Thursday in October heralds book industry’s major assault on the Christmas marketThe nature of that rectangular parcel under the Christmas tree can now be predicted: it could well be a new cook book by Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsay or Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, just like last year.Or it might not even be a cook book: it could be a television star’s memoir – Sue Perkins, co-presenter of the Great British Bake Off, say, or soon to be Top Gear’s Chris Evans – or a football autobiography like Big Sam from manager and former player Sam Allardyce, or the thrilling working life of a pop star, like On the Road, marketed with the enticing query, “Want to know what really goes on during an Olly Murs UK tour?” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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What is the future of the comic book format? Will it go all digital? Continue its slow decline? Disappear? Or is due for a nostalgic revival like so much else? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The work of the book business' most imaginative, funny and prolific blurber, author Gary Shteyngart, gets immortalized in a new documentary. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's book awards time in the UK! The five Costa Book Awards were all won by women writers, while Queen Elizabeth’s New Years Honours List included several authors. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing is doing all it can to convince people to buy books and read, but still 47% of Americans don't. It's time to try something radical: let's start with men. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney’s latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year, according to Nielsen BookScan,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by a 44.9% increase in the stock price of Amazon, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index jumped 23.5% in 2012, easily beating the 7.3% gain posted by the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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AMELI, the Association Maghrebine des Editeurs du Livre Independents, was launched late last month. The organization currently has 22 members Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The printed book market fell by almost £74m in 2012, down 4.6% year on year, but the rate of decline was slowed by Fifty Shades Of Grey. Continue reading at BBC World
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The value of the printed book market slumped by almost £74m year on year in 2012 but,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Publishing Co., parent corporation of the Rome News-Tribune, Calhoun Times, Walker County Messenger, Catoosa County News, Cedartown Standard and Rockmart Journal, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 reorganization. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cultural differences aside, China's book market is itself largely a self-contained entity—politically, socially and, more importantly, economically. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Onswipe, a startup that helps publishers build websites optimized for iPads and other touchscreen devices, is closing out what sounds like a big year. Content published through the Onswipe platform reached 44 million unique visitors over the course o ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about her book 'Team of Rivals,' and what it was like to see her work come to life in Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of printed books soared to a three-year high in the UK last week as shoppers flooded the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unlike the owners of a physical tome, buyers of ebooks are licensees with lots of limitations. It's time to change the rules.There's a crass old joke about how you can never buy beer, just rent it. Who would think that the same joke applies to book buying in the digital age? Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The most recent sign that self-publishing is on the rise? New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani chose a self-released book as one of her favorite titles of the year. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The consumer ebook market was worth more than £90m in the first 10 months of 2012... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation said its publishing wing, which is set to be split off as a separate business, incurred losses of $2.1bn in the last financial year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For your holiday pleasure we offer our own version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, customized for the publishing business. Enjoy and happy holidays! Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The media conglomerate, which plans to separate its entertainment businesses from its publishing businesses into two separate listed stocks next year, said the publishing company would have reported a net loss of $2.08 billion in the year through June 30 if it had been a stand-alone company. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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