Specialist children's booksellers Letterbox Library and the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) are launching a new fiction award, The Little Rebels Children's Book Award, The Bookseller reports.
Nominations are now open to children's fiction for readers aged 12 and under which promotes social justice and was first published in 2012. The closing date for nomiations is 11th January 2013, with the winner to be announced on 11th May 2013.
Read more about the new award here.
събота, 17 ноември 2012 г.
петък, 16 ноември 2012 г.
New 'On the Road' Movie Trailer Released
А new trailer for 'On the Road' (IFC Films) just got released, Shelf Awareness reported. The movie is directed by Walter Salles, and starring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen.
'On the Road', based on the 1957 book by Jack Kerouac, hits the screens December 21.
'On the Road', based on the 1957 book by Jack Kerouac, hits the screens December 21.
сряда, 14 ноември 2012 г.
Bookstore Sales Fell To $1.39 bln. in September
Bookstore sales took a tumble in September, falling 8.2%, to $1.39 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Census Bureau, Publishers Weekly reported. For the first nine months of 2012, bookstore sales were down 1.6%, to $11.64 billion.
For the entire retail segment, September sales rose 3% and sales in the nine month period were 5.5% ahead of the same span in 2011.
For the entire retail segment, September sales rose 3% and sales in the nine month period were 5.5% ahead of the same span in 2011.
вторник, 13 ноември 2012 г.
Hachette net sales up 4.2% in 2012 Q3
Hachette Livre (Lagardère Publishing) delivered net sales of €626M, up 4.2% in reported terms and up 0.1% like-for-like, says official statement by the company on Tuesday.
Of note during the third quarter had been the stellar performance by General Literature, which rose sharply in France (+12.4%), the UK (+17%), and the US (+7.3%), thanks to the release of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy
on September 27. This solid performance by General Literature helped offset the slowdown in the company’s education business in France, Spain, and the UK. Digital continues to grow within the publishing division, accounting for 20% of total third-quarter Adult trade book sales in both the US and the UK, representing 6.4% of total net sales for Hachette Livre.
While net revenues were up 6% in the third quarter, on a year to date basis HBG’s sales are still below the prior year. Digital sales at HBG increased 3% compared with the third quarter of 2011. Digital represents 20% of HBG's net sales, consistent with last year.
HBG had 184 titles – including 27 #1s – on the New York Times bestseller list thus far in 2012. We have surpassed our year-end total of 182 bestselling titles in 2011. In addition, 59 titles hit the New York Times ebook bestseller list. The key titles driving HBG sales for the third quarter include LOW PRESSURE by Sandra Brown, Change Your Words
by Joyce Meyer, I Declare
by Joel Osteen, I, Michael Bennett
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, Nevermore
by James Patterson, The Casual Vacancy
by JK Rowling, and The Best of Me
by Nicholas Sparks.
Of note during the third quarter had been the stellar performance by General Literature, which rose sharply in France (+12.4%), the UK (+17%), and the US (+7.3%), thanks to the release of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy
on September 27. This solid performance by General Literature helped offset the slowdown in the company’s education business in France, Spain, and the UK. Digital continues to grow within the publishing division, accounting for 20% of total third-quarter Adult trade book sales in both the US and the UK, representing 6.4% of total net sales for Hachette Livre.While net revenues were up 6% in the third quarter, on a year to date basis HBG’s sales are still below the prior year. Digital sales at HBG increased 3% compared with the third quarter of 2011. Digital represents 20% of HBG's net sales, consistent with last year.
HBG had 184 titles – including 27 #1s – on the New York Times bestseller list thus far in 2012. We have surpassed our year-end total of 182 bestselling titles in 2011. In addition, 59 titles hit the New York Times ebook bestseller list. The key titles driving HBG sales for the third quarter include LOW PRESSURE by Sandra Brown, Change Your Words
by Joyce Meyer, I Declare
by Joel Osteen, I, Michael Bennett
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, Nevermore
by James Patterson, The Casual Vacancy
by JK Rowling, and The Best of Me
by Nicholas Sparks.
Prepare for the New Delhi World Book Fair 2013
The Fair is co-organised with the India Trade Promotion Organisation to promote the country’s external trade. The 2012 NDWBF had over 2600 stalls of over 1300 exhibitors from 30 countries.
Read more about the New Delhi World Book Fair 2013 here.
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