her first day to be 12th September. The Free Word Centre in London is a house of literature, literacy and free expression, hosting debates, readings and conferences. Ten... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 16:04 Dawn Frenchs début novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous (Penguin), retains its position at the summit of The Official UK Top 50 week-on-week, thanks to a promotional appearance on ITVs This Morning, and a £2.99 if you spend £10... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Fri, 01/07/2011 - 09:13 Borders in the US has agreed to sell to private investment firm Najafi for $215m (£135m), it has been announced today. The Borders Group bookselling chain is now seeking bankruptcy court approval for the agreement, which if... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Flipboard, the social magazine iPad app, has incorporated content from another social network, LinkedIn -- adding the professional network's industry news to previous integrations with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. A new version of Flipboard to be released this morning also includes... Continue reading at AllThingsD
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 30/06/2011 - 09:41 Waterstones increased profit by £6.7m last year as like-for-like sales fell by 3.8%, according to financial results released today. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 20/06/2011 - 14:31 John Locke has become the first self-published author to sell more than one million ebooks through Amazon. The author used Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform to publish and sell his titles. He joins Stieg Larsson,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 07/06/2011 - 15:44 Thanks in part to a "better than half price" deal at Waterstone's, John Grisham tops the Official UK Top 50 for the first time in five and a half years. The Confession (Arrow), the Arkansas-born legal thriller writer's 23rd... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 07/06/2011 - 11:40 Amazon.co.uk has announced that Orange Prize shortlisted author Emma Donoghues Room (Picador) is leading sales on the website ahead of rival contenders for the award. The Orange Prize for Fiction is revealed tomorrow (8th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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People is the most profitable U.S. magazine and had an excellent, +5.6% ad-page advertising 2010, so it was appropriate that the magazine did very well at min's seventh "Sales Executive of the Year" awards breakfast Thursday morning (June 2) at New York's Grand Hyatt. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 01/06/2011 - 09:52 E-book sales accounted for over 8% of Pan Macmillan's trade sales in the first quarter of 2011, with the publisher predicting a rise to up to 10% by the end of the year. Over the same period, the publisher's sales of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A ad tech startup that promises to help Web publishers make sense of all the data their ad sales generate. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2011-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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GigaOM, a media company targeting the tech space, has secured a $6 million round of funding led by Reed Elsevier's investment group Reed Elsevier Ventures. Existing venture partners Alloy Ventures and True Ventures also participated in the round. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Research and Markets report features 2011 current and 2012 forecast estimates on the median wages and salaries nationally and for all 50 U.S. States. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Fri, 27/05/2011 - 12:26 Children's publishers have welcomed the acquisition of Waterstone's by Russian businessman Alexander Mamut. Francesca Dow, m.d. of Penguin Children's Books, said: "The Waterstone's takeover is good news for children's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Fri, 27/05/2011 - 14:21 BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast an eight-hour dramatisation of Russian author Vasily Grossmans epic novel Life and Fate from 18th-24th September. Kenneth Branagh is to star in the adaptation, which will take over every drama slot on the station apart from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Spending on e-media infrastructure increased for both large and small b-to-b publishers in 2010 and will again in 2011, according to respondents to the 2011 FOLIO B-to-B CEO Survey. Larger publishers expect operating expenses to jump 6 percent in e-media, while smaller publishers expect a 5... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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It happened. Amazon says ebook sales have surpassed physical book sales on Amazon.com. Continue reading at PC World
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While the Rapture isnt scheduled to occur until Saturday, according to members of certain religious fringe groups, it looks like doomsday has come early for publishers of print books. Amazon announced Thursday that sales of ebooks on the site have finally surpassed combined sales of hardcovers... Continue reading at AdWeek
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As a former Amazon Associate, I can tell you that a great many sales of Kindle Books are for the 99¢ complete Dickens, etc. Movie critic and Web publisher Roger Ebert, providing some context for Amazons stat about Kindle ebooks outselling print books. Continue reading at AllThingsD
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