U.S. Publishers Earned $357.4M From Export Sales In 2011
U.S. trade publishers earned a net sales revenue of $357.4 million from export sales in 2011, according to a new report from the Association of American Publishers (AAP). This was a 7.2 percent increase from $333.3 million the net sales revenue earned ...
How To Record Sound & Images With One App
As if readings weren’t stressful enough, these days authors have to remember to take photos and videos and post them on their social networking pages afterwards.
A new app called StoryMark aims to make it a little easier. The new iPhone app lets ...
Hailey Leithauser Wins Emily Dickinson First Book Award
Hailey Leithauser has won the Poetry Foundation’s 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. The 57-year-old poet has been writing off and on since the late 1970s. Since 2000, her work has been published in The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Pl...
Barack Obama Fails ’50 Shades Of Grey’ Pop Culture Test
As part of his campaign efforts, president Barack Obama was on The View, where he took a pop culture quiz. It turns out that the president has never heard of the top selling erotica book, 50 Shades of Grey.
When asked the question, “what is the...
More UK Children Under 10 Read eBooks On Laptops & PCs
More children under the age of ten in the UK are reading eBooks on laptops, according to a new report from Bowker Market Research. However, more kids aged eleven to fifteen are reading eBooks on Kindles.
We’ve embedded a Bowker chart above–...
How A Book Is Born
Publishing house Weldon Owen created an infographic called “How a Book is Born,” tracing the path of a book from idea to final product.
We’ve embedded the whole infographic below–all book professionals can learn from this image which shows how ...
Kirk Douglas Talks Hollywood Blacklist In Upcoming eBook
95-year-old Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas has a new eBook coming out on June 12th about making the film, Spartacus.
Published by Open Road, the digital book includes a foreword by actor George Clooney.
AppNewser has more: “In I Am Spartacus! Ma...
Facebook To Sell Apps
Facebook is getting into the app business by opening up its own app store called the App Center, which will include apps for free as well as for sale.
AppNewser has more: “The App Center will feature all kinds of apps, including iOS, Android, we...
’50 Shades Of Grey’ Pulled in Florida Libraries
E. L. James‘ bestselling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey has been pulled from some library shelves in Florida. The book is being removed from Brevard County Public Libraries for its graphic depiction of S&M and bondage.
Library services di...
How To Breathe New Life Into An Old Book
Just because your book is a few years old does not mean that it is bound to live in the dark corners of The Strand.
To help you figure out how to polish off an oldie but goody, Mediabistro put together a list of marketing tips. With some savvy position...
