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Saturday 4th February |
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Book Trade News
Blue Peter Seeks Best Children's Book Of Last Decade Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Theodore Boone are among the books vying for the title
Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits To E-book Lending Random House officials said the "terms of sale" for Random House e-books to libraries will change
Tulisa Signs Three-book Deal For Tell-all Memoir Fierce bidding war, apparently
BEA Adds Children's Day Reed Exhibitions and the American Booksellers Association have made a number of tweaks
Children Lap Up Storytelling Session At New Selfridges Library Schooldchildren from across London are being invited to Selfridges - not to shop, but for reading lessons with a difference
Waterstones Ends Unpaid Work Placements After Investigation Waterstones stops using unpaid jobseekers, as government rejects claim scheme is contrary to Human Rights Act
Crime Novels Dominate Library Lending Crime thrillers are the most borrowed books from British libraries
£2m Share Sell-off By Chief Executive Has WH Smith Sliding Raising capital to buy herself more property, according to a company spokesperson
The Future Of Libraries: Meeting The Minister Alan Gibbons, Julia Donaldson, John Holland, and Gary Green enjoy 'a blunt, purposeful exchange of views' with culture minister Ed Vaizey
Revenge Of The Interns Former interns sues Harper's Bazaar seeking unpaid wages
Wislawa Szymborska Dead At 88 Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the "Mozart of poetry," has died in her hometown of Krakow
Amazon Results Spotlight Digital Books A slowdown in Amazon's content sales in North America cast a spotlight on how digital books are altering the online retailer's revenue model
Elsevier Begins Outreach As Push-back On Publisher Threatens To Widen Online protest stirs the scientific publishing industry
B&N Discover Great New Writers Awards Announces Finalists Winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble
Facebook Unveils Stock Market Flotation Plans The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, has announced plans for a stock market flotation
Amazon To Launch In India As Junglee.com Amazon is launching in India as Junglee.com
Bernard Schlink Sues The Weinstein Co. Over Movie Profits Schlink and Diogenes, publishers of the novel on which The Reader is based have sued The Weinstein Company in a dispute over profit participation
AAP eBook Sales Nudge Back Up In November, As Children's Hardcovers Shine November 2011 sales of children's and YA hardcover titles rose 27% over the same period in 2010 and audiobook downloads rose 25.9% over the same period according to the AAP's monthly sales figures
National Libraries Day National Libraries Day will take place on 4th February 2012
CPI UK To Install Second Inkjet Line At Croydon Facility Part of a bid to expand its digital capacity
'Jerusalem' By Guy Delisle Wins Angouleme Comic Festival Prize Canadian graphic novelist Guy Delisle won this year's Fauve d'Or, or Best Comic Book Award at the prestigious Angouleme Comic Festival
Paulo Coelho: 'You Are Welcome To Download My Books For Free' Coelho urges his readers to download his work on peer-to-peer file sharing sites
BAM Picks CoverCake to Track Social Media Book Data Books-A-Million is teaming up with CoverCake who track book trends and overall online interest in titles and publishers across multiple social media platforms
Weak School Year Drops Results at McGraw-Hill Education Hurt by a 14% decline in revenue in its school group, total revenue at McGraw-Hill Education fell 6% in 2011, to $2.29 billion
Amazon's Profit Drops 57% As Heavy Spending Continues Operating expenses rose 38% |