Open Road snaps up Nicola Barker in e for US

US digital publishing specialists Open Road will release Nicola Barker's Man Booker... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Expanding tearoom and bookshop chain opens in Chester

A new branch of a growing tearooms and bookshop chain is to open in Chester this weekend. Beatons Tearooms Ltd, which is also a bookshop, was first founded by owner Patrick Duffy in 2010 in Tisbury, Wiltshire. Beaton's outlets are “very much a tearooms,” Duffy, said, “but the book stock is also... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spanish-Language Children's Bookstore Opens in Los Angeles

La Librería is the first Spanish-language bookstore for children in Los Angeles County, home to 4.9 million Hispanics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three bookshops open

Three new independent bookshops have launched onto the scene in Manchester, Cheltenham and Cornwall. The Suffolk Anthology opened its doors at the end of last month in Cheltenham, run by former GP Helene Hewett as a family business with her two children, selling new titles, with a significant... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier opens Australian adult publisher

Bonnier Publishing is expanding in Australia with a new company based in Melbourne. Bonnier is carving out the adult programme from another one of its Australian companies, The Five Mile Press, to form Echo Publishing. Echo will release about 50 fiction and non-fiction adult titles per year,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vox Opens Video Studio in L.A., Prompting the Question: Are We Nearing Peak Video?

Vox Media -- the digital publisher behind sites like The Verge, SB Nation and Vox.com -- has opened a department in Los Angeles aimed at making more digital video and, possibly, traditional TV.As Vox Creative Director Chad Mumm told The Hollywood Reporter about the new Vox... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Roads signs Bond début

Two Roads has acquired a début novel that has been picked by Oprah Winfrey for her Book Club 2.0. Lisa Highton bought British Commonwealth rights excluding Canada to Ruby by Cynthia Bond from Lance Fitzgerald at Crown US. Ruby is an “epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon opens online store on Chinese competitor's marketplace

Amazon has opened a flagship store on Chinese competitor Alibaba Group Holding’s consumer-to-consumer site, Tmall.com. Amazon’s store on the site launched this week and so far offers a limited range of products including imported food, women’s shoes, toys and kitchen equipment, the Wall Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google, Beware: Facebook to Open Ad Exchange Powered by LiveRail

Facebook continues its campaign to invade Google's ad-tech turf.Facebook is building an ad exchange that would automate the sale of other publishers' ads, according to people familiar with the matter. LiveRail, the online video ad-tech firm that Facebook bought last summer, will be the one... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Blake snaps up Eurovision's Conchita

John Blake Publishing has acquired the autobiography of 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst. Managing director Rosie Virgo acquired world English rights to Being Conchita from Guenter G Rodewald in Barcelona. She said: “We have extremely high hopes for this title. Conchita is a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charing Cross Road events for Big Green Bookshop

The Big Green Bookshop is set to hold events at The Old Café – in the former Foyles Charing Cross Road – in an “exciting new partnership.” The Old Café in Foyles’ former home was always a popular venue with literary folk and is still operating after the bookseller moved its flagship store down... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Borderlands Could Remain Open

The owner and staff have come up with a potential solution to keep the San Francisco indie alive, after it announced that the city's new minimum wage laws threatened to shut it down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline snaps up Hughes' 'The Letter'

Headline has signed The Letter, a debut novel by Kathryn Hughes which hit number one on the Amazon Kindle chart as a self-published ebook.   The Letter, which tells the story of two women whose lives become entwined when one discovers a letter that was written in 1939 but never sent, was... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tim Dorsey Hits the Road

The author is on tour following the release of his 18th book, 'Shark Skin Suite,' the latest in his comic series featuring the fictional Florida serial killer Serge Storms. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little City Books to Open in Hoboken

An unlikely trio—a literary agent, a singer/songwriter, and an investment banker—are bringing the first general independent bookstore in over a decade to this New Jersey city. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Opens Its Ad Awards to Instagram Campaigns

Facebook is allowing a new ad type in its yearly awards: Instagram campaigns. The Facebook Awards started taking submissions last week, and for the first time, Instagram ads are up for consideration, the social network said. This is the fourth year Facebook is hosting the ad awards, and Adweek... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC's Killer Reads makes 'open submission' buys

Killer Reads, HarperFiction’s new digital-first crime and thriller list, has made its first acquisitions through an open submission process it held last summer. Sarah Hodgson, deputy publishing director and Kate Stephenson, editor, have acquired three new titles from the hundreds of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IBPA Opens Registration for PubU

The 27th annual Publishing University will be held April 10-11, 2015 at the Sheraton Austin Hotel in Austin, Tex. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles to open new store in Birmingham

Foyles is to expand into the West Midlands for the first time, by opening a store at the new Grand Central Birmingham station. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hewson joins Two Roads

John Murray Press imprint Two Roads has hired Kate Hewson as senior non-fiction editor. Two Roads’ editorial assistant Fede Andornino has also been promoted to assistant editor. Hewson, who will report to Two Roads’ publisher Lisa Highton, joins Two Roads on 2nd February from Icon, where she... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Read and Eat Bookstore to Open in Chicago

Read and Eat, a bookstore that will specialize in books about food and cuisine, will open in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in April. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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