Simon & Schuster and Pan Macmillan have scored two titles each on the next Richard and Judy Book Club with W H Smith. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird has acquired world rights in a multi-book deal with foster carer Angela Hart. Carole Tonkinson acquired rights direct from Hart, who is using a pseudonym. The first book will be Terrified: The heartbreaking true story of a girl nobody loved and the woman who saved... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers in the US including Hachette Book Group, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are making $250m (£163m) in free ebooks available to low-income students as part of a scheme announced today (30th April) by President Obama. The new ebook commitments, to cover a three-year... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has pre-empted a book by the v.p. of business innovation at Google [X], the company behind Google Glass and the self-driving car. Carole Tonkinson bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Solve For Happy: Engineering Your Path to Uncovering the Joy Inside by Mo Gawdat, who likes to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playster, a digital multimedia streaming platform, will now sell ebooks from Simon & Schuster on a subscription basis. The post Playster Streaming Service to Offer Simon & Schuster Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Alice Peterson has moved from Quercus to Simon & Schuster in a six-figure deal. S&S publishing director Jo Dickinson bought world rights to two novels from The Agency Group’s Diana Beaumont, in the latter’s first deal since joining the company from the Rupert Heath Literary Agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Horobin, previously group sales, marketing and publicity director at Simon & Schuster, is to join the recently launched Bonnier Publishing Fiction division as executive director with responsibility for sales and marketing. Horobin, who left S&S last month, will take up his new... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon started mending its tattered relationship with the big five publishers last year, signing deals with Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and even Hachette. Now it's HarperCollins' turn to make peace with the e-commerce giant, according to The Wall Str... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tasker, who has held positions at Simon & Schuster and Scholastic, most recently served as v-p, product development at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has promoted Gill Richardson to the role of sales director, as Elv Moody steps down from the position of editorial director of children's fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a romantic memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Brinkley-Rogers. Carole Tonkinson pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights to Please Enjoy Your Happiness for Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird imprint from Michael V Carlisle at InkWell Management. Please Enjoy Your... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired the first standalone thriller from crime writer Mari Hannah. Publishing director Wayne Brookes bought UK and Commonwealth rights including Canada to The Silent Room from Oli Munson at A M Heath. Hannah is the author of a series of novels, published by Pan Macmillan,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oyster has launched an online ebook store in the US. The subscription company, which started out in September 2013 charging $9.95 a month for unlimited ebooks, has now expanded into online retail, launching an ebook store where customers can pay for individual titles. While only S&S,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan, book marketing in 2015 is all about mobile, millennials, and the interplay of real and virtual worlds. — a topic she'll address at the LBF's Digital Minds conference next Monday. The post New Trends in Book Marketing: Mobile, Millennials and More appeared first... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The backstory of Steven Rowley’s new nearly seven-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster is the stuff of publishing fairy tales. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Danielle Steel has signed a 10-book contract with Pan Macmillan, moving to the publisher from Transworld, where she has been for the last 26 years. Jeremy Trevathan, publisher of Macmillan adult books, signed UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in a deal negotiated with Cullen Stanley... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster will publish a book by William Sitwell on how Lord Woolton kept Britain fed during the Second World War. Non-fiction publishing director Iain MacGregor acquired world rights for Eggs or Anarchy in a deal with Caroline Michel at PFD. The book looks at Woolton's time as the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan is to publish the sequel to the late Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus). An incomplete draft of the new book, which does not yet have a title and which was started by Mandela before his death last year, is in the archives of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird Books has pre-empted rights to Emotional Success: Harnessing the Power of Gratitude, Compassion, Pride and Guilt by psychology professor and Yale PhD, David De Steno. Bluebird’s Carole Tonkinson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A near-record haul from Hachette UK, an impressive total for Pan Macmillan and a history-making all-female Manager of the Year category are some of the highlights in this year's Bookseller Industry Awards (BIA) shortlists. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK is to publish the new novel by Isabel Allende, as well as four backlist titles by the author. Fiction editorial director Rowan Cope acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Simon & Schuster US division Atria, where v.p. and executive editor Johanna Castillo acquired... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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