PRH Opens 2-Day Rapid Shipping Program

Now in its sixth year, PRH's popular rapid replenishment program allows retailers to have weekday orders shipped the following business day for arrival at booksellers’ doors within two days. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PlayStation's original programming future depends on 'Powers'

Powers is the first series to come from Sony PlayStation's original programming push, a partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, and it's not rated "E" for everyone. With comic books as its source material, the racy superhero cop drama from crea... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestseller List: ‘Steve Jobs’ Lands at #2

'Becoming Steve Jobs,' Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli’s biography of the late Apple CEO, rose from the #8 spot to the #2 spot on Apple’s bestseller list for the week ended March 30. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-01 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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PRH acquires cookbook from Ottolenghi and Scully

Penguin Random House has acquired The NOPI Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully. The collection of more than 120 recipes from Ottolenghi and collaborator and NOPI head chef Scully will showcase the pair’s favourite recipes from the celebrated central London restaurant. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH reshuffles strategy, commercial and consumer roles

Penguin Random House UK has created and expanded a number of roles in its strategy, commercial and consumer and digital teams, ahead of the departure of commercial director Nigel Waters. Waters, who has been at PRH UK for 21 years, is to leave the business at Easter. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 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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PRH Children's reveals titles in first combined presentation

A “scratch and sniff” front cover for The Twits and more details about Jacqueline Wilson’s reworking of What Katy Did Next were some of the highlights of a Penguin Random House Children’s showcase, held yesterday (25th March) at Foyles Charing Cross.   The event was the first media... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 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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PRH to launch Penguin-branded consumer site

Penguin Random House UK is to launch a multi-million pound Penguin-branded consumer website in the second half of this year, but chief executive Tom Weldon reiterated the company's view that it had no plans to become a retailer, claiming that it would be "quicker for PRH to burn the money". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH’s Brightly to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Readers

Brightly is a new online resource from Penguin Random House to help parents find books that will encourage their children to become lifelong readers. The post PRH’s Brightly to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Readers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World Book Day still dominates charts

World Book Day titles continue to dominate the Official UK Top 50 with nine of the 10 titles published as part of the annual charity celebrations claiming positions within the Top 10 this week. The 10 £1 titles sold 224,433 combined copies in the seven days ending 14th March. This was down 34%... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 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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PRH launches The Scheme to attract new recruits

Penguin Random House UK has launched a programme to attract the “marketers of tomorrow”, with the company using Tumblr to find its new recruits. The Scheme is an entry level programme designed to find people who may not have previously considered a career in publishing, and will look at... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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St. Patrick's Day: New York City residents can get a free book by an Irish writer

The Irish Arts Center in New York City will be handing out thousands of books by Irish writers to NYC residents on the holiday. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-13 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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World Book Day dominates charts Top 10

World Book Day titles claimed nine of the coveted positions in the Top 10 in the most successful WBD week since 2012. A combined total of 339,133 copies of the 10 books published to celebrate the annual charity reading event (held on Thursday 5th March) registered through Nielsen BookScan in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Are viral traffic’s days numbered?

It may seem like the Internet was awash in posts about #thedress and, for that matter, runaway llamas, as of late. But a confluence of factors, from viewability to changing Facebook algorithms to falling CPMs, are making the economics of this kind of viral strategy a bit more complicated.... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH strong on Pushkin House shortlist

Two books from Penguin Random House have made the shortlist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée (Harvill Secker) has made the shortlist, alongside Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-08 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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Facebook Focus for IPG Day One

Facebook was a focus of the first day of the IPG spring conference in Chipping Norton yesterday (4th March), which saw Perseus reveal the inside story on having a book selected for the Facebook Book Club, while publishers told they are "too nice" and need to develop more attitude if they are to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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