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Thursday 11th March |
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Book Trade News
E-book ISBN Mess Needs Sorting Out, Say UK Publishers The situation is like it was back in the 1960s, in the pre-ISBN days of printed books: a bit of a mess
David Foster Wallace's Archive Acquired By University Of Texas Manuscripts, annotated books and juvenilia to be made available following the acquisition of the late David Foster Wallace's archive by the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Centre
Google Partners With Italy For Groundbreaking Book Scanning Deal Google is to scan up to one million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence
Amazon.com Removes Buy Buttons From All Of Diamond's Publishers Comics from Marvel, Dark Horse and IDW now temporarily unavailable
Penguin US Launches Science Books Imprint Makes A Bet On Niche Publishing
Best Translated Book Award Winners Poetry award goes to Elena Fanailova for The Russian Version, with fiction award to Gail Hareven for The Confessions of Noa Weber
Women To Watch In The Arts List Revealed The women to watch are expected to lead the way in design, libraries, literature, museums, heritage, music, performing and visual arts, the historic environment and creative businesses
Lagardère 2009 Full-year Results Success of Stephenie Meyer's books fueled double-digit top-line growth for Hachette in the United States, and a dynamic sales performance in the United Kingdom and Australia
Group Calls For Amazon Boycott ProgressNow Colorado is calling on its 200,000 members to boycott the online retailer until the e-tailer reinstates its Associates program
Amazon's Potential Canadian Move Could Be Precedent Setting For Foreign Owners "...a promise on Amazon's behalf to deliver Canadian content wouldn't be enough..."
Samsung Partners With Barnes & Noble On New E-reader E6—will be released in the U.S. in the April-May time frame with a MSRP of $299 and a tie-in to the Barnes & Noble's eBookstore
More Dark Clouds On The Horizon Bring Challenges For Retailers More warnings about the prospects for the economy and its effect on retail in 2010 emerged last week, with indications from one retailer that the sector is not out of the woods yet
Amazon.com's Top 100 Book List Has Returned To Reality Amazon/Diamond Deal with Aftermath of Computer Pricing Snafu
Hilary Duff Signs Multi-book Deal With Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing World rights deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers to publish her first-ever young adult fiction series
Berlin Verlag Launches Open Access Academic Press Titles will be available via print on demand and in a variety of e-book formats
Books Overtake Games As Most Numerous iPhone Apps Number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games
China Publishing Group Plans Shanghai Listing In 2010 China Publishing Group plans to raise as much as 1.8 billion yuan ($264 million) in an initial public offering in Shanghai by the end of this year
Amazon Drops Colorado Associates Program Because of new legislation, Amazon has stopped advertising through its Colorado associates
UK Retail Sales Rebound In February Retail sales bounced back in February after a tough January on the High Street
Amazon.com Glitch Offers Super Discounts On Graphic Novels Amazon.com's Top 100 Book List was filled with comics and graphic novels after a computing error heavily discounted hundreds if not thousands of graphic novel titles
Borders USA Makes Store Layoffs In What Employees Dub 'Black Thursday' It took a little longer than employees thought, but the expected cuts in the store workforce at Borders began last week
The Independent Publishing Awards 2010 — Shortlists Announced The IPG has announced the shortlists for the 2010 Independent Publishing Awards, run with The Bookseller and London Book Fair
Saudi Security Confiscate Books By Reformer Saudi security forces confiscated books of a well-known reformer and critic of the royal family from stalls at the kingdom's annual international book fair
Jamie Byng Goes For Bling Dizzee Rascal joins Canongate
Man 'Asian' Literary Prize: Restructured Only interested in the stuff that's already been taken on by English-language publishers |
