Working around pandemic-induced constraints has been keeping Jade Productions managing director Ken Kong busy. With cross-border travel restrictions still in place, his team is unable to visit factories in mainland China to supervise the manufacturing process. And while the pandemic is largely under control within Hong Kong, with most workers having returned to the office, Kong and his team continue to limit the number of visits to business partners. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' is on track to close out 2018 on top of the Apple Books store, and this week is another in the books with her debut memoir in the #1 slot. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You might think that you are a night owl, but new research says that less than 1% of the population are actually genetically programmed to work best later in the day. The age old proverb, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” may just be true, according to an... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parent firm blames subscription figures but co-founder says magazine was ‘murdered’ to drive readers elsewhereThe Weekly Standard, one of the last holdouts opposed to Donald Trump within rightwing media, has been closed after 23 years, silencing its hawkish voice on foreign affairs and its... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Grand Central Publishing will absorb its Life & Style imprint into the flagship GCP list at the end of 2018. The reorganization will result in a few job cuts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An advertising and product development executive at a traditional news publisher discusses the internal tug of war. The post ‘There is no dialogue’: Confessions of a publisher product development exec appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ganxy, founded in 2009 by Joshua Cohen and Aleks Jakulin to help music and then book publishers sell their content online, is going out of business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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About 20 staff are expected to lose their jobs at men’s title, which launched in 2007ShortList magazine is shutting down after more than a decade, as publishers struggle to make free print publications profitable amid declining advertising revenue and the increased cost of paper.The magazine... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mr B's Emporium in Bath has raised almost £64,000 to expand its premises since launching its crowdfunder last month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper publishers know they have to experiment to keep their print products viable. But innovating an expensive product is risky. The post With no election results, Gannett newspapers edge into the future for their print product appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charles Womack III, president of Womack Newspapers, Inc. (WNI) announced today that the North Carolina-based alt-weekly publication, Creative Loafing Charlotte—which was acquired by WNI in 2014 from SouthComm Inc.—has been sold to his son C. Alex Womack IV, president of Womack Digital LLC, for... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Drama Book Shop, known for its exhaustive collection of plays and books on theater and as hallowed ground for the Broadway set, will shutter its store at 250 W. 40th St. early next year. Its... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2018-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unstoppable Film & Television has acquired the production rights to Juno Dawson’s upcoming YA novel Meat Market (Quercus Children’s Books), about a 16-year-old girl who is catapulted from her South London council estate to the international world of fashion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Citing continuing poor sales, Llewellyn Worldwide, best known for its mind/body/spirit offerings, is shutting down its crime fiction imprint, Midnight Ink, in August 2019, after releasing its final list during the spring/summer season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marketers are clamoring for the opportunities internet-connected TVs and over-the-top platforms like Roku and Amazon Fire provide, namely to reach audiences who are unsubscribing to traditional cable and the targeting capabilities that come from IP-delivered content. But currently it's extremely... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lesley Pearse and her editor, Michael Joseph m.d. Louise Moore, reflect on 25 years as a partnership, changing reading habits, and how life experience is essential to connect with readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The educational publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has completed its previously announced divestiture of the clinical and standardized testing business to private equity firm Alpine Investors for $135 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A running joke among the Kings is that Jeff Carter is practically a father to linemates Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson. Toffoli took it to Twitter last week and posted a photo of Carter talking to him and Pearson, days before a scrimmage in Ontario, and wrote, “Dad just told us he’s taking us... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto Group said that as part of a companywide cost cutting program, it is shutting its Minneapolis office and closing its Voyageur Press imprint. The Cool Springs and Motorbooks imprints are continuing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quarto has reported an "encouraging" trading performance for the first six months of 2018, including a group revenue rise of 12% year-on-year to $56.2m (2017: $50.2m) and an improved gross profit margin of 50.1% (2017: 48.2%). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_134577" align="alignright" width="150"] Alex Hardiman[/caption] The Atlantic continued its ongoing expansion this week with the hire of Facebook’s head of news products, Alex Hardiman, as its new chief business and product officer. Starting this fall, Hardiman will be... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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