Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 01/08/2011 - 08:59 Digital sales have helped to bolster profitability for Penguin in the first six months of 2011, with company chiefs looking for organic growth and a focus on the high street over the second half of the year. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Penguin Press is to publish Matthew Goodwin's latest book This England: Nation, Identity and Belonging. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Penguin Classics is to launch a new series of world science fiction "to challenge stereotypes about the genre". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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“This is a Book for People who Love the National Parks” is an illustrated guide with fun nuggets of information. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-27 12:57:27 UTC ]
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Hay Festival Digital events were streamed over 210,000 times in the virtual festival's opening weekend (Saturday 23rd May to Bank Holiday Monday, 25th May), with people from more than 63 countries tuning in. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-26 11:37:30 UTC ]
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April 2020 year‐to‐date revenue at Bloomsbury Publishing has fallen just 3%, the company has reported as part of its full-year results announcement, with print revenues at 87% of last year’s sales and academic digital revenues up by over 52% year on year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 21:51:31 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press, the original publisher of Astrid Lindgren’s iconic character, has teamed up with the author’s estate and Riot to celebrate Pippi Longstocking turning 75 Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-16 10:44:02 UTC ]
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Featuring the good news and the bad news from the week in books, the big titles everyone is talking about, the best reviewed books, adaptation news, and more… From Book Marks editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee. Discussed in this week’s episode: Haruki Murakami’s lockdown radio show Barnes &... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-15 08:49:00 UTC ]
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News Corp announced today the appointment of Almar Latour as the new Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones and Publisher Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-05 16:57:28 UTC ]
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Both boards unanimously approved the termination of the merger, announced in May 2019 and originally expected to close in early 2020. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-05-04 15:05:34 UTC ]
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Publishers McGraw-Hill and Cengage have mutually agreed to call off their planned merger. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 10:50:25 UTC ]
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Sarah Frier traces the company’s cultural impact along with its business history. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-30 15:32:33 UTC ]
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A new study of publishing executives reveals strategies and technology for maximizing growth in the digital world. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-04-24 14:35:00 UTC ]
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In a joint statement released to mark World Book Day, leaders of three organizations serving the publishing industry issued a cry to support the country’s booksellers as they struggle to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has launched a collaboration with charity Speakers for Schools delivering a series of virtual educational events from its authors, streaming to thousands of students across the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 20:41:22 UTC ]
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Innovation means a lot of different things to a lot of different people in a lot of different industries. In publishing, the word has typically been tethered to data-driven digital products, rather than ideas and ideators. But at Cosmopolitan, innovation is taking on a more complex meaning that... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-23 19:03:42 UTC ]
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The Penguin Podcast is moving from a bi-weekly edition to weekly for the next three months in response to the Covid-19 lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 07:58:20 UTC ]
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Vintage Books is prioritising different methods of measuring success during the pandemic, its marketing director Chloe Healy has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 20:41:25 UTC ]
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Cinco Puntos Press launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $250,000, as did Small Press Distribution, which is seeking $100,000. Lambda Literary, the LGBTQ-focused group, is asking for $175,000 to survive. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Subscribers to audiobook subscription platform BookBeat are growing during the coronavirus pandemic, with bestsellers and well-known authors performing best. The post Sweden’s BookBeat Rides High on the Pandemic’s Audiobook Boom appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-04-20 13:45:35 UTC ]
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Kindle e-readers make it easy to amass and read books. Unfortunately, they don’t make it particularly easy to organize them. There’s no folder structure or tagging system to impose order on large libraries. Instead, Kindle offers Collections, a way of sorting books into logical groupings on... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2020-04-20 10:30:00 UTC ]
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