The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is pleased to announce a major new research initiative to study subscription models of selling published content. Given the success of digital subscription services in the film, television, and music industries, publishing industry...
Almost a century after its premiere, the 1920 silent movie classic “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” directed by Robert Wiene, can now be experienced in digital cinema quality (4K). With its comprehensive digital restoration, the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau...
Business journalism contest makes nationwide call for entries The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards is now accepting submissions for its 2014 contest. The program honors professional and student...
The Newhouse School is now accepting nominations for the eighth annual Mirror Awards honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Enter online; the application deadline is Feb. 14, 2014. Anyone may nominate, and there is no fee to enter. Award categories include:...
The 2014 Great Northwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring season. The Great Northwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
Book Industry Study Group's BISAC 2013 to Thema 1.0 mapping is now available. Thema is a new global subject classification system for books and e-books, with wide and growing international participation. The goal of the BISAC 2013 to Thema 1.0 mapping is to...
The 2014 Great Southeast Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring. The Great Southeast Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
On the morning of January 24, 1989—twenty-five years ago this month—serial sex killer Ted Bundy was strapped into “Old Sparky,” the electric chair in the Florida State Prison’s execution chamber. In a cow pasture across from the...
2014 Great Southwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to to its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring season. The Great Southwest Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, and OverDrive, the premier eBook distributor for libraries, today announced a pilot launch of the Simon & Schuster eBook catalog for select OverDrive partner public libraries in the United...
