These days, it’s hard to cross the street in an urban center without bumping into a food truck. There are food truck guilds and food truck trackers. There are acclaimed chefs who got their start in the food truck business. Lucky Peach, the food magazine with hipster/intellectual cred, just devoted an entire issue to street food (a category that includes both cutting-edge food trucks and their oldfangled ancestors, food carts and ice cream trucks). In bookstores, you can buy The Food Truck Handbook, Running a Food Truck for Dummies, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Food Truck Business. Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic saw revenues plunge 32% year on year to $406.2m and operating income fall 54% in the second quarter, as its business continued to be hit by the pandemic, although trade sales rose. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 18:36:39 UTC ]
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Sales in October in the adult trade book segment rose 10.2% over 2019 at publishers that report results to AAP. Sales in the two digital formats had double digit increases in the month and, for the first 10 months of 2020, e-book sales rose 11.5% over 2019, while downloadable audio sales... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing trade bodies have welcomed advice from the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) that a new pro-competition regulatory regime "fit for the digital age" be rolled out to hold the most powerful tech firms to account through a new enforceable code of conduct. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 23:35:11 UTC ]
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'The last 20 years have seen an ever-growing chasm between academic and trade publishing on the technology front,' writes Charkin. The post Richard Charkin: ‘Chasm’ Between Academic and Trade Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-07 14:48:23 UTC ]
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After the physical events were canceled earlier this year because of the pandemic, BookExpo and its public-facing BookCon are being closed. The post ReedPop Cancels BookExpo, ‘Retiring’ the Trade Show and BookCon appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-01 19:00:11 UTC ]
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Subscription models are still better suited to academic books than trade titles, but there is still much more publishers can do with their IP, Perlego's Matthew Jones has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-20 13:10:54 UTC ]
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News Corp c.e.o. Robert Thomson has said that it would be a "serious antitrust issue" for the industry if Bertelsmann were to acquire Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 09:05:23 UTC ]
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Hachette UK c.e.o. David Shelley has warned 2021 could be a "tougher" year for the industry than 2020, in an interview with The Bookseller's editor Philip Jones at FutureBook 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 14:38:48 UTC ]
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In an attempt to become a "pure-play learning technology company," HMH is looking to sell its trade group, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media. Group president Ellen Archer has left the company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate McQuaid, currently publicity director at William Heinemann, Windmill and #Merky Books (Penguin Random House UK), is joining independent Rough Trade Books as its first publicist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-02 23:47:34 UTC ]
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The Trade Desk today announced that Nielsen has signed on as a collaborator on its Unified ID 2.0, a cookie-less, open-source sign-on solution for the open web. This marks the third such deal within a week, as LiveRamp and Criteo just pledged their respective support for The Trade Desk's... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-11-02 18:23:42 UTC ]
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Sales of adult trade books rose 8.9% through the first nine months of 2020 over the comparable period in 2019, and sales in the children/young adult segment increased 7.7% for publishers that report sales to AAP’s StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In the midst of Black History Month, the legacy of a number of Black publishers are remembered—and those they paved the way for call for further progress. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-30 00:33:57 UTC ]
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At the end of a tumultuous year for the American book trade, with shake-ups at a number of big houses and organisations, comes a pivotal race to the White House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 19:53:36 UTC ]
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A survey conducted by The Bookseller found most staffers in the children’s publishing sector were optimistic concerning its odds of surviving, and thriving, in a post-Covid market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-18 18:23:09 UTC ]
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HarperCollins affiliate publisher Rose Sandy reveals the details of its new Author Academy, which will give 90 emerging talents guidance as to how the book industry functions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 22:41:09 UTC ]
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Organizers of the 27th Beijing International Book Fair announce 1,400 exhibitors registered for their 'Smart Rights Link' online platform. The post Beijing International Book Fair Announces Rights Trading Success appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-30 20:14:52 UTC ]
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The recent imposition of a new National Security Law in Hong Kong was followed by a crackdown on libraries. There are now signs that it is also affecting the work of publishers and booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-11 03:19:34 UTC ]
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Sales of adult books rose 20.9% in the month over July 2019, and sales in the children/young adult category increased 14.5%, according to AAP's StatShot program. Sales in the K-12 instructional materials category fell 24.9% compared to last July, while sales in the higher educational course... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishers Association and Pearson are to sit in on the Creative Industries Advisory Group, to assist in steering "ongoing and upcoming trade negotiations" in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 06:08:05 UTC ]
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