View Post Book Biz Jamie Oliver Changes Publishers By Jason Boog on May. 23, 2013 - 5:42 AM Celebrity chef, author and Food Revolution host Jamie Oliver has jumped to HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint after working with Hyperion on earlier books. Ecco will publish the first book in fall 2014 with another book coming ...
View Post Social Media How To Turn Your Twitter Page into a Book By Jason Boog on May. 23, 2013 - 4:42 AM Do you want to share your tweets with your grandchildren someday? Maybe you should make a book. AppNewser has collected five different services that will turn your Twitter feed into a book. Check it out: Twournal: “Twournal a ...
View Post Digital Most Searched Authors & Books on Google By Jason Boog on May. 23, 2013 - 2:42 AM This month, William Shakespeare is the most searched for author on Google and The Bible is the most searched for book. Below, we’ve posted the top ten most searched for authors on Google. Google has started automatically upd ...
View Post Adaptation | Publishing CoverGirl to Release Hunger Games-Inspired Make-Up Line By Maryann Yin on May. 23, 2013 - 1:23 AM CoverGirl has created a Hunger Games-inspired makeup line called the “Capitol Collection.” Lionsgate struck a sponsorship deal for the Catching Fire adaptation with the cosmetics company. Paula Kupfer, the vice ...
View Post Awards Katherine Boo Wins the 2013 Helen Bernstein Book Award By Jason Boog on May. 23, 2013 - 12:23 AM Journalist and author Katherine Boo has won the New York Public Library’s 2013 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Behind The Beautiful Forevers. The $15,000 award goes to “journalists whose books have brought clarity and pub ...
View Post Authors | Bookselling | Publishing | Videos Score That Job: Hachette Book Group By Kevin Eck on May. 22, 2013 - 6:07 PM Do you have the New York Times Best Seller list memorized? Do you have a passion for books and want to get into the publishing business? In this episode of “Score That Job,” career expert, author and mediabistro editor ...
View Post Book Biz Newly Discovered Pearl S. Buck Novel Coming By Jason Boog on May. 22, 2013 - 4:47 PM A 40-year-old unpublished Pearl S. Buck manuscript was recently discovered in storage, and Open Road Integrated Media and InkWell Management will team up to publish the book. The Eternal Wonder will be published on October 22, ...
View Post Digital | Publishing Penguin Settles for $75 Million in eBook Pricing Suit By Jason Boog on May. 22, 2013 - 4:10 PM Penguin will pay $75 million in damages and “costs and fees to resolve all antitrust claims relating to eBook pricing”–settling with 33 state attorneys general and consumers in a suit led by Hagens Berman Sobol S ...
View Post Resources Shaun Robinson: ‘Every No Puts You Closer To a Yes’ By Jason Boog on May. 22, 2013 - 12:42 PM The Gracie Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, celebrating “outstanding programming for, by and about women.” I battled my way through the crowded red carpet, getting some writing advice from two authors at th ...
View Post Authors | Publishing Pretty Little Liars Author Sara Shepard on How to Write More By Mona Zhang on May. 22, 2013 - 12:28 PM In the latest installment of So What Do You Do?, Mediabistro talked to Sara Shepard, author of the bestselling YA series Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game. The prolific writer, who has published 20 books in eight years, talks ...