Dr Jekyll & the Penguin
We bring news of an animated short film for Penguin Books from director Woof Wan-Bau which narrates the tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with Penguin’s favourite bird in starring role. ’All human beings,...
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Music billboards rock LA
We are really enjoying the photography in the book Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards Of The Sunset Strip by Robert Landau. It does as it says in the title in featuring photos snapped by Landau of LA’s urban...
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Taking on Kindle
Deutsche Telekom has joined forces with German booksellers Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel and Club Bertelsmann to launch a new e-reader, Tolino Shine. The device comes to market at €99 with an initial...
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Honest brand comic
Beverage maker Honest Tea is creating a comic book, Mission in a Bottle, to relate the history of the brand that makes bottled iced tea, written by co-founders Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, with...
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Amazon snaps up Goodreads
Amazon.com is acquiring booklovers social network Goodreads, which boasts more than 16 million members and in excess of 30,000 book clubs on its website. “We’re now going to be able to move faster in...
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The book’s in the mail
Random House Australia and ad agency BMF are repackaging books. Readers buying a book with one of the new Mailbooks For Good dust jackets simply have to turn the covers inside out so that the books...
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What we need is a film about marketing. About soft drink – aka sugar and water – marketing. About the backstabbing world of selling such sweetened beverages. Cue Syrup, starring Shiloh Fernandez, Amber...
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Petite publishing
Tim Waterstone, the founder of UK bookstores Waterstones, is planning to launch a digital books service which will charge readers a single flat fee to access to as much content as they can consume...
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Branded content booked
The UK Branded Content Marketing Association has published its first eBook, Best of Branded Content Marketing, to mark its 10th anniversary. The book showcases the best examples of branded content from...
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Fall in love with novel podcasts
Amazon is launching Kindle Love Stories, a weekly romance novel podcast which will include author interviews, book recommendations and commentary from book reviewers. Listeners can participate via a...
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cool creative: on your bikes
Ready to ride with some cool bikes? We’ve got them, via Velo – 2nd Gear a book covering bicycle culture and style from Gestalten featuring two-wheelers ranging from cargo bikes to city cruisers and...
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Dracula for fashionistas
Author Scarlett Stoker has published the eBook Dracula in Dior, claiming that it’s the first-ever style guide ‘for vampires, undead obsessives and Twilight and True Blood fans’. “It’s time for older...
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UK ebook sales spike
Wednesday’s metric: UK ebook sales spiked 134% in 2012 to total £216 million, according to The Publishers Association. Digital formats – ebooks, audiobooks downloads and online subscriptions –...
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Amazon cracks book mark
Tuesday’s metric: Amazon Publishing is touting its first million-copy author on the form of Oliver Pötzsch and his Hangman’s Daughter three-book series on the AmazonCrossing imprint. “If somebody had...
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Bookmarking AR
Pan Macmillan has published two books – Peter James’ Dead Man’s Time and Reviver by Seth Patrick – which the publisher claims are among the first to incorporate augmented reality. Using the Blippar...
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Fragrant prose
Stylist magazine is an homage to wordsmiths this week with its ‘Collector’s Edition: The Literature Special’ which also features fragrance brand support. “Few things arouse the imagination or evoke...
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7write books cash
Online book publishing platform 7write has just raised $250k in seed funding from a group of investors including the likes of early PayPal financier Peter Davison. 7write not only supports...
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Amazon goes graphic with Jet
Amazon Publishing has launched a new imprint, Jet City Comics, focusing on comics and graphic novels. Jet City rolls out with new comics from George R.R. Martin, Hugh Howey, and Neal Stephenson,...
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Mind the books
Books on the Underground is on track for London’s readers. The notion of Hollie Belton, a creative at agency Leo Burnett, the reading-on-rails initiative gets readers to leave finished books on the...
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Fade to Black
Cool London media guy Root Wilson is making his debut in Fade to Black. The novel, written by brand-e content director Steve Mullins, launches officially today on Amazon’s Kindle digital publishing...
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