Pan Macmillan is marking three decades of publishing Ken Follett and his series The Pillars of the Earth by releasing new editions of 17 backlist titles and previously unseen archive material. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Devault-Graves Agency is claiming that the J.D. Salinger Trust is thwarting the publisher's attempts to sell a collection of Salinger short stories abroad. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Livres Canada Books facilitates networking and connections to help the international publishing community to discover the latest from the vibrant Canadian publishing market. The post Livres Canada Books: Your Convenient Connection to Canadian Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robots haven't completely replaced media salespeople, but they've forced the role to evolve. In the latest in our Confessions series, an anonymous publishing exec says that while it's hard to get print reps with digital skills, too many digital salespeople don't even bother to read the company's... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Grammy Award-winning rock musician Jack White's indie publishing effort, Third Man Books, has signed a North American distribution with Consortium, and is looking ahead to releasing three titles in 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A senior management group has agreed to acquire Switzerland-based international academic publisher Peter Lang Academic Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK’s parent company Lagardere has released its results for 2014, showing that profits at Lagardere Publishing, which includes Hachette UK as well as other publishing divisions across the world, were €197m, down by 12% or €26m year-on-year. Sales for 2014 came to €2,004m, down 4.5% from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Linda Evans, senior editorial director at Transworld, is to retire in April after 23 years with the company. Transworld publisher, Bill Scott-Kerr, paid tribute to her in a message to the company in which he called her “wonderful” and “redoubtable”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Driven by gains in the children’s/young adult and K–12 instructional materials segments, publishers’ sales hit $15.72 billion in 2014, up 4.9% over the previous year, according to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown will publish a sequel to Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram this October, 10 years after the release of the original. The Mountain Shadow will get a global publication on 13th October, with Little, Brown publishing across the UK and Commonwealth, and Pan Macmillan releasing it in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Friends, family members, colleagues, and those otherwise touched by the work of the late author gathered for an evening of rich and decidedly up-tempo readings, speeches, and performances to honor his life. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital advertising revenue isn't replacing publishers' lost print revenue. So, publishers are having to create new business units to make up the loss. But that's hard to pull off. Trinity Mirror says it's looking at user behavior to identify new revenue streams. Meanwhile, Norway's Dagens... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Certain kinds of books are the staff of life for publishers, because readers never tire of them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profits at Lagardere Publishing, parent company of Hachette Book Group, fell to 197 million euros in 2014 from 223 million euros in 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin says it published The Whole Pantry ‘in good faith’ and never checked Gibson’s claims she cured her brain cancer through diet and lifestyle aloneThe publisher of a recipe book has admitted to never fact-checking claims made by the author that she survived terminal brain cancer through... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing online is easy; making money online is harder. Publishers have been hit on all sides. Not only is the traditional ad revenue model increasingly tough to pull off, but most publishers are still in the early stages of replacing that lost revenue with new businesses. Subscriptions sound... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Global children's publishers are turning away from the US and UK and toward Asian, French, Italian, Portuguese or Eastern European publishers for fresh content. The post Are the US and UK Children’s Publishers Getting Stale? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is creating two new Spanish-language publishing divisions: HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Though 2015 is designated the Year of Literature to stimulate reading in Russia, the country’s book industry is facing its toughest test in decades. The post Russia’s Year of Literature Fighting “Toughest Test in Decades” appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salt is publishing the first novel by Paul McVeigh, director of the London Short Story Festival (LSSF). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion Books is to publish the autobiography of “Breaking Bad” actor Bryan Cranston. Amanda Harris, deputy publisher, Non-fiction at Orion Books bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in Say My Name, from Julian Alexander of Lucas Alexander Whitley. 58-year-old Cranston is best... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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