Hot properties include titles from Lisa Scottoline and Iris Johanson, a story collection inspired by Edward Hopper, a return to Twin Peaks via its co-creator Mark Frost, Tom Wolfe’s newest, and more. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The groundbreaking Seattle indie house marked its 40th anniversary at the annual showcase for independent and self-published comics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new feature, intended to help users with book discovery, mines information from online book news, reviews and video content. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller has launched its annual tracker of the publishing industry's transformation, the FutureBook Digital Census. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Books preps to debut outside of Boston; Curious George takes on a developer in Cambridge, Mass.; a long-time bookstore co-op in Wisconsin weighs its options; and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrea Wulf has been named the 29th winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for her biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature (John Murray), about an explorer, naturalist and foreign member of the Royal Society. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kirkus Prizes, which at $50,000 each are among the most lucrative literary prizes in the country, announced their finalists Tuesday morning. The awards, sponsored by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews, are given in three categories: fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over 1,900 people traveled to the Big Easy September 15-18 for the 47th Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, an annual gathering of crime fiction’s fans and authors, making it the largest Bouchercon ever. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookstores are on the move in Alabama, Mississippi, and New Jersey; a bookstore gets a new life in Tampa; a Bronx bookseller’s business plan is named one of the best in the city; and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It doesn't matter if you've got the biggest or best shop in the world if you can't connect people to the things that they want. It's an issue that Google is hoping to address in its electronic bookstore with the launch of Discover, a new way to show... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Attendance at SIBA's September 16-18 show was up 25% over 2015 and one of the main topics of conversation was the plan to move the event to the spring in 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Once the domain of your Nana's generation, book groups have enjoyed a bit of a renaissance for a wee while now. A group of like-minded folk who read a common book in their own time then meet up once a month to talk about it, the classic book group is a great way for neighbours and communities to... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales have risen 10%, thanks to TV adaptations and clever marketing. As four publishing houses unveil new looks, John Walsh investigates the battle for new readersImagine you have a sudden burning desire to read David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’s favourite of all his novels. Thanks to Project... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian author WP Kinsella, whose book Shoeless Joe became the hit film Field of Dreams, dies aged 81 in a doctor-assisted death. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Royal National Institute of Blind People and HarperCollins have announced a new three year partnership to grow Talking Books' library by 15% to 28,500 titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew Harwell, senior editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, was named PW Star Watch Superstar at a party at New York's Dream Downtown hotel on September 15. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins and Jojo Moyes once again dominate the upper echelons of the Weekly E-Book Ranking with The Girl on the Train and Moyes’ After You respectively. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended September 11, 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What publishers are doing ahead of new Labor Department regulations that will expand the number of employees eligible for overtime pay. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The growth of programmatic advertising was supposed to mean the death of the ad network. Facebook is proving that wrong, writes Yuyu Chen this week. If you haven't read it yet it's still news to you. Here's a round up of a few of our best stories for the week ending September 16. The post ICYMI:... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Books, the e-commerce giant’s seemingly incongruous bricks-and-mortar venture, is now open in San Diego. The store marks the company’s second foray into offline retail. The 3,500-square-foot shop at a mall in the University City neighborhood premiered with little fanfare Sept. 7 and is... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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