Search Results by tag: James Patterson

Book links roundup: Amazon’s advertising in ebooks, Pearson to acquire GlobalEnglish corporation, and more

Amazon's advertising in ebooks Archivists protest cuts to National Archival Development Program Pearson to acquire GlobalEnglish corporation for $90-million Michael Joseph acquires hit self-published novel Publishing Technology announces agreements with 10 new scholarly publishers RSL ... Read More »

May 29, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

BookNet bestsellers: fiction

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

U.S. author Nicholas Sparks is the lucky one, as his latest novel hits the top spot on this week's bestsellers' list, thanks to its upcoming film adaptation starring Zac Efron. For the two weeks ending ... Read More »

March 19, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

Daily book biz round-up: world’s biggest book; Thompson at the Vancouver Sun; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Today's book news: Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off with unveiling of world's biggest book (which doesn't look all that big to us) FBF to stay in Frankfurt at least until 2022 New Ken Follett and ... Read More »

October 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Serialized novel 2.0?

By Eric Emin Wood

The return of the serialized novel has been trumpeted before (notably by this very blog), and James Patterson made headlines recently with his chain thriller, Airborne. But The Los Angeles Times has combined the two. Yesterday, the ... Read More »

April 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Depressed economy not all bad news for publishers

By Steven W. Beattie

The economic turmoil in global financial markets is making a lot of folks depressed (ha!), but it apparently hasn't stopped one mega-publisher from handing out generous bonuses to staff. The same week that Houghton Mifflin ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

James Patterson to close Toronto readers' festival

By Nathan Whitlock

BOOKED!, the readers' festival created to accompany BookExpo Canada, has confirmed (as previously reported by Q&Q Omni) that bestselling thriller author James Patterson will be the star of a finale event to close the festival ... Read More »

May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Events

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