Reuters
LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - Erotic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" helped drive print and e-book sales in Britain to record levels in 2012 with publishers hailing figures on Wednesday as proof that digitalbooks are not killing the traditional market ...
Physical Books Are Dead — Long Live Physical Books
TIME
We can thank digital for much of the gain, of course, with overall digital sales up a whopping 66%, split between e-book sales (up 134%) and digital fiction sales (up 149%). And yes, physical booksales were down, though with a mere 1% dip, only slightly.
Book Buzz: John Grisham to write sequel to 'A Time To Kill' - USA Today
USA TODAY
In the book, Jake Brigance returns to the courtroom in a "dramatic showdown as Ford County again confronts its tortured history." A Time To Kill was on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list for 83 weeks and reached No. 2 in 1993. Tsarnaev brothers book: ...
Author Blume and director-son turn her 'Tiger Eyes' into feature film
MiamiHerald.com
It took a stroke of luck in the form of unexpected financing from a British supermarket giant, butauthor Judy Blume and her film director son, Larry Blume, have finally made a big-screen movie together. This weekend, Tiger Eyes, based on her 1981 book ...
'Martha Speaks' author sues WGBH for cut of donations
Boston Globe
Mark Wilson/Globe Staff/File 2008. “Martha Speaks” author Susan Meddaugh (left) with WGBH staff in 2008. Meddaugh wrote the first book, which follows the adventures of a lovable dog, in 1991. ...Author and illustrator Susan Meddaugh, whose books ...
Book Buzz: 'Little Prince' gets the star treatment
USA TODAY
A.M. Homes has won the prestigious Women's Prize, Jen Lancaster channels Martha Stewart and more of today's book news. jlaw. Jennifer Lawrence attends 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Party during the ... Rabid zombies: As Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ...
Book review: ' Transatlantic' by Colum McCann holds elation, sorrow
San Jose Mercury News
Colum McCann should need no introduction to readers of contemporary fiction; his 2009 novel "Let The Great World Spin" is one of the 21st century's most celebrated novels thus far — with a NationalBook Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among ...
Publishers gave Amazon "ultimatum" over e-book pricing: executive
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publishers gave Amazon.com an "ultimatum" to let them set prices of e-books sold on its website after they reached deals in 2010 to sell through Apple Inc as well, a top executive at the retailer testified on Wednesday. Amazon ...
Book Talk: The tale of a time-travelling serial killer
Reuters
A: I was messing around on Twitter, and I said I should probably write a book about a time-traveling serial killer. One of the few times on Twitter that's paid off for me. As soon as I had the idea I knew I could do something really interesting with it ...
Amazon's E-Book Deals Were Just as Tough as Apple's - John ...
By John Paczkowski
When Apple negotiated its e-book contracts with the five publishers with which it would ultimately launch iBooks, the company demanded a “most favored nation provision” that prohibited e-booksfrom being sold at any other retailer for a lower ...
AllThingsD
Dark Souls art book reaches western shores in November • News ...
Design Works is being published by Udon Entertainment, who previously worked on art books for such games as Resident Evil 5 and Phoenix Wright. "Featuring key visuals, concept art, character, weapon, and monster designs, and rough ...
Eurogamer.net
Flash book giveaway | Abnormal Returns
By abnormalreturns
We are big book fans here at Abnormal Returns. For instance here our latest post on the booksmost purchased by Abnormal Returns readers in May 2013. Recently we just tweeted the following. Hey tweeps, Daniel Kahneman's big book ...
Abnormal Returns
New York Times
Negotiations between the nation's libraries and the Big Six publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon & Schuster, which publish roughly two-thirds of the books in America — have gone in fits and starts ...
Gabe Durham is raising funds for Boss Fight Books on Kickstarter! ... We will send you each ...
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