Red Squirrel imprint Unsung Stories has acquired world rights for three titles due for publication in 2017. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#unsung stories
#titles due
Pan Macmillan has bought J Randy Taraborrelli’s new biography of Beyoncé. Editorial director Ingrid Connell acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Dorie Simmonds of the Dorie Simmonds Agency Ltd on behalf of Grand Central Publishing. Connell said: “J Randy’s books are always insightful,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#pan macmillan
#brilliantly entertaining
The Hachette Book Group has agreed to acquire Black Dog & Leventhal in a deal set to close in the next several months. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hachette agrees
The Oxford-based Casemate Group is to acquire International Publishers Marketing, the trade book distributor based in Dulles, Va. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Master and Commander author’s early nautical stories – Noughts and Crosses, Two’s Company and No Pirates Nowadays – return to print after 80 yearsThree virtually unknown short stories by Patrick O’Brian of derring-do on the high seas, featuring everything from shark fishing on the Great Barrier... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#high seas
#publisher harpercollins
Movellas is actively looking to find more books written by community members that it can take to the market, c.e.o. Joe Cohen told the FutureBook Conference today (14th November). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#books written
Two Roads has acquired The Words in My Hand, a book about a Dutch servant girl’s relationship with René Descartes. Publisher Lisa Highton bought UK rights to the book, by Guinevere Glasfurd, from Veronique Baxter at David Higham. Set in the 17th century Dutch Republic, it tells the story of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#veronique baxter
#david higham
HarperCollins Worldwide's acquisition of Harlequin has boosted its revenue and profits according to the first set of results released since the purchase was approved. Revenues for the three months ending 30th September 2014, the first quarter of the 2015 fiscal year, stood at $406m (£254m), up... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#harpercollins worldwide
#results released
New York Magazine has just come out with an in-depth profile of the intensely private Honolulu resident Pierre Omidyar. It quickly gets beyond the basics—"the programmer who created eBay, is one of America's richest men, a 47-year-old philanthropist intent on giving away the fortune he made when... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#york magazine
#richest men
#personal journey
The most dominant story in magazine media over the last decade-the decline in print as digital media surges-may be changing, according to an all-star panel of ad agency executives at a min breakfast Thursday. There was general consensus on the panel of four that the decline has stopped and... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#print media
#agency execs
#magazine media
Random House Children’s Books has acquired the Now I’m Reading! product line of books from innovativeKids, a toy and education company based in Norwalk, Ct. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#product line
St. Martin's Press has acquired the debut novel 'Everybody Rise,' by Stephanie Clifford, in a seven-figure book deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#smp buys
#stephanie clifford
Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks is to publish a book of short stories inspired by his personal collection of vintage typewriters. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Start Publishing, which has bought a number of ebook publishing companies over the last 18 months, has made its biggest purchase to date, acquiring the assets of Cleis Press, Viva Editions, and Tempted Romance. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#start publishing
#biggest purchase
#cleis press
#viva editions
In a recent survey by industry newsletter Shelf Awareness, the novel 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' by Shirley Jackson was booksellers' top pick for a great spooky tale. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#recent survey
#shirley jackson
Pan Macmillan is to publish Uprooted, the new novel from fantasy writer Naomi Novik. Editorial director Julie Crisp acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Del Rey, part of Penguin Random House in the US. Novik is the author of the Temeraire series, published in the UK by Harper Voyager. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#pan macmillan
#del rey
#harper voyager
Leicester-based writer Mahsuda Snaith has won the 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize for her work "The Art of Flood Survival". Snaith, announced as the winner of the £1,000 prize on Saturday (25th October), beat almost 2,500 other entrants from more than 60 countries to win the competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
A short story collection by Kuwaiti author Mai Al-Nakib has won the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#short stories
#book award
With Port Harcourt, Nigeria serving as UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, African book publishers consider the future for Africa's writers. The post “The West is Running Out of Stories,” say Africans appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The failure of the Fire Phone has been widely cited as the reason for Amazon’s disastrous quarter, but a darker cloud has settled over the world’s biggest online retailer. The core of Amazon’s business—its original reason for being: selling books and other media—has grown wobbly. The problem:... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#post apple
#people don
#fire phone
#selling books
#buy stuff
Patrick Rothfuss is the author of the mega-bestselling novels The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, and is currently hard at work on The Doors of Stone, the final volume in his epic fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle. In the latest episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy he discusses... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book appeared
#patrick rothfuss
#final volume
#latest episode