Macmillan acquires sports psychology titles

Macmillan has acquired two books by sports psychologist Professor Damian Hughes. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie acquired world rights to The Five Steps to a Winning Mindset and one other book from David Luxton at DLA. Luxton is the author of How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, which was published by Aurum Press. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Scripps Acquires Digital Video Startup Newsy

Media conglomerate E.W. Scripps is expanding into the digital video game with the acquisition of Newsy, a five-year-old video news startup that produces content for Web and mobile platforms. The deal, in which Scripps is paying $35 million for the startup, is expected to close on Jan. 1. In a... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo sues daughter for 'psychological violence'

Illustrator resorts to lawyers over long-running dispute about his sale of the comic-book franchise to Hachette LivreHe co-created the Asterix comic series about the adventures of the indomitable Gaul, but now Albert Uderzo is fighting his own real-life battle, and has filed a legal complaint... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan relaunches online teen platform

Macmillan celebrated the relaunch of MyKindaBook.com, an online platform for teen and YA books,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rewind: Young John Slattery Can't Believe His Luck in This 1980s Sports Illustrated Commercial

There was a time in the '80s when men rushed into video stores searching for VHS (or Betamax) tapes of sports bloopers. And those men looked a lot like Roger Sterling.At least that's what a Sports Illustrated TV spot would you have believe.With Sports Illustrated publisher Time Inc. preparing to... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published title shortlisted for business book prize

A self-published title has been included in the shortlist for the CMI Management Book of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible buys rights to 5,000 AudioGO titles

Amazon-owned audiobook seller Audible has bought rights to 5,000 of AudioGO's titles.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International Bestsellers: November 2013: New Titles Rule The Lists

Newcomers to the international bestseller lists locked down the top spots in several markets in October. Haruki Murakami’s much anticipated novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, the author’s first since 1Q84, hit #1 on Spain’s fiction list (Knopf will publish a translation... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New publishing divisions for Macmillan Children's Books

Macmillan Children’s Books is creating two new publishing divisions—Macmillan Under... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan deal for self-published author

Pan Macmillan has acquired five self-published and two unpublished novels by bestselling ebook... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biteback signs title on Stephen Ward

Biteback has signed a book on the Profumo affair written by Geoffrey Robertson QC. The book,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dundee UP acquired by Edinburgh

Edinburgh University Press has acquired the business and publishing assets of Dundee University... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Does First Int'l Pub for Aussie Newcomer

Macmillan's trade group is organizing its first coordinated international publication for an author it discovered through one of its Australian e-only imprints. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World Book Night 2014 titles include 'Wild,' 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette'

The titles which will be distributed for free as part of World Book Night include works by Cheryl Strayed, Maria Semple, Agatha Christie, and more. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo removes all self-published titles. Is this censorship, an overreaction, or just good sense?

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo removed self-published pornographic titles from their sites and Kobo stopped sales of self-published titles altogether. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan buys S L Grey novels

Pan Macmillan has bought two novels by writing collaboration "S L Grey", in a "... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Waters title revealed

The title of the 2014 Sarah Waters novel is to be The Paying Guests, publisher Virago has... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon title on Financial Times shortlist

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year shortlist has been announced,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan sets Movember challenge

Pan Macmillan is to invite the book trade to join an industry-wide campaign building awareness... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mira acquires David Solomons tie-in

Harlequin UK imprint Mira is to publish David Solomons’ Not Another Happy Ending, based on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter Acquires Mobile Ad Exchange MoPub

Google's got an ad exchange. So does Facebook. Twitter is said to be working on one too. But in the meantime, the company has just purchased MoPub, a burgeoning mobile ad exchange business.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MoPub has built an ad exchange through which mobile publishers... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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