The Publishers Association has launched a new area of its website as a resource for those looking... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#publishers association
The Publishers Association has expressed its support as member companies of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA), a self-described American digital library offering "universal access to all knowledge". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 17:39:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#internet archive
#publishers association
It’s pretty obvious that the book industry, along with nearly all other businesses, will be hammered by the plague. The damage is somewhat mitigated by online ordering and delivery of printed books from you-know-who and by digital delivery of e-books and audiobooks. But that cannot compensate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 14:21:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#printed books
#book launches
#pretty obvious
#book industry
Last August, I wrote about the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, or “Binc,” a Michigan-based non-profit created to support booksellers who have fallen on hard times. If a bookseller winds up in the hospital or a bookstore has a flood, Binc can step in and pay their bills, no questions asked... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-29 08:48:18 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#support booksellers
#hard times
#questions asked
#bookstore
#bookseller
#book industry
Ebury is launching a new environmental imprint with a “legacy-defining” book by David Attenborough, A Life On Our Planet. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 10:16:04 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ebury imprint
#david attenborough
Head of Zeus is launching Aries, a new action and adventure imprint, in August with books from Brad Taylor, Ethan Cross and Matthew Harffy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 06:04:39 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#matthew harffy
Having dropped up to 2.5 million units in its worst 'acute COVID period' week, Kristin McLean says the US publishing industry needs to assess, predict, and harden weak spots for challenges ahead. The post NPD’s Kristen McLean on the US Industry: Weathering the Pandemic appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-27 12:33:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#post npd
#pandemic appeared
#kristen mclean
#challenges ahead
#publishing industry
Own It! is launching a week-long online arts festival, featuring live readings, conversations and workshops from authors and artists it publishes and represents. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-26 22:34:42 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Lionel Shriver’s novel is more determined to make its point than to make us consider what it means to tend a body for the long haul. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-26 15:48:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lionel shriver
#long haul
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) is ditching its annual RITA Awards in favour of a new prize following a racism row that engulfed the organisation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-22 06:05:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#romance writers
Even as layoffs, pay cuts and indefinite furloughs become an almost daily occurrence in the media industry, news about such developments grows no less tragic and alarming. Such was the case Thursday morning, when Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley revealed in a staff memo that, despite... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-21 16:30:08 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#financially viable
#full ownership
#feel optimistic
#monthly traffic
#audience growth
BBC Books, part of Ebury Publishing, has launched an expanded partnership with BBC Radio, giving it exclusive first option on books accompanying series and Sounds podcasts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 17:47:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ebury publishing
#bbc books
#bbc radio
The transfer of the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards arrives as a slickly edited, expertly produced video evocation of the usual onstage event, full of personality and comedy. The post The Australian Book Industry Awards’ Digital Show: Undaunted by COVID-19 appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-20 16:56:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book industry
Two academics with a background in bookselling are launching the Bookselling Research Network, an organisation bringing booksellers, researchers and associations together to celebrate and explore bookselling past, present and future. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 14:48:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Macmillan Publishers will issue promotional terms intended to help independent bookstores recover from what it calls "the significant and calamitous impacts of Covid-19 on the channel." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#macmillan publishers
#macmillan
#bookstore
The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will impact publishing is still coming into focus, and, as our content director noted last month, will likely take years to fully assess. Absent the luxury of planning years, months or even weeks into the future, publishers of all sizes have been forced... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-19 18:45:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#real estate
#real deal
#non-subscribers alike
#state level
#editorial side
Remember March? You know, a million years ago? During the month in which most places in the US began to shut down and enforce social distancing, book sales, unsurprisingly, suffered, with one notable exception: audiobooks. The Association of American Publishers released its sales numbers for... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-19 17:45:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book sales
#sales numbers
#publishing right
Andrew Sharp, former rights director at Hachette Children’s Group, is launching a new publishing consultancy, drawing on his 24 years' experience in the book trade. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-18 22:23:52 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#rights director
#hachette children
#book trade
#hachette
The National Literacy Trust has partnered with cosmetics company Lancôme to launch an audiobook club for young women. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-18 13:24:10 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#young women
#audiobook
Hachette Book Group is launching a new program to assist in the reopening of independent bookstores. The program is intended to help stores recover from the impact of Covid-19 on their businesses, as well as to aid them in reopening. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#independent bookstores
#bookstore
National Book Tokens and Puffin have joined forces to launch a new writing competition for children across the UK and Ireland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 13:20:46 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#writing contest
#joined forces
#writing competition
#puffin