Dusty Miller, Pan Mac’s communications director for non-fiction and events, recently won a PPC award for Picador’s campaign for Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt. Miriam Robinson finds out what gave the campaign such impact. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#dusty miller
#pan mac
#communications director
#recently won
#adam kay
The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is moving into its third year with a major new sponsor, the University of East Anglia (UEA), whose MA Creative Writing students will also have a single bloc vote on the 2019 Prize judging panel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#consciousness prize
#small presses
Capped by a blowout fourth quarter, HarperCollins reported that earnings for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018 rose 23% over fiscal 2017, to $244 million. The earnings jump came on a 7% revenue rise, to $1.76 billion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#harpercollins reported
Revenue in the first half of 2018 rose 1.4% over the comparable period in 2017 at the Hachette Book Group, parent company Lagardère reported, and profits rose by an unspecified amount. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#profits rose
Revenue from the more than 1,200 publishers who report sales to the AAP increased 0.4% in 2017 over 2016, rising from $14.65 billion in 2016 to $14.70 billion last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#downloadable audio
HMH attributed the sales rise in the first quarter of 2018 in part to higher print titles sales, but a change in the product mix of sales—last year HMH sold lots of 'The Handmaid's Tale' and '1984' ebooks—contributed to a slight rise in the quarterly net loss. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#sales rise
#hmh trade
#hmh attributed
#product mix
Unit sales of print books rose 1% in the week ended Apr. 29, 2018 over the comparable week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
A 43% increase in digital audio sales in the first quarter of 2018 helped lift earnings 7% at Simon & Schuster over the first period in 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#43% increase
#simon schuster
'Magnolia Table,' cookbook by the star of HGTV mega-hit 'Fixer Upper,' sold more than 169,000 copies in its first week on sale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#joanna gaines
#magnolia table
#fixer upper
Apple on Wednesday promoted a company veteran to oversee Apple Music and said the service had hit 48 million subscribers. Oliver Schusser is now vice president of Apple Music and international content. A 14-year Apple employee, Schusser previously led launches of Apple services like the iTunes... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#apple services
#joined apple
#wednesday promoted
#vice president
#itunes store
#app store
#international markets
#music labels
With Easter occurring two weeks earlier this year than in 2017, unit sales of print books rose 8% in the week ended March 18, 2018, over the comparable period in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
An artist and healthcare sciences educator, as well as a message therapist with expertise in orthopedic injuries, Kriota Willberg is the author of the forthcoming 'Draw Stronger: Self Care For Cartoonists & Visual Artists,' a cheerfully irreverent but practical guide to accredited techniques... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#cheerfully irreverent
#practical guide
Unit sales of print books in the week ended Mar. 4, 2018, were 5% higher than in the comparable week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#early march
#print books
#5% higher
The Weekly ScUnit sales of print books rose 3% in the week ended Feb. 25, 2018, over the comparable period in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
A 31% leap in the print unit sales of board books in the week ended Feb. 18, 2018, helped drive total unit sales 5% higher than in the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#board books
There was a prickly if fleeting moment in last month’s Grammy Awards telecast during the “In Memoriam” segment that honored Chester Bennington, the late Linkin Park frontman and father of six, who took his own life last July. Moments after Bennington’s face faded from the screen, the rapper Logic... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
With the juvenile fiction and nonfiction categories both posting 7% gains, total print unit sales were 3% higher in the week ended Feb. 11, 2018, than in the comparable week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#early february
#juvenile fiction
#nonfiction categories
#3% higher
At outlets that report to NPD BookScan, print unit sales were 6% higher in the week ended Feb. 4, 2018, than in the comparable week in 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#6% higher
The positive impact of currency fluctuations, plus higher backlist sales in its children's division, led to a 1% revenue rise at HarperCollins this past quarter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#positive impact
#currency fluctuations