Press Releases
Faber Factory Powered by Constellation
Faber and Perseus Books Join Forces to Provide Global Digital Services.
Faber and Faber in the UK and The Perseus Books Group in the US, two of the world’s leading independent book publishers and distributors, have announced a new joint venture company to provide a suite of global digital services for independent publishers based in the UK, Ireland and Commonwealth.
The two companies have entered into an agreement to establish Faber Factory Powered by Constellation, a joint venture based in the UK. (www.faberfactory.co.uk)
Faber Partners with NetGalley
Faber and Faber partners with NetGalley to make advanced reading copies available digitally.
Faber and Faber is the first UK publisher to partner with NetGalley, the innovative and easy-to-use online service and connection point for book publishers and professional readers. Under the terms of the partnership Faber will release secure digital proofs of their titles through the US-based website to reviewers, booksellers, librarians and bloggers in the UK and internationally.
The Waste Land for iPad
Faber and Touch Press Create iPad edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
Faber and Touch Press today (7 June 2011) announced that a new digital edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is now available on the App Store. The Waste Land for iPad brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years, illuminated by a wealth of interactive features.
Drama Online
Bloomsbury and Faber announce Drama Online – a new partnership to provide online access to the world’s finest drama from the last two and half thousand years.
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Faber and Faber Limited will launch Drama Online in October 2012, creating a digital content platform for libraries, educators, students and researchers to be sold via subscription and perpetual access to academic institutions.
Faber Factory
A Unique One Stop Digital Service for Independent Publishers.
Faber and Faber is delighted to announce the launch of Faber Factory (www.faberfactory.co.uk) - a fully comprehensive digital service to enable independent publishers to have an immediate and cost effective digital publishing programme without having to invest in additional resource and add to their overhead. Faber Factory is a unique digital service by a publisher for publishers that offers:
- text digitisation: file conversion, management and distribution
- excellent relationships with a wide range of retailers and aggregators around the world
- free storage
- expert and comprehensive sales reporting
Faber New Poets
Faber and Arts Council England announce an exciting initiative to support new poets.
Assembling a first collection can seem like a daunting challenge to a young poet: how do they know when the manuscript is ready? How many poems should it contain? Whose opinions should they seek out? Can it be better to wait?
Faber and Faber is delighted to announce a major new venture to support and promote new poets, funded by Arts Council England.
Faber Finds
Faber and Faber launches a new imprint that aims to combine the best of the old with the best of the new.
Faber Finds is a groundbreaking new publishing imprint whose aim is to restore to print for future generations a wealth of lost classics and authors of distinction using the latest in digital technology. There can be little more disheartening for an avid reader than to discover that your favourite book has gone out of print, or a much-loved author’s work has become completely unavailable, and Faber Finds seeks to go some way to remedying this situation.
LOOPS
Faber and Faber and Domino Recording Co. - two of the UK’s leading and innovative independent media companies - are delighted to announce a joint publishing venture scheduled to hit the shops and the web in July 2009. Domino and Faber are combining resources, a deep love and working knowledge of pop music, pop culture and literature to publish a twice-yearly journal dedicated to contemporary writing about music.