That’s what Al Greco, Professor of Marketing at Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration, says after much research. The following are some of his figures and you can read the full article here: book publishing (print and electronic) in the US is a $35 billion dollar industry. This year, he forecasts that ebooks will [...]
The Daily Beast has a new president: Steve Colvin, former CEO for the U.S. arm of Dennis Publishing, The New York Post's Keith Kelly reports. Colvin, who oversaw Maxim, Blender and Stuff while at Dennis, will report to Brown at the editor's buzzy website. His duties include "revenue generation, audience development, brand development and social media. He is also charged with overseeing the recently...
by Jane Looking back on why I wanted to be agent is actually fun for me. I remember in one of my first jobs--that of permissions editor at Bantam Books--I wanted to learn more about what went on in the subsidiary rights department--“the rights department” as it is commonly known. But the woman who ran that department at Bantam at the time really didn’t want me to work for her and,...
Last night, Dear Author co-editor Jane Litte posted the contents of a rather unusual letter from the Romance Writers of America , in which professional relations manager Carol Ritter informed the romance blogger that, after three years as an associate member of RWA, she would not be permitted to renew her membership because "numerous posts on your blog and on the 'romfail' thread on Twitter that...
Japan and Japanese culture have been major influences on the life and writing of Wendy Nelson Tokunaga. She signed a two-book deal with St. Martin’s just as she was beginning the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco in 2006. Midori by Moonlight came out the following year with terrific reviews, and Love in Translation hits bookstores next week. From the press kit: After receiving...
Ratings powerhouse to close in 2011, allowing Oprah to concentrate on her own cable channel.After more than 20 years in which Oprah Winfrey shook up the medium of the daytime talkshow, rising to become a ratings and cultural powerhouse, she is to announce today that she is bringing her show to an end. Yesterday she told her 600 staff in Chicago that the Oprah Winfrey show would end in September 2011....
The numbers are in, and eBooks may very well be the bright spot in book publishing's dim future--but only if publishers can figure out a way to keep the momentum going. EBook sales accounted for $46.5 million as of the end of September , according to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), but that number only represents trade eBook sales through wholesale channels. Retail numbers may be...
From The Times November 21, 2009 Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing Mike Harvey, Technology Correspondent, The Times Digital p irates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing. With the words “dan brown lost symbol torrent” and a few clicks, anyone can download the American author’s...
Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing is the headline of a Times piece in the U.K. As reported there: –American publishers have lost “more than $600 million” to piracy, by one estimate. –Readers downloaded illegal copies of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol “more than 100,000 times” within days. –In excess of [...]
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com . Photo of Devo playing live by Steve Rhodes . MUSIC: For the first time in twenty-five years, Devo ('80s pop bastion of...
The December 09 issue of real living goes on sale today and we've featured the shop Lark Handmade . I interviewed Allison Jones about her shop for the magazine but was curious to learn more about the woman behind what's possibly the cutest shop in the world. Here's what she had to say: Which five words best describe you? Positive, hardworking, excitable, shy, hopeful. What was your first job and what...
The open source movement began in software development. People hacking code for operating systems and Big Applications started writing the same thing, but for free, and were joined by thousands of others. They were prepared to give their labour without charge to a cause for the common good. That's all rather abstract. In concrete terms it means you can now have everything from operating systems (Linux,...
Genre publishing has taken some hard hits in recent years — but a slew of independent publishers is still out there, charting the unknown regions of book publishing and keeping your reading... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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