Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Files for Bankruptcy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has officially filed a major restructuring plan to redistribute the company’s $3.1 billion in debt, entering what they called “a prompt, court-supervised, chapter 11 process.”
The company predicts they will emerge from...
Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already it's the end of the world. Instead of teaming up with Barnes and Noble to cast out the ...
Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already it's the end of the world. Instead of teaming up with Barnes and Noble to cast out the ...
Jane Lovering wins romantic novel of the year with first book
Please Don't Stop The Music, offering an 'unexpected hero from a fresh new voice', pips The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie ThomasAn indie rock star and a woman with a dark past form the unlikely couple at the heart of Jane Lovering's Please Don't Stop the Musi...
Apple and publishers fail to halt ebook lawsuit
Lawsuit accuses Apple and publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominanceApple and five major book publishers have failed to persuade a US judge to throw out a lawsuit by consumers accusing them of conspiring to raise electronic boo...
Nick Harkaway: ‘The book industry has got to get online publishing right’
The sci-fi novelist turns non-fiction author to investigate technology and the future of readingThe author of two well-received science fiction novels, The Gone-Away World (2008) and Angelmaker (2012), Nick Harkaway (born 1972) is also an experienced t...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Restructure $3.1 Billion in Debt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hopes to mount “comprehensive financial restructuring plan” to redistribute the company’s $3.1 billion in debt. The plan includes “a prompt, court-supervised, chapter 11 process.”
Here’s m...
Who’s helping who in the cover blurb game?
Few books now appear without enthusiastic recommendations from other authors, but does anyone really believe them?How many books can one man recommend? I sometimes feel that my name is on the cover of more books than I've actually written myself, which...
The Rev Robin Denniston obituary
Publisher behind some of the most popular novels of the 20th centuryRobin Denniston, who has died aged 85, commissioned some of the most popular novels of the 20th century during a distinguished career with six major publishing houses. He demonstrated ...
Chip Kidd Offers Book Designing Tips
Random House book designer Chip Kidd gave a TED talk called “Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.” The video embedded above features his entire talk.
Many publishing executives feel that the cover design is the number one mark...
Pocket Star Returns As eBook Imprint
Simon & Schuster’s paperback imprint Pocket Books has returned to the publishing world as an eBook imprint. The new digital publisher will release titles in various genres including: romance, thriller and mystery. This includes works by autho...
Prof Alice Roberts: ‘Public engagement should be part of academic life’ – video