Highlights of 2011: The Year In Publishing, By The Numbers MocoNews 20: The percentage of book sales that are digital at big-six publishers Random House and Hachette, with other publishers well on their way to reaching that point. It's estimated that e-books made up 6.4 percent of the trade book market in 2010, ... |
5 great gift books for performing-arts fans The Seattle Times Diane Keaton's "Then Again" (Random House, $26) is, as you might expect from this cherished Hollywood misfit, an unconventional self-portrait. Actually, it is a dual portrait: of Keaton the Oscar-winning actress (for "Annie Hall"), whose intelligence, ... |
Making Dragons: Christopher Paolini has more stories to tell The Bozeman Daily Chronicle That book, "Eragon," about a young man in the fictional land of Alagaesia who finds a dragon egg, was self-published and promoted, often involving Paolini in Renaissance garb, before it was picked up by Random House in 2003. "Eragon" made the New York ... |
 The Bookseller | RH expands digital team The Bookseller Random House is extending its digital team, and has promoted Dan Franklin, current digital editor, (pictured) to the role of digital publisher, while multi-media editor Jon Salt steps into the role of head of digital product development. ... |
 Times LIVE | BEST OF 2011: For your beach bag Times LIVE DarkMarket (Random House Struik), the follow-on of McMafia, Glenny's brilliant analysis of post Cold War organised crime in which South Africa has its very own chapter, is an exploration of the murkier realms of the internet and the mindboggling amount ... |
Penguin joins push for short ebooks The Guardian Random House debuted Storycuts, a collection of 200-odd digital short stories by authors including Barnes, Irvine Welsh and Ruth Rendell, last month, calling it a "new era" for the short story form. The pieces are largely pulled out of collections and ... |
Ask Amy: Look for conversations when kids clam up Washington Post A book you'll find helpful is, “Helping Your Kids Cope With Divorce the Sandcastles Way” by M. Gary Neuman and Patricia Romanowski (Random House). Books for the boy would be any in the Harry Potter or Percy Jackson series. He needs to know that every ... |
32 of the year's best books The Seattle Times Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett "Open City" by Teju Cole (Random House). This debut novel by the Nigerian-born Cole is, on the surface, the story of a young, foreign psychiatry resident in post-9/11 New York City who searches for the soul of the city by ... |
Grilled pork chops a welcome variation Calgary Herald Variations on the familiar pork chop are always welcome as is this simple recipe from an appropriately named new collection called The Whole Hog Cookbook (Rizzoli/Random House, $30). ... |
Best sellers Kansas City Star "Then Again," by Diane Keaton (Random House: $26) Musings on motherhood, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino and more. "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," by Chris Matthews (S&S: $27.50) The newest bio of JFK reveals another side by those closest to him ... |
 89.3 KPCC | Jim Lehrer and his new book about presidential debates, “Tension City” 89.3 KPCC Award-winning journalist Jim Lehrer's newly published book “Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain” (Random House) takes a witty, behind-the-scenes look at more than 40 years of televised presidential debates. ... |
 Pittsburgh Post Gazette | Annie Leibovitz: A pilgrim's progress Pittsburgh Post Gazette (From Annie Leibovitz's "Pilgrimage," Random House, 2011.) Beginning a book of photography with images made from a point and shoot camera is something one would expect of a tourist, not an acclaimed photographer, and especially not from Annie Leibovitz ... |
Grilled pork chops a welcome variation Calgary Herald (HANDOUT PHOTO: Rizzoli/Random House) FOR POSTMEDIA NEWS FOOD PACKAGE, NOV. 24, 2011 Variations on the familiar pork chop are always welcome as is this simple recipe from an appropriately named new collection called The Whole Hog Cookbook ... |
 Brooklyn Rail | THE NEW ERA OF PUBLISHING? Williams Cole Checks in Again with John B. Thompson Brooklyn Rail ... have interacted amicably for years suddenly find themselves locking horns in new conflicts where the rules are no longer clear (as happened, for example, when Random House and Andrew Wylie clashed over Wylie's decision to launch Odyssey Editions). ... |
 National Post | A kid in Annie hall National Post 10, 2011 5:13 AM ET By Diane Keaton Random House 304 pp; $30 A humble suggestion: skip ahead to Part Two in Diane Keaton's beautiful ramble of a memoir, Then Again. That is to say, buy it for the cover (yes, you can judge this one by the fun black and ... Books: Keaton's quirky memoir also tells the story of her mom |
 Bleeding Cool News | Gendercrunching by Tim Hanley – DC and Marvel, October 2011 Bleeding Cool News First up was Random House, who boast an impressive SF/fantasy line-up. For example, they put out George RR Martin's A Dance with Dragons, along with Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books, and Terry Brooks' Shannara epic. ... |
 Publishers Weekly | Licensing Hotline: December 8 Publishers Weekly Random House is adding three new properties to its Nickelodeon publishing program, with books for each debuting in January 2012. They include the preschool shows Team Umizoomi and Bubble Guppies, as well as the tween mystery series ... |
Win Xanthe White Organic Vegetable Gardening Marlborough Express Random House has two copies of gardening guru Xanthe White's new book to give away this week. Organic Vegetable Gardening ($49.99) takes readers by the hand and shows them how to transform their backyard bombsites into organic Gardens of Eden in just ... |
When it comes to e-readers, do customers still judge books by their covers? Winnipeg Free Press See, in addition to being a published author, Richardson is also the vice-president and creative director of Canadian publishing for Random House Canada. He has designed more than 1500 books over the course of his career, including works by Ann-Marie ... |
 PopMatters | Best Books: Writers in Diverse Genres Produced Many Worthy Titles, If Few ... PopMatters Two children who were struck mute by the vicious murder of their mother are pursued by the killer — their stepfather — in Charles Frazier's gripping “Nightwoods” (Random House). Frazier masterfully evokes the interaction between man and nature as the ... |
Do readers judge ebooks by their covers? MetroNews Canada See, in addition to being a published author, Richardson is also the vice-president and creative director of Canadian publishing for Random House Canada. He has designed more than 1500 books over the course of his career, including works by Ann-Marie ... |
 Los Angeles Times | Book review: 'Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet' in paperback Los Angeles Times Published in November 2010 -– and just out in paperback –- the 550-page authoritative history of ballet is a bestseller, according to publisher Random House. Homans, a former professional dancer and professor with a PhD in modern European history, ... |
Diana Colbert, wife of author Charles Bock, dies. Sacramento Bee According to an email from Bock that his publisher, Random House, shared with The Associated Press, Colbert died in her sleep early Thursday. She was born in 1970. Colbert was first diagnosed two years ago. A fundraising auction was held in February to ... |
Pasco D-line finds order among random parts Tampabay.com (blog) “You build the house with what you have to build the house with,” said coach Tom McHugh. “If you live in an area where you have rocks, you build rock houses. If you have wood, you build wood houses. If you live in an area with mud, you build mud houses ... |
Police: Flare Gun Shot At House WMUR Manchester NEW DURHAM, NH -- Police believe someone armed with an emergency flare gun targeted a random house in New Durham last week and fired, burning a hole through the home's siding. A 90-year-old woman was home at the time but was not hurt. ... |
