Turning Up the Volume on Audiobooks in Canada

A BookNet Canada study reveals growing sales and library circulation of audiobooks, but consumers are having some problems finding the audiobooks they want. The post Turning Up the Volume on Audiobooks in Canada appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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PRH Canada Cancels Ghomeshi's Book

Penguin Random House Canada has canceled the forthcoming book by former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi, who is currently embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kent Leaving HC Canada Amid Fulfillment Changes

HarperCollins Canada president and CEO David Kent will leave the company at the end of the year following the decision to move fulfillment of HC Canada's titles in Canada to R.R. Donnelley. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Margolin’s Heyday Turns 40

Heyday Books is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Malcolm Margolin—who founded the company in Berkeley, Calif., at the beginning of the small-press movement—said that one reason for Heyday’s survival has been its willingness to adapt to changes in the industry, such as the growth of... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editorial Assistant Turns Blog Post into Multibook Deal

What’s every blogger’s dream? A book deal. Even better: a multibook deal from a single blog post. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Klein Wins Canada's Biggest Nonfiction Prize

Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate' has won the C$60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literacy Partners Turns 40

Dianne Kangisser opened the New York City chapter of Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA), a nonprofit that provides free literacy services to adults, in 1973, using $500 in federal grant money. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Canada Merges Distribution

As a part of the merger, Penguin Canada's books will migrate south to be distributed from Penguin Random House of Canada's facilities in the U.S. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Palimpsest turns publisher with collections of Scottish writing

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[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canada's Big Fiction Prize Grows

The founder of Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize announced yesterday that the prize purse will double, to C$140,000. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Religion Update 2014: What Turns Librarians On—and Off

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Harlequin TEEN Turns Five

Celebrating its fifth birthday this month, Harlequin TEEN—Harlequin’s dedicated imprint for young adult books—has quite a few things to be excited about. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Turns out traditional publishers do just fine with millennials

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Liberio review: Turn your Google Docs into a published ebook

Now that eBooks have enabled anyone to be a published author, more would-be scribes are submitting their work directly through digital storefronts like Kindle Direct Publishing. Yet even with this radical change in the book industry, the e-publishing process is hardly simple. In fact the... Continue reading at PC World

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Obituary: Audiobook Producer Bob Deyan

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Evernote turns your prose into published books

Looking to get that novel you've been plugging away at in your "spare time" published with ease? Well, Evernote now offers an option for doing just that, thanks to a partnership with FastPencil. The note-taking and productivity repository allows you... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some Amazon users spotted an ad for a Kindle Unlimited service, which would let users access as many ebook and audio titles as they wanted (within a certain library) for $9.99 a month. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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