Courtesy of Publishers Weekly By Jim Milliot Total sales at Penguin Group rose 1% for 2012, to £1.05 billion pounds, although operating profit declined 12%, to £98 million. Figures benefited slightly from currency exchange fluctuations. Penguin chairman John Makinson...
40 YEARS OF ROCKY HORROR Stephen James Walker and David J Howe, editorial directors at Telos Publishing Ltd, have acquired world rights to a new book celebrating 40 years of the phenomenon that is The Rocky Horror Show. STILL THE BEAST IS FEEDING is written by two...
Interview Conducted by Dave Silva Hellnotes: Tell us about the birth of Necro Publications. David Barnett: I had gotten back into reading in 1988 after my mom got WEAVEWORLD by Clive Barker from the book club and let me read it. Loved it and then a friend gave me her...
Courtesy of Publishers Weekly By Jim Milliot It’s been a while since booksellers sued publishers but that’s what’s just happened as three independent bookstores have filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against the big six houses and Amazon charging that by...
Courtesy of Publishers Weekly Barring any surprises, the final settlement agreed to by Macmillan with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle alleged price-fixing charges will be in place by early July. In an order signed yesterday by the court, the publisher was...
Dark Continents releases Matthew Tait’s Slander Hall for the first time in trade paperback for only $6.99 Description: Fifteen years ago the affluent gated-community of Slander Hall was the setting of the largest mass suicide in U.S history, dozens of men and women...
