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E-Books Fuel Growth in Trade Publishing

Pub Date: May 23, 2013 | Reporter: Staff

Fueled by a year of strong new releases and even more widespread popularity of e-books, BookStats reports that trade publishing (adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction, and religion) experienced significant growth in calendar year 2012. While the US book industry remained relatively flat overall in 2012 at $27.1B, the trade sector grew significantly from $ Read more »

Amazon Introduces Kindle Worlds, New Publishing Model

Pub Date: May 23, 2013

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)/May. 22, 2013—Today, Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment division for its New York Times best-selling book series Gossip Girl, by  Cecily von Ziegesar Read more »

New England Book Fest Call for Entries

Pub Date: May 22, 2013 | Reporter: Staff

BOSTON, MASS/May 22, 2013–The 2013 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The day festival and awards will be held in January, 2014 at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. The competition will accept entries in non-fiction, fiction, Read more »

UK Publishers Partner With NOOK in Reading Event

Pub Date: May 16, 2013 | Reporter: Staff

LONDON/ May 16, 2013-NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, announced today that leading UK publishers have donated a selection of top children’s titles to support NOOK’s efforts to make reading more accessible and affordable across Read more »

Bertelsmann Q1 Profits Up 43 Percent

Pub Date: May 16, 2013

  Gütersloh, May 16, 2013—Bertelsmann, the international media company which owns Random House in the US, recorded a positive business performance in the first three months of the year, increasing both its operating result and net profit to record levels.   With consolidated revenues from continuing operations stable at €3.63 billion (previous year: €3.66 billion), Read more »

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Lifetime by Liza Marklund

Lifetime

Pub Date: May 23, 2013

A character that has grown popular all over the world – Annika Bengtzon comes back to prove she is the hard-headed, dedicated reporter who will solve a crime no matter what it takes Read more »

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The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

Pub Date: Apr 20, 2013

Although many have tried, no writer has quite been able to reach the ‘top rung’ on the ladder when it comes to the ‘best’ in tween fantasy (top spot being held by Harry Potter)…until now. This is a fairytale/adventure/thriller/fantasy with humor and characters readers will never forget, and everyone from tweens to adults will want to walk in this world! Read more »

y by Marjorie Celona

y by Marjorie Celona

Pub Date: Jan 18, 2013

Marjorie Celona’s uniquely titled debut novel, y, portrays the harsh reality of an abandoned child horrifically abused by foster parents. The child launches a desperate search to understand why her mother dropped her off hours after she was born in front of the YWCA (hence the title) wrapped in a sweatshirt Read more »

Dinner with Churchill by Cita Stelzer

Dinner with Churchill by Cita Stelzer

Pub Date: Jan 9, 2013

Hungry for a delicious book on diplomacy? Try a Dinner with Churchill, a compilation of unpublished material by Cita Stelzer, a researcher at Churchill College, that serves up Churchill’s “policy-making at the dinner table.” Read more »