Michael Joseph’s Louise Jones is to return to Ebury as creative and communications director to oversee the marketing and publicity across the publisher’s new hub structure. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Amazon and Hachette have resolved a contentious contract battle that caught readers and authors in the crossfire for months. Neither company is talking specifics, but the New York Times reports that Hachette will get the ability to set its own ebook prices. At the same time, Amazon will offer... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Bond has taken legal advice on how to stop other authors writing about Paddington Bear after his death, according to the Times. In an interview published in the newspaper on Saturday 1st November , Bond said he has already consulted a lawyer over how to protect his creation and that... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Publishing, which owns 10 daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, has hired Michael Rooney as executive VP-chief revenue officer, the company plans to announce Monday. Mr. Rooney, who was chief revenue officer at The Wall Street Journal until last year,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Connelly, author of 'The Burning Room' (Little, Brown and Company, 9780316225939) will appear on 'CBS This Morning' on Monday, November 3. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones looks set to give its Christmas trade an added boost with the opening of two new branches between now and December 25th. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ben Willis is to leave Headline to join Transworld, where he started his publishing career, in the newly created role of head of Transworld digital publicity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the ebook market develops on a licensed-access model, librarians caution that we are tumbling toward a digital memory hole in which large portions of our literary heritage could one day be lost altogether. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christian publisher Lion Hudson has appointed Nick Jones as its new managing director. Jones... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Established in memory of Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, the $25,000 award is presented biannually to a living American author whose "scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown’s crime imprint, Mulholland Books, is reissuing 25 books by Jim Thompson, 37 years after the author's death. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Much of the media coverage of libraries in 2014 to date has centered on the modest progress made on the ebook issue. But 2014 has been a year of significant progress for libraries in the public policy sphere, with a number of library initiatives advancing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost two weeks after the planned acquisition of Perseus Books Group by Hachette and Ingram fell apart, Perseus CEO David Steinberger has announced that Mark Suchomel will officially resume his position at the helm of the boutique distribution company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has responded to an open letter by Authors United, signed by 900-plus authors in support of Hachette, with their own open letter, Readers United. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pounce. Leak. Wait.It's the strategy Rupert Murdoch has employed in his effort to acquire Time Warner, and similar to one that proved successful in the billionaire's last big, surprising media takeover.In 2007, when News Corp. was pursuing Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones -- which it... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 10 years after the first Scott Pilgrim book came out, O'Malley is back with Seconds, his first new graphic novel since the series ended. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Publishing has acquired a “definitive” biography of the iconic Argentine-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pricing has always been a sensitive topic for publishers and libraries, dating back to the advent of “big deal” style e-journal packages and the so-called serials crisis. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In appeal filings last week, lawyers for Simon & Schuster and Macmillan contend that Judge Denise Cote's injunction against Apple has made a timely return to a “no-discount” agency model for ebooks all but impossible. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Gwyn Jones has acquired two novels from author Gavin McCrea for his list at Scribe UK.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Terry Eagleton is a bookseller's nightmare. "They simply don't know where to put me," he says. With good reason: the pre-eminent cultural critic and distinguished professor has written on cultural theory, politics, and history, as well as a memoir and a novel. In recent years, his attention has... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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