John Murphy, divisional v-p and director of publicity at St. Martin's Press, has been promoted to the newly created role of v-p, publishing strategy. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Though Nielsen has been unable to provide volume sales throughout the lockdown, the presence of multiple study guides in the bestseller lists points to a relative purple patch for the education sector. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 19:58:31 UTC ]
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'So You Want to Talk About Race' saw its sales jump by 848% last week over the previous week as a number of other social justice–related titles also saw big sales bumps, helping to drive up total unit sales of print books by 6.8% over the week ended May 30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Dallek follows the common threads among 20th-century chief executives that led us here. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster's worldwide revenues rose to $170m in the three months to the end of March, up from $164m in the same quarter in 2019, parent company ViacomCBS has reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-11 08:42:31 UTC ]
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Solid gains in the adult fiction and juvenile nonfiction categories lifted print unit sales up 4.7% in the week ended May 2, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire McGowan's The Other Wife (Thomas & Mercer) has once again claimed the Bookstat lead spot, as the top three remain the same for a third week running. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 08:11:53 UTC ]
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Indie bookstores thrive on being part of a community. Now, they’re taking desperate action to stay in business amid “social distancing.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-17 15:49:08 UTC ]
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LAST MONTH MARKED 20 years since the publication of a strange, prescient book called Cyber-Marx — a steampunky title which betrays the rigor of its analysis. By historicizing the technologically juiced metabolism of turn-of-the-century capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford sought to revivify Karl Marx... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-11 17:00:22 UTC ]
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Michael Lind says elite “managers” have stoked the resentments of the working class. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-21 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books is publishing its first new title in 37 years from writer and illustrator Jill Murphy this September. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-20 04:50:08 UTC ]
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Physical book sales in Sweden are falling but the take-up of digital subscription services is on the rise, leading to a boost in revenue during 2019, new figures show. Statistics published by trade magazine Svensk Bokhandel showed sales nudged up 1.1% by value and 4.9% by volume in 2019... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-18 15:14:31 UTC ]
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As FX expands to a streaming platform this year, with FX on Hulu, the network is making sure its most popular series will continue to be a mainstay on its linear channel for the next three years. FX has given a three-season renewal to American Horror Story, its anthology horror series from Ryan... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-01-09 17:00:29 UTC ]
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Even though the holiday season was below par, Germany’s book market narrowly avoided another major disappointment and finished the year on a positive note. Overall sales were up in 2019 by 1.4% in value. In volume they followed a recent pattern and were down marginally, by 0.4%. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-08 18:34:07 UTC ]
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The Scholastic Corporation has revealed a 7% rise in operating income in the second quarter of the fiscal year, as c.e.o. Richard Robinson said the firm "continued to stand out as the world’s leading children’s book publisher and distributor". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-23 08:45:28 UTC ]
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The only actor to appear in every film of the Skywalker saga reflects on his experience in the book “I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-20 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Malorie Blackman sold her life story to them, other hot authors are lining up. What makes Stormzy’s imprint so different?In a glass-walled meeting room on the fifth floor of Penguin Random House headquarters in Pimlico, Theophina Gabriel is talking about her love of reading while laughing at her... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-12-16 08:00:15 UTC ]
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Journalism is arguably in one of the most fragile states since Gutenberg’s advent of the printing press almost 600 years Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-13 17:13:57 UTC ]
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Comic book creators search for ways to combat the rise of illegal digital sharing of their work. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2019-11-29 13:41:32 UTC ]
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After several weeks of receiving orders from Amazon that had been significantly lower than the comparable period in 2018, publishers said orders have improved this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie educational publisher John Catt has reported record results for the year ending 31st August 2019, with revenues from across the business rising. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-05 07:35:27 UTC ]
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