London Book Fair 2013

Special link: London Book Fair 2013

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Association of Canadian Publishers select Ingram's CoreSource® for members e-content management needs

Ingram Content Group Inc. has announced an agreement with the Association of Canadian Publishers, an industry organization representing a substantial and diverse group of Canadian-owned and controlled book publishers from across the country. ACP has selected Ingram's digital asset management platform CoreSource® to distribute and archive content for their members globally

Fifth Annual Asian Publishing Awards winners

Ten winners and 16 excellence awardees from eleven categories were awarded during the fifth Asian Publishing Awards on July 8, 2011. The event was held as part of the culmination of the Asian Publishing Convention held at The Landmark Bangkok July 7 & 8, 2011 attended by 248 delegates from 17 countries

Book video: Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee: Forbidden

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker teams with Tosca Lee to create this gripping thriller set in a desolate future

Book video: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources-and needs the help of his longtime friend, General Boris Karpov. Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency, FSB-2, is one of the most determined, honorable, and justice-hungry men that Bourne knows. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of FSB-2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne

Book video: Daniel Clowes: Twentieth Century Eightball

Twentieth Century Eightball collects the very best humor strips from Eightball, written and drawn between 1988 and 1996. Included within are such seminal strips/rants as "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," and over three dozen more

Book video: Dave Rimmer on Like Punk Never Happened

Like Punk Never Happened is the definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club is also the story of British pop music in the 1980s. Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop was originally published in 1986, and brought back into print by Faber Finds in July 2011

Interview with Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine - the new owners of Politics & Prose

In this exclusive interview, Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, the new owners of Politics & Prose in Washington, DC, discuss their decision to purchase the renown bookstore and the future of independent bookselling

Alastair Reynolds to write new Doctor Who novel

British Science Fiction award-winner Alastair Reynolds is the latest author to try his hand writing a Doctor Who novel, after signing a deal with BBC Books. Editorial director Albert DePetrillo bought world rights from Robert Kirby at United Agents for an undisclosed sum. Harvest of Time will be published as a £16.99 hardback in 2013. It features the third Doctor, who was played by Jon Pertwee in the BBC series. The book is about the Doctor battling his arch-nemesis The Master on 20th-century earth and far into the future - The Bookseller

Angry Robot signs near-future novel

Angry Robot is to publish a debut novel by Canadian writer Madeline Ashby. vN is set in a near-future where robots and humans live side by side, and follows Amy, who has grown up with a cybernetic mother and human father. Alone of her kind, her "human-protecting failsafe" has stopped working and she's soon on the run from the law. Her only friend is a robot boy programmed to only like humans - The Bookseller

Google Books to distribute Harry Potter e-books

Google will handle distribution and purchases of the e-book versions of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, which is due out this fall. #jkrowling