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Monday 13th February |
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Book Trade News
First-Ever Academy Awards (Book) Contest In honor of Oscar season and the fact that six of the nine Best Picture nominees are based on books, PW are holding a contest
British Children Are Culture Starved Half of parents said they made little effort to educate their children about culture or history and relied on schools to do so
James Joyce Children's Book Sparks Feud Zurich James Joyce Foundation has called publication of The Cats of Copenhagen an "outrage"
Why Penguin Terminated Its Contract With Overdrive Publisher contracts with OverDrive allow them to store and serve library end users ebooks. That's it.
Dublin History Book Costs The Republic's Government £800 For Each Copy Sold Eight years late and six times over budget
Judging Books By Their Covers: Usa Vs Uk U.K. and U.S. covers often differ from one another, suggesting that certain layouts and imagery will better appeal to readers on one side of the Atlantic rather than the other
RNA shortlists announced Romantic Novelists Association Romantic Novel of the Year and Love Story of the Year shortlists have been announced
Foyles Launches New Ebook App Free app is powered by Txtr and allows users to import books protected by Adobe's DRM system which they may have purchased from other booksellers
Occupy Wall Street Claims The City Ruined Its Library A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement filed a claim on behalf of the group that the city had damaged or destroyed $47,000 worth of books
ABA has NOT joined the Amazon boycott Bombshell Correction: PW's early report was wrong
James Joyce Children's Story Discovered James Joyce children's story The Cats of Copenhagen gets first publication
Critic Says Irish President's Poems Are A 'Crime Against Literature' Being President of Ireland is no protection from the critics
Penguin US Ends E-Book Library Lending Severs Relationship With OverDrive
Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward New court filings this week suggest a possible end game
Spain's B de Books Experiments With DRM-free E-books, Self-published Authors To succeed, the digital imprint had to be fully autonomous from the bread-and-butter core business: paper books
25% Of Hive Book Sales Since October Were Digital Nearly a quarter of all books sold on Hive since October have been digital, Gardners has revealed
E-textbooks On The Cusp? The tools and technology are there, publishers just have to figure it out how to capitalize on the opportunities
Indigo Third Quarter Profits Down Although revenue was up slightly, Indigo Books & Music, reported net profits that were down significantly from the third quarter in the previous year
Bertelsmann Announces Preliminary Figures For 2011 Cites 'Rapidly Growing' E-book Sales
GigaOm Buys PaidContent Guardian News & Media sells after 3 years, takes minority stake in GigaOm
Author Solutions dances into the DIY e-book market with Booktango Author Solutions, one of the largest self-publishers in the U.S., has entered the DIY e-book market in a big way with Booktango
HarperCollins Appears to Have Mixed Quarter HC UK had good quarter but HarperCollins US and international markets "had challenging comparisons to the prior year."
Publish And Let Your Peers Be The Judges Open-access online journal will speed release of data and encourage feedback
Ban On Same-sex Stories In Romance Competition Causes Outcry Romance Writers Ink's 'More than Magic' contest accepts vampires and werewolves but not gay and lesbian tales
Why Foreign Bestsellers Often Fail In Japan How is a foreign author supposed to crack the Japanese book market? |