Authors to Get Sales Data Online From 3 Big Publishers New York Times The site also features links to publishing news and instructional tips on using social media, blogs and videos to promote their books. Agents and authors said they welcomed the news. “It's a growing move toward transparency that the business has been ... | ||
Barnes & Noble expands marketplace beyond books Reuters Barnes & Noble, the largest US bookstore chain, has largely focused on books for its marketplace. Members will now also be able to buy and sell items such as rugs, cooking utensils, games and items for babies on its website from some 20 third-party ... | ||
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Powell's Books Selects SunGard Availability Services to Host Its Mission ... MarketWatch (press release) WAYNE, Pa., Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon's legendary, independent bookstore, has chosen SunGard Availability Services to host mission-critical applications, including its e-commerce website, www.powells.com ... | ||
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The IFOA Questionnaire: Yvvette Edwards National Post I am a passionate reader and I love listening to authors talking about their creative process and the books they've published, even more when they have penned a book I have read and love. My interest in writing and writers is infinite, ... | ||
Publishing App Expo Set for December in New York City Graphics.com The event will teach attendees how to build apps within budget, maximize discoverability and monetize content across publishing platforms. The conference unites book and magazine publishers, developers, digital content strategists, editors, authors and ... | ||
Should Linking Equal Publishing When It Comes To Defamatory Content? WebProNews Crookes' argument was that the hyperlinks created by Newton connected to the defamatory content, and by publishing the links, he was in turn publishing the defamatory content himself. The majority of the panelists of the Court held that hyperlinks are ... | ||
Amazon May Launch Kindle In Japan This Year MocoNews Japanese publishers, like publishers all around the world, have worried about Amazon selling their e-books at extremely low prices. Also, according to a recent article in Publishing Perspectives, Japanese publishers have long distributed their books ... | ||
Books for young adult readers: landscape changes after Harry Potter and Twilight Winnipeg Free Press Geoffrey Taylor, director of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, said there are various levels of reading ability — and books aimed at teens could potentially appeal to those aged 10 to 50. "Take a look at the Lemony Snicket series. ... | ||
Human books share immigrant experience insideTORONTO.com Human books share immigrant experience. Organizers of the Parkdale Newcomer Human Library event (from left) Elton D'Costa, Cathy Moran and Shova Adhikari. The event takes place Oct. 22 from 1 to 4 pm at the Parkdale Branch of the Toronto Public Library ... | ||
Books and Booker Indian Express The trouble with a career prize is the moment chosen to award a career. With the Nobel, one expectedly waits every year for a while. But with a public list of contenders, and professedly aimed at the best product of the year, every Booker shortlisted ... | ||
E-Books in the Round: Google's Digital Bookcase Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) The digital designers at Google have come up with a new way to browse Google Books. The challenge - designing a 21st century virtual bookcase to display e-books. They "imagined something that looks like the shelves in your living room, but online—many ... | ||
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Twain still inspires today's authors Yale Daily News While the three authors entertained their listeners, who had paid $25–$65 to attend the benefit, with stories from their childhoods and other anecdotes, they also discussed more serious topics such as the future of publishing in an increasingly digital ... | ||
Better Books taking part in the community Kuwait Times By Sawsan Kazak, Staff Writer Hidden away on a small side street in Salmiya is the secondhand book store Better Books and Cafe. Walking down into the basement store, the first thing you become aware of is a smell of books reminiscent of the days spent ... | ||
Simon & Schuster gives its authors sales data access - latimes.com By Carolyn Kellogg The data come from different sales channels, including mass market stores, national acocunts and warehouse clubs. These data are aggregated: Authors won't be able to see how many of their bookssold at, say, Target versus Barnes & Noble ... Jacket Copy | ||
Authors No Longer Need to Obsessively Check Amazon Sales ... By Emily Witt Amazon Publishing has been pushing its image as an author-friendly publisher, with one of the advertised perks being the ability for authors to access sales data for individual markets from Nielsen BookScan — at least for sales of physical ... The New York Observer | ||
Amazon to Start Publishing Its Own Books :: Books :: News :: Paste In the coming weeks it will publish 122 books spanning multiple genres, poised to compete alongside major existing publishing houses in New York and instilling fear in the hearts of publishers everywhere. ... According to The New York Times, the news of Amazon's new strategy has sent publishers into hysteria, with agent and e-book publisher Richard Curtis explaining Amazon's decision to allow authors to self-publish directly through the new imprint as “an old strategy: divide and ... Paste Magazine | ||
Amazon Brings Big Guns To The Publishing War By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry It is securing exclusive deals. It is building its own publishing house. It is doing everything to increase the number of available titles . . . | ||
Ebooks or Printed Books: Which Are Better for You? By Veena Bissram A study examines the differences in reading from an electronic device versus traditional printed text. Mashable | ||
Google WebGL Bookcase Displays Books on an Infinite Helix - How ... By Jason Fitzpatrick Google Books now has a (rather experimental) and flashy new interface styled after a helix. Check out the video to see it in action. Google likes redesigning things, and in this case, they redesigned the bookcase. From the announcement: ... the How-To Geek | ||
Flavorwire » Fake Books from Fiction That We Wish We Could Read By Romy Oltuski Within literature's greatest books lives another library of books, unpublished and unwritten, nested in other books, imagined by their authors and materialized only in the imaginations of their readers — a painfully vast body of potentially brilliant ... Flavorwire | ||
Literary Agency Sells 520 Books In One Deal, Raising Questions ... By Publetariat In addition, later that month, one of the first UK agents to move into publishing – Sonia Land – was dramatically cut out of a publishing deal by one of her own authors – Tom Sharpe – who made a backlist deal directly with his publisher. ... www.publetariat.com |
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