Editor & Publisher – 2012-04-05
The closure of News of the World
has so far triggered charges of almost £250m, with its publisher
admitting that the final total could well be significantly more.
News Group Newspapers,
the parent company of the Sun and now-defunct News of ...
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France is claiming a world first with its imminent adoption of a new law that lays down the rules... | The Bookseller – 2012-02-03
The Daily Mail has overtaken The New York Times to become the world's biggest newspaper site, according to data from comScore. Buzzfeed reports that in December 2011 Mail Online reached 45.3 million... | Editors Weblog – 2012-01-27
The Daily Mail, an omniverous middle-market British tabloid, has quietly unseated the New York Times to become the newspaper with the biggest online reach in the world, according to figures from the... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-25
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World Book Night is continuing its international spread, with Germany now set to join the UK... | The Bookseller – 2012-01-17
F+W Media, a Blue Ash, Ohio-based media company serving enthusiasts in about 20 verticals including antiques and collectibles, crafts, writing and horticulture, has acquired World Tea Media,... | Folio Magazine – 2012-01-10
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BBC Trust approves plan after government asked World Service to generate £3m from commercial activities by 2013/2014The BBC Trust has approved plans to run advertising on a number of BBC World... | Guardian – 2012-01-05
Colin Myler says he had been assured by his news editor the McCanns were aware of the impending publicationThe last editor of the News of the World has said he felt "very bad" for publishing Kate... | Guardian – 2011-12-15
World Book Night in the US has appointed Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist Anna Quindlen as its... | The Bookseller – 2011-12-15
Half of the one million books to be given away on the next World Book Night on April 23rd 2012... | The Bookseller – 2011-12-07
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, having learned that a popular iPad application based on a book could drive sales of both, will now see whether the reverse works: a book based on an iPad app. | The Wall Street Journal – 2011-11-25
Today is "the international day to end impunity". It is aimed at highlighting the failure by so many countries to investigate the murders of journalists. To mark the event, I am hosting this article,... | Guardian – 2011-11-23
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 15:27 World Book Day is set for a 2012 revamp, with new management, branding and digital promotional ideas hoping to achieve more than... | The Bookseller – 2011-11-04
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 09:15 World Book Day is set for a 2012 revamp, with new management, branding and digital promotional ideas hoping to achieve more than... | The Bookseller – 2011-11-04
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 25/10/2011 - 15:30 A new internet bookselling site has launched specialising in travel literature. The Culture Trip is selling four million books... | The Bookseller – 2011-10-25
Business-to-business media company WTWH Media, LLC isnt afraid of the uncertainty surrounding the magazine market placethe company is launching a new title this month called Solar Power World... | Folio Magazine – 2011-10-20
Does Amazon's recent introduction of its Kindle Fire tablet, and CEO Jeff Bezos's description of it as "an end-to-end service," suggest that publishers no longer will have a role in the time-honored... | Knowledge@Wharton – 2011-10-18
An estimated 50,000 Californians rely on the federal talking book program, which was established by the Library of Congress in 1931. A ceremony at the California State Library this weekend will... | SacBee – 2011-10-15
In his autobiography, readers learn about the life of the controversial civil rights activist.Every so often a book comes along that changes the world in some way. Maybe it heralds the start of a... | Chicago Tribune – 2011-10-15
In a continuum of an acquisition series that has become Bonniers growth strategy, the publisher acquires Hearsts Cycle World. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed. | Folio Magazine – 2011-09-30
A fascinating new book argues that the United States has already been eclipsed as the world's dominant economic power.[more ...] | Slate – 2011-09-20
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Thu, 15/09/2011 - 15:15 Virgin Books has acquired a title by craft journalist Perri Lewis, which will enlist the worlds top makers to explore different... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-15
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 19/08/2011 - 12:03 World Book Day has appointed Kirsten Grant as director, with Cathy Schofield stepping down from her position as co-ordinator... | The Bookseller – 2011-08-19
Patterson earned $84m in the year to April 2011, Danielle Steel $35m, Stephen King $28m and Janet Evanovich $22m The world's highest-paid author padded to the windows of his magnificent, yellow,... | Guardian – 2011-08-19
BlogHer co-founder and CEO Lisa Stone sounded triumphant today in San Diego, where her women-focused blog and advertising network was hosting its seventh annual BlogHer conference. More than 3,500... | AdWeek – 2011-08-06
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 28/07/2011 - 15:19 World Book Night will launch in the US in 2012, with the States confirmed as the event's first international partner.... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-28
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 27/07/2011 - 15:15 Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is the most popular title among the public to be given away as part of World Book Night... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-27
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 27/07/2011 - 15:15 Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted the most popular title to be given away as part of World Book Night 2012.... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-27
It might seem only reasonable for independents to gloat, at least a little, now that one of their biggest competitors, Borders Book Group, which had 1,249 stores in 2003, has begun closing its... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-07-22
Tabloid's closure meant there were 2.7 million extra buyers out there but some of the Sunday papers didn't seem to be tryingSo the News of the World is dead. Long live the Sunday, er, sorry Which... | Guardian – 2011-07-17
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 14:31 Vintage has made 12 titles by The Woman in Black author Susan Hill available to buy as e-books for the first time across the UK... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-15
Media buyers warn of damage to fragile marketRupert Murdoch's snap decision to close the News of The World has at a stroke removed more than a quarter of the total sales of Sunday newspapers, piling... | Guardian – 2011-07-11
The News of the World, the U.K. tabloid that has run stories about celebrities, sex scandals and murders since the Victorian era, published its final edition today after News Corp. folded it amid... | BusinessWeek – 2011-07-10
After the latest controversy broke in a string of revelations concerning phone hacking conducted by editorial staff, British newspaper News of the World is folding. News Internationals chairman... | Folio Magazine – 2011-07-07
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 15/06/2011 - 14:03 Random House author Katie Price is to attempt to break the Guinness World Records title for the largest book signing by a... | The Bookseller – 2011-06-15
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 31/05/2011 - 16:21 An Edinburgh independent has proposed an alternative to World Book Night next year, where readers buy tickets to attend book swap... | The Bookseller – 2011-05-31
Last week, Apple went to Washington, D.C., to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers about consumer privacy in the mobile marketplace. The visit was triggered by the discovery that Apples iPads and... | AdWeek – 2011-05-23
Conde Nast Publications Inc., publisher of magazines including the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, said it is near an agreement to move its headquarters to downtown Manhattans 1 World Trade Center. | BusinessWeek – 2011-05-18
A decade after New York City sustained one of the largest terrorist attacks in recent American history on September 11, 2001, Conde Nast has decided to move its head quarters, 18 magazine titles and... | Folio Magazine – 2011-05-18
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Tue, 17/05/2011 - 09:05 Jacqueline Wilson and Roald Dahl are among the high-profile authors selected for the 2012 £1 World Book Day books, which will... | The Bookseller – 2011-05-17
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 11/05/2011 - 15:41 America wants to hold its own World Book Night following in the footsteps of the UK. The American Booksellers Association said it... | The Bookseller – 2011-05-11
TOKYO (Reuters) - An avid Twitter user's desire to help Japan recover from the devastating March earthquake and tsunami has resulted in a charity e-book based on material gathered from around the... | Reuters – 2011-05-10
Although some integrated news rooms and sales forces are effective, progress is often quicker where digital is kept apart"Here's the problem," says Randall Rothenberg, head of the US Interactive... | Guardian – 2011-05-10
3 May is World Press Freedom Day, established as such by the UN General Assembly in 1993. The day is celebrated worldwide by different international organizations such the United Nations Educational,... | Editors Weblog – 2011-05-03
India-based company has just a few hundred machines left in stock. | Editor & Publisher – 2011-04-26
Associated Newspapers' online network passes Huffington Post with 39.6m unique visitors in MarchMail Online, Associated Newspapers' online network, has overtaken the Huffington Post to become the... | Guardian – 2011-04-19
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 18/04/2011 - 09:19 Authors including Iain M Banks and Michael Moorcock have written to the BBC's director general Mark Thompson, attacking the... | The Bookseller – 2011-04-18
It took some hard pounding and tough talking, but we got there in the end. The six novels featured on this page make up the shortlist for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. They will compete... | The Independent – 2011-04-15
Irvington, N.Y. - Flat World Knowledge, a publisher of free and open online college textbooks, has raised an additional sum of funding from publisher Random House to close its second round of... | Digital Media Wire – 2011-04-08
Last summer, in a much-read cover story, Wired proclaimed that the Web is dead. Chris Anderson, the magazine's editor, argued that loading pages in a browser is passé. The future, Anderson wrote, is... | Slate – 2011-03-25
In four short years the Man Asian Literary Prize has established itself as the most important award handed out annually to writers in the region - and the region's equivalent of the Man Booker Prize... | The Independent – 2011-03-16
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 15/03/2011 - 15:56 Sales of the six £1 World Book Day books fell 36% week-on-week, to 159,000 copies solda figure down 9% on the comparative week... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-15
Written By: Lisa Campbell and Philip Stone Publication Date: Fri, 11/03/2011 - 16:27 Sales of the selected 25 World Book Night titles soared by over 100% at W H Smith, amid a wider trade sales... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-11
Monthly title and its website to be closed from this week as part of cost-cutting at BBC World ServiceThe BBC World Service is closing its current affairs magazine World Agenda as part of cuts to its... | Guardian – 2011-03-08
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 08/03/2011 - 16:01 The latest crop of £1 World Book Day books, led by Cope & Davies' Spy Dog/The Great Pet Shop Panic (Puffin/S&S) take positions... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-08
Corporation seeks commercial funding as veteran journalist Sir Mark Tully leads campaign to keep broadcasts on short waveThe BBC World Service could reverse its decision to axe short-wave broadcasts... | Guardian – 2011-03-07
Written By: Philip Stone and Felicity Wood Publication Date: Fri, 04/03/2011 - 09:43 The majority of the books to be handed out tomorrow (5th March) as part of World Book Night have already... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-04
" Mr. Chartwell " arrives with the mark of the beast. Yes, it's another animal novel. Worse, another talking-animal novel. Worse still, another novel with animals talking about depression. But wait -... | The Washington Post – 2011-03-02
NEW DELHI, Mar 2 (Reuters Life!) - Characters from centuries-old myths and folktales have adorned the covers of children's comic books in India for decades, but a new wave of graphic novelists has... | Reuters – 2011-03-02
As the bookstore chains grew in the 1980s and 90s, the number of independent booksellers fell dramatically, but those that survived expect little pop from the impending closing of 200 Borders... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-02-28
Recent events in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt have been called 'Twitter revolutions' but can social networking overthrow a government? Our correspondent reports from the Middle East on how activists... | Guardian – 2011-02-25
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 24/02/2011 - 09:42 Final preparations are underway for a medley of events planned to celebrate World Book Night, with independent and national... | The Bookseller – 2011-02-24
Gardeners' World magazine is commemorating its 20th anniversary with a redesign for its March issue, which includes a 26-page special supplement sponsored by Nissan. | Media Week – 2011-02-22
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Billionaire Indu Jains Bennett, Coleman & Co. plans to give stock options to employees in preparation for a potential initial public offering in India in the next two years, said three people with... | Business Week – 2011-02-16
As the Paris Cookbook Fair gets underway next month, cookbook publishers are getting ready to do some shopping--and not just the sort that involves stocking up on Dijon mustard and bonbons from... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-02-14
There is a single message from publishers in the beleaguered local and regional newspaper industry. Take off the competition shackles and let us consolidate. The latest to advance the cause is Peter... | Guardian – 2011-02-10
Many believe that apps are the future for news distribution and that the iPhone (and smartphones in general) and the iPad (as well as other tablets) have started a revolution. The launch of the... | Editors Weblog – 2011-02-04
Statistics from US campaigners Vida confirm dramatic gender imbalance in literary critics and the authors reviewedThe gender imbalance at the heart of the British and American literary establishment... | Guardian – 2011-02-04
Supplement targeting upmarket readers to be published monthly from March, following success of women's mag FabulousThe News of the World is to launch a men's magazine in March to join successful... | Guardian – 2011-02-03
There was no shortage of debates and discussions at last week's second annual Digital Book World, where about 1,300 members of the trade publishing industry turned out in New York to explore ways to... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-01-31
Just a few months after the launch of Lettera43, the Italian online-only news panorama welcomes a new arrival. Linkiesta.it, the new Italian digital newspaper, went online today in beta. In spring... | Editors Weblog – 2011-01-31
End of five foreign language services and shortwave will cut off more than 30 million listeners, a sixth of its global audienceWhile the BBC and the government traded blows over who was to blame for... | Guardian – 2011-01-28
News International has launched an iPad app, which allows users to download The News of the World, and content from its glossy magazine Fabulous and sports pull-out Score. | Media Week – 2010-12-20
Digital Book World has announced a new awards program focused on e-books and book apps. The Publishing Innovation Awards will recognize the best e-books and book apps for their origination,... | Publishers Weekly – 2010-12-14
The world's most expensive book, a copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, has sold at auction for just over £7.3m. | BBC World – 2010-12-07
Cygnus Business Media is moving in a direction it says no other media company is: It is rolling the majority of its brands into four affinity groups that will be headed by four executive vice... | Folio Mag – 2010-07-15
Flat World Knowledge, an open source textbook publisher offering free online texts and for-pay... | Publishers Wekly – 2010-04-01
Sussex, Wisconsin-based Quad/Graphics has cleared another hurdle in its quest to acquire fellow magazine printer World Color. The companies have cleared antitrust regulatory requirements in both the... | Folio Mag – 2010-03-30
# ipad You'll notice a major book publisher is missing from this slide : Random House , the biggest one in the world, actually. More » | Gizmodo – 2010-03-24
World Book Day has "given a great boost to... | The Book Seller – 2010-03-10
Toya Stone has always dreamed of publishing a book. Thanks to modern technology, her dream has come true. | The Victoria Advocate – 2010-02-18
The historian Tony Judt, who has written nine books and scores of essays, has lost the ability to move nearly every muscle in his body. | New York Times – 2010-02-10
The magazine production department used to be about tracking insertion orders and hard-copy ad materials and shipping by hand all of the magazine pages to the printer. These days, with so many... | Folio Mag – 2010-02-01
Baker & Taylor senior v-p Linda Gagnon showed off Blio, e-reading software developed by visionary technologist Ray Kurzweils KNFB Reading Technology, at a session during the final day of Digital... | Publishers Wekly – 2010-01-28
There was little consensus at two Digital Book World panels yesterday discussing e-book pricing and when e-books should be released. Kobo's Michael Tamblyn showed a chart that indicated $8.76 was... | Publishers Wekly – 2010-01-28
In a dynamic panel at Digital Book World about rights in the electronic age, a number of hot-button, complex issues were broached on Tuesday afternoon. | Publishers Wekly – 2010-01-27
Macmillan president Brian Napacks call for publishers to fight digital book piracy with a coordinated program of lawsuits, takedown pressure and anti-piracy legislation seemed to energize the... | Publishers Wekly – 2010-01-27
Quad/Graphics, a privately-held printer headquartered in Wisconsin, has agreed to acquired World Color Press in a deal that will result in a printer with annual revenue of over $5 billion. | Publishers Wekly – 2010-01-26
The founders of GlobalPost.com have created a hybrid business model of free content and paid subscriptions, combined with ads, to try to cover the globe. | International Herald Tribune – 2009-03-26
The government hits back at claims it is wasting taxpayers money on virtual reality website Second Life. | BBC – 2009-03-19
LONDON - Haymarket Business Media is to close its monthly magazine Printing World, blaming "tough economic conditions". | Media Week – 2009-03-18
Foreign correspondents no longer cover one place for the exclusive benefit of readers in another place. | International Herald Tribune – 2009-03-13
LONDON - The News of the World has signed a high five-figure sponsorship deal with IDS, the sales house for Virgin Media TV, to promote its Fabulous magazine on Living. | Media Week – 2009-03-13
CAMBRIDGE, England, BOSTON and STOCKHOLM, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - Cambridge University Press Founded by Henry VIII in High-Tech Internet Publishing Deal With Boston University and Swedish... | ITNews – 2009-03-11
World Book Day helped the market rebound... | The Book Seller – 2009-03-10
The Omaha World-Herald has laid off 38 employees, about 5 percent of its work force. | Editor And Publisher – 2009-03-03
With over 50 American magazines having already folded this year, and organizations like the Magazine Publishers of America and American Business Media canceling conferences and events, its worth... | Folio Mag – 2009-02-26
Childrens booksellers are confident that... | The Book Seller – 2009-02-26
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