05/22/2012 @ 12:00AM
To promote five of its summer releases, Simon & Schuster's Free Press imprint is publishing a e-book, as well as an app, with excerpts from the books.
04/19/2012 @ 03:00PM
On April 23, a trio of authors who were recognized with 2012 Michael L. Printz Awards embarks on a group tour to California and Virginia. Joining forces are Printz winner John Corey Whaley and Printz Honor winners Daniel Handler and Maggie Stiefvater. The tour is unusual for two reasons: it involves honorees of a single award and it was coordinated by publicists at three different houses.
04/02/2012 @ 12:00AM
On Friday, Consortium launched an app, Bookslinger, which provides short stories taken from its publishers books to promote discovery.
03/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
Christian publisher Sheaf House and author Joe Bonsall of the Oak Ridge Boys country and gospel quartet, will donate profits from sales of his latest book to benefit a Branson, Mo. library damaged by last week's tornado.
03/01/2012 @ 12:00AM
Beyond Her Book, the popular blog penned by Milwaukee writer Barbara Vey, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a weeklong virtual party. Seeking to top last year’s festivities—when the blog received 22,600 comments over the course of the week—Vey has once again structured this year’s party day by day, each day devoted to different literary genres, and plans about 50 giveaways per day. The party begins on Monday, March 5, 2012, at midnight, and runs through Saturday, March 10, 2012.
02/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
The non-profit dedicated to the art of storytelling, The Moth, has received a $750,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
01/24/2012 @ 12:00AM
DC Comics parent DC Entertainment has announced the launch of We Can Be Heroes, a humanitarian effort to address the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa, with plans to raise $2 million for three aid organizations working in the region.
01/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Fans tuning in to the season three premiere of Justified last night, may have gotten wind of a kind of tie-in (but not quite), that HarperCollins is pushing...hard.
09/23/2011 @ 12:00AM
Reed Exhibitions, one of the world’s largest event organizers and organizer of BookExpo America and The London Book Fair, has signed on as an affiliate partner to PubMatch, the book-publishing and rights database founded earlier in 2011 by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit. The addition of Reed Exhibitions, a division of London-based Reed Elsevier PLC, adds capability for conference attendees and exhibitors to obtain real-time rights information in several different languages.
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