Random House enjoyed a record year in 2012, with worldwide sales up 23% and profits up by 76%. In... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Not a good sign for the magazine business: A rough quarter for Time Inc. the world's biggest magazine publisher. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Robert M. Sacks In any given year, I give about a dozen “talks” about the publishing industry. Sometimes it is to interested companies and sometimes it is to the industry at large during publishing conventions... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What connects teenagers and newspapers? For years, that has been quite a difficult question. It is uncommon to find teenagers reading the newspaper, as most would rather read comic books or do another activity. Newspapers, which are considered an ad ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Pearson PLC (PSON.LN), the publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, Friday produced a healthy rise in first-quarter revenue, but warned profit will be down in the first half of 2012 due to seasonal effects an ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 400 authors are scheduled over the two days at USC. Writers as varied as Anne Rice and Jeff Kinney will hold court.What do Sugar Ray Leonard, Judy Blume, Betty White, T.C. Boyle, Rodney King, Joseph Wambaugh and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have in common? They're just a few of the high-profile... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Moving forward with an expanded focus on digital media, Time Out New York (TONY) has integrated e-commerce and daily deals into its website and newly-launched apps. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau is addressing a problem that's plagued tech-centric industries since the first Mac-vs.-Dos argument: standardization. The problem has become acute for Web video, an industry enjoying meteoric growth, and the growing pains that come with that growth. So the IAB... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An interracial couple navigates modern life in South African in 'No Time Like the Present,' by Nadine Gordimer.No Time Like the Present Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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and Matthew Flamm - The magazine industry saw slightly fewer launches in the first quarter of 2012, compared to a year ago, but—on the positive side—there were many fewer closures, according to a survey released Monday by MediaFinder, the online database of U.S. and Canadian publications. Not... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although worldwide sales at Random House fell 4.3% in 2011, the company posted its highest earnings and operating margins in at least five years. EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose 6.9%, to 185 million euros, with an operating margin of 10.6%, a full percentage point higher than... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins UK and International recorded its highest turnover and best margin for three years... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The literary genre is white-hot in Hollywood, with filmmakers bidding on unpublished books and paying as much as $1 million for the rights to relatively modest sellers.The back-to-back blockbuster successes of "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and now "The Hunger Games" have turned the hunt for fresh... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The lucrative James Bond novels return to Random House, their original publisher, through a new deal. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty years after it was founded by former Pantheon publisher Andre Schiffrin as a nonprofit publisher with a mission statement to publish “in the public interest,” the New Press is on something of a roll. The house has a new bestseller—Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow—spacious offices in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost two-thirds of industry leaders from the publishing industry foresee that newspapers and other print publishers will end up as digital-only enterprises by 2020, according to a survey conducted by MPP Global Solutions. Conducted during two web ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Freedom' author Jonathan Franzen, who has previously disparaged Facebook and ebooks, says Twitter 'stands for everything I oppose' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since the San Francisco Examiner was published 125 years ago - March 4, 1887 - for the first time bearing on the masthead "W.R. Hearst Proprietor" - Hearst Corporation has been an organization constantly changing, growing, innovating. What st ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oddly, Random House deciding to triple the price of its ebooks for libraries is being considered a compromise. While others, like Penguin, are pulling their electronic tomes from the virtual shelves of our lending institutions, Random House is at least willing to still play ball -- even if it's... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child is the most successful British Kindle book author worldwide, followed by Stephen... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retailers have welcomed the "huge news" J K Rowling is to publish her first novel for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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