Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 08:45 Discount retailer The Works has said it hopes to expand its stores in the UK by nearly 150, as well as growing its e-commerce business with the sale of ebooks. The retailer has opened 43 new stores this yearbringing its total to 304but Garry Wilson, m.d. of parent company Endless LLP, said the chain could increase its overall portfolio to 450an increase of 48% on 2010's figure read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Blackboard, a learning management system that provides the online educational environment for many higher educational institutions, plans to launch an online bookstore for its platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Simon Fox's company closed two tablet editions recently, but at the least the regional publisher is trying to make digital workThis week brought sad news for fans of Business Daily, the Birmingham Post's online tablet e-edition, which Trinity Mirror closed after just seven months.It makes you... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Leading biologist and author regrets 'careless' inclusion of unattributed work in his acclaimed 2011 book on ageingProfessor Lewis Wolpert, the eminent developmental biologist and author, has admitted incorporating unattributed text from a variety of sources in his recent popular science... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Eighty California indies are signed up to participate in the statewide California Bookstore Day on May 3, 2014, featuring exclusive publisher titles for sale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Australian publisher Allen & Unwin has bought a majority share in Atlantic Books, following a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Self-publishing sees traditional publishing as in denial about what readers want. But the problem isn't self-abnegation, it's capacity and mission. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Rhondda Cynon Taf has approved budget plans that will see more than half of its 26 libraries... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Peters Fraser & Dunlop (PFD) has become a majority shareholder of authors’ agency... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Actor Shia LaBeouf posted the short film he directed, "HowardCantour.com," online Monday. Hours after, comic book fans began noticing the work bore a resemblance to Daniel Clowes' "Justin M. Damiano."Actor Shia LaBeouf posted the short film he directed and screened at Cannes,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Lindsay Lohan now has a literary agent, according to TMZ. And where a literary agent with celebrity clients goes, book deals tend to follow.Lindsay Lohan now has a literary agent, according to TMZ. And where a literary agent with celebrity clients goes, book deals tend to follow. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The 2013 PA International Conference in London lamented the general lack of appreciation for the role of publishers and lauded the revival of indie booksellers. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Co. took a key step in the planned spinoff of its publishing business on Monday, filing a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
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The Impress Project aims to attract newspapers and publishers that want a regulator 'independent of owners and politicians'The former editor of the Sunday Times, Sir Harold Evans, is backing an initiative to set up a press regulator to rival the body being launched by the publishers of the Sun,... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Chancellor's measures to help film business likely to encourage more Hollywood studios to use British post-production facilitiesThe UK's film special effects industry has received a shot in the arm with the government announcing plans to make it easier for Hollywood studios to qualify for UK tax... Continue reading at The Guardian
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When we reviewed the GameStick Android console, one of our main concerns was how the library of titles on offer would pan out over time. Today, it's just been announced that Ubisoft will be bringing its Prince of Persia franchise to the platform. .. Continue reading at Engadget
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The Indies First movement garnered more than 1,000 authors working at bookstores across the US and in Canada for Small Business Saturday, including James Patterson and Garth Stein. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Amazon is testing drones called "Octocopters" which could potentially deliver customers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Forty years ago this fall, a University of Chicago graduate student named Curt Matthews and his wife, Linda Matthews, founded Chicago Review Press, naming it after the Chicago Review literary journal, for which Curt was then poetry editor. Operating initially out of the couple’s basement, CRP’s... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Angelica Huston's memoir has received mainly positive reviews and is the first of a planned two-part work. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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