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Saturday 13th March |
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Book Trade News
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
Digital Economy Bill Likely To Be Pushed Through Before Election Senior industry figures expect controversial measures against illegal filesharing to become law before general election
'Spoon-fed' Teenagers Failing To Read Books A-level students are being discouraged from reading books by an examinations system that rewards "spoon-feeding", according to a headteachers' leader
The Story Behind 'Read An Ebook Week' For the one week only, publishers and authors offer thousands of original ebooks for free and at deep discounts to encourage book lovers around the globe to give ebooks a try
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Concludes With Big Success 840 publishers from 63 countries take part in Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
Lorin Stein Named Editor Of The Paris Review Lorin Stein will succeed Philip Gourevitch as the editor of The Paris Review
Appeal To Save Chalet Where Charles Dickens Wrote Great Expectations An appeal has been launched to raise £100,000 to save the chalet in which Charles Dickens wrote many of his famous works, including Great Expectations
The Great Surprises Of Lucky-dip Reading The best cure for ever-more regimented reading habits is to choose a book you know absolutely nothing about
£5m Bidding War Breaks Out For Cheryl Cole Autobiography Random House, HarperCollins and Penguin are all understood to be among the bidders
E-book Buyers Favour iPad Over Kindle And Co Punters out to buy an e-book reader seem set on Apple's iPad, a survey of 3171 US consumers has revealed
iPad Is Ready For Launch But UK Has To Wait Apple's iPad tablet computer will hit the shelves in the UK in late April, almost a month after US
Publisher Daab Files For Insolvency Ralf Daab confident that there are ways to reorganize the firm in cooperation with the liquidator
100 'Interested' In Buying Reader's Digest UK Optimism high for successful conclusion of administration as interest in iconic brand floods in
German Book Sales Down 7.5% Without Last Year's Meyer Sales German book sales did not leave much room for optimism in February
Google Books Settlement: March Madness Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement
Rowling Snubs Oscars To Write J.K. Rowling turned down the opportunity to present an Oscar with Twilight scribe Stephenie Meyer - because she's too busy writing her next book. |
