Scholastic Takes Minority Stake in Make Believe Ideas

Scholastic will take minority equity stake in MBI and launch a cobranded line of interactive kids ebooks for early learners. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Scholastic To Donate One Million Books for Superstorm Recovery

Scholastic is donating a million books and offering free online resources to those children and teachers affected by Superstorm Sandy. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sharjah: What Happens When Rulers Take Reading Seriously

Is there an argument to be made in favor of state intervention in the book trade? If the growth of the book trade in Sharjah is any evidence, the answer is yes. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Making the Penguin Random House Merger Work

The trick to making the Random House/Penguin Group merger work will be to create a publisher that can take advantage of the resources and economies of scale a company with revenue of $4 billion brings and combine that with an editorial approach that emphasizes close cooperation with authors,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jivox Looks to Make Mobile Campaigns Smoother

Jivox,  an ad tech firm which specializes in helping companies build interactive video ads, says it has a new platform that will make executing multi-device mobile campaigns a lot easier. Specifically, the San Mateo, Calif.-based startup has rolled out a new product it claims will help... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2012-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline makes staff promotions

Headline has promoted two editorial staff members, with Vicki Mellor moving up to become deputy... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber's Thaxton makes first signings

Faber Children's publisher Leah Thaxton has signed her first titles for the imprint.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones’ Daunt Pimps for Amazon Kindle: Good Idea?

As the Kindle goes on sale at Waterstones stores, MD James Daunt has been defending the highly criticized decision, insisting it is to his company's advantage. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shepherd makes return to DK

Dan Shepherd has been announced as the new global sales and marketing director at Dorling... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DRM-Free E-Books Makes Writers A Bundle of Cash

A group of writers are quids in following an experiment to sell a bundle of DRM-free ebooks. Sales of The Humble Bundle, which included works from authors Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman and the much-loved xkcd comic strip, have been anything but humble, with over 84,000 bundles sold, earning the... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt 2012: Making the Digital Leap

At the beginning of a standing-room-only Frankfurt Book Fair discussion, Richard Mollet, CEO of the U.K. Publishers Association, said he imagined there was a day 100 or more years ago at a book fair when, after yet another panel on how electricity was going to revolutionize the business, an... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeff Bezos Reveals Amazon Makes No Dough On Its Hardware

Jeff Bezos, in the U.K. to launch the Kindle Paperwhite and Amazon's Lending Library service, has told the BBC that his firm makes no money on its Kindles. "We make money from when people use our devices, not when people buy our devices," he told technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. "That... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taking the Reading Out of Readings

Early last month Junot Díaz nearly caused a riot when hundreds of fans descended on the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City to hear the author read from his latest, This Is How You Lose Her. But, to put it mildly, not every author is Junot Díaz, and getting a crowd to hear you read... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NZ takes centre stage at Frankfurt Book Fair

New Zealand has officially taken centre stage at the world's biggest book fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus makes second US push with 'start-up'

Quercus is to make a second move into the US with a "startup operation" that will begin... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fallon to take over as Scardino steps down

Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino is to step down from her role in 2013, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Casual Vacancy takes top spot

J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown) has officially become the fastest-selling... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin takes Breathing series by self-published author

Penguin Children's has snapped up rights to The Breathing series by self-published author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four indies make Polari Prize shortlist

Four independent presses have made the shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize, with the winner... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Moser to take on Edinburgh Bookshop

The Edinburgh Bookshop is changing hands after five years so that founders Vanessa and Malcolm... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Implementation of EC price-fixing deals 'could take months'

The deals between four publishers, Apple and the European Commission over its ebook price-... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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