PW’s 2020 Person of the Year: The Book Business Worker

The most important people in the book business in 2020 are not the powerhouse agents or the megabestselling authors or the Big Five CEOs. It is the collective of book business workers, often overworked and underpaid, that kept the industry afloat and challenged it to live up to greater standards. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biteback signs Vicky Pryce book

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After 37 Years, Winton Steps Back

After spending 37 years in the publishing industry, including the last five as chairman, CEO, and publisher of Counterpoint LLC, Charlie Winton turned over the publisher reins at the press to Rolph Blythe on May 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Archie Comics Grows Book Side

Like most comics publishers, Archie Comics, home to America’s favorite fictional redheaded teenager, has historically focused its distribution on newsstand sales and the comics specialty market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online Retailers, E-books Gained in 2012

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What would Microsoft buying Barnes & Noble's Nook business mean?

According to documents found by website TechCrunch, Microsoft is offering $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Short Books snaps up Iraq-set thriller

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Condé Nast scraps Easy Living magazine after eight years

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[ Media Week | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Nine-month' campaign for L,B Beatles book

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US court backs Google book plans

A US federal appeals court has questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google over its effort to digitise millions of books, suggesting that many authors could benefit from the project. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ferguson book from Birlinn

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China’s Emerging English-language Book Market

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Krasznahorkai and Stanescu Win the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards

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Book Marketing Q&A: Wiley’s Jeanenne Ray on Building Reader Communities

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“A Short History of Nuclear Folly” is GBO’s Book of the Month for May

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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