Weekly E-Ranking: Kay makes surgical strike for all-time record

Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) is now dizzingly close to a Weekly E-Book Ranking chart record no-one could have predicted, as it claims its 18th weekly number one. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-02 05:52:23 UTC ]
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Hot first-week sales for Inferno

Dan Brown's hotly anticipated Inferno (Bantam Press) has become one of the fastest-selling... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One Week Left to Register for Reaching Readers Conference

Recharge your book marketing strategy, boost your outreach success and build lasting relationships with readers and customers at the Reaching Readers Conference on May 28. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Censorship Be Damned: Fifty Shades of Grey Makes Its Way Into China

Despite the lack of a publisher and censorship issues, pirated copies of "Fifty Shades of Grey" are proving popular at Chinese online bookstores. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Making Nonprofit Stores Pay Off

When Granada Books opens in downtown Santa Barbara, Calif., next month, it will operate on a hybrid model with a for-profit bookstore and a not-for-profit event series, Pomegranate Arts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette makes ebooks available to libraries

Hachette, the last holdout among America's "big six" publishers, will make its full ebook catalog available to nonprofit public libraries and school libraries across the nation on May 8th. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Warner 1Q earnings climb

Earnings at Time Warner Inc. grew 24% in the first three months of the year despite a slight drop in revenue, as the company benefited from strength in its television networks.Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that first-quarter net income was $720 million, or 75 cents per share, compared with... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2013-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Porterville Recorder Has New Owner

The Porterville Recorder has been sold to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, Inc., effective Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers is a privately owned publisher of several daily and weekly newspapers in Rhode Island. It will be b ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A ‘Perfect’ American Novel Strikes Gold Overseas

Why isn’t this book more famous?” asked the writer C.P. Snow about John Williams’s Stoner in 1973, eight years after it was first published by Viking Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Times' Google Glass App Reads Stories to You

The New York Times is one of the initial major publishers to unveil a Google Glass app, which will allow the currently scant number of users of the wearable device to access stories on the go. The app's audio component reads headlines and story summaries aloud and provides breaking news alerts. ... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transformative Time for Tin House

Over the past decade and a half Tin House magazine, which began publishing in spring 1999, and Tin House Books, which started as an imprint with Bloomsbury in 2002 before becoming an independent press in 2005, have carved out a niche in the small press world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber makes ‘powerful’ young adult acquisition

Faber has made a further YA acquisition, with publisher Leah Thaxton buying UK and Commonwealth... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Making Preorders Work For Indies

Most readers who preordered Charlaine Harris’s forthcoming Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After (which will be released May 7), likely did so at Amazon, where it is 45% off and has hovered in the top 50 for weeks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Another 20 Make List of Top Spanish-Speaking Publishing Pros

The Fundación El Libro and Buenos Aires Book Fair have added another 20 new names to the original 50 on their list of the most inspiring people in the Spanish-language book trade. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amsterdam and Dutch Publishers to Speak Spanish for 3 Weeks

Amsterdam will take on the role of city of honor at the upcoming Buenos Aires Book Fair and strengthen the relationship between Latin America and Holland. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An End To The Aggregation Debate? Repost Makes It Easy To Embed Articles

A new startup called Repost aims to make it easy for online publishers to distribute their articles via embedding — the same way I can share a video from YouTube or a document from Scribd directly in a blog post.   Right now, if I saw ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Printed book sales rebound after poor week

Sales of printed books jumped more than £1m last week, after the value of the market hit a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Frost: his 10 favorite books of all time

In addition to being a master writer, celebrated American poet Robert Frost was also a master reader. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MDS Australia to make redundancies

Macmillan Distribution Service's Australian arm is reportedly to make 50 positions redundant... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thatcher memoir to be published this week

HarperCollins imprint HarperPress will publish Margaret Thatcher’s autobiography as a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Providing Story Time in Español: Spanish Supplement Spring 2013

Despite budget cuts and insufficient bilingual staffing, United States libraries continue to invest money expanding Spanish-language children’s and YA collections. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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