Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is back this year, returning on October 8 and 9. The “fall Prime Day” of sorts has served as the online retailer’s unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season for the past few years. We expect most of the deals to be Prime exclusives, meaning you must be an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-10-03 17:54:46 UTC ]
Report finds that books with main characters from minority ethnicities or who are disabled or neurodivergent are written by those who do not share the protagonist’s identityMore than half of children’s books with marginalised main characters are by writers and illustrators who do not share their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-03 17:10:48 UTC ]
Many people wondered if the clip to promote the former first lady's upcoming memoir was actually a campaign ad for her husband's opponent. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2024-10-03 17:00:08 UTC ]
Television commentator and the moral conscience of snooker through his campaigning journalism on the sportClive Everton, who has died aged 87, was known to millions worldwide as the calm, authoritative voice of televised snooker, but of even greater importance was his work as a campaigning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-03 16:19:28 UTC ]
Regulator says advert by publisher of the Citizen newspaper ‘likely to harm national unity’ Tanzania has suspended the online operations of a top newspaper publisher after one of its publications ran an animated advert depicting the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and referencing a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-03 15:13:30 UTC ]
“Every night the same nightmare interrupts my sleep.” With this sentence Scholastique Mukasonga begins her debut Cockroaches, a memoir that came out in French in 2006. That year, Mukasonga was fifty. She had been living in Normandy since 1992, when she moved there hoping to find employment as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2024-10-03 15:01:54 UTC ]
We know the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days event is coming up soon, so it’s time to start thinking about what you may want to snag at a discount during the sale. Some may shudder at the thought of holiday shopping already, but if you pay the $139 annual fee for Prime, these sale events are a great... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-10-03 14:45:46 UTC ]
New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks will step down on Oct. 16, months earlier than he had previously planned to, City Hall disclosed late Wednesday.The unexpected move may deepen questions about the reasons for Banks’ departure, which comes after his phones were seized by federal agents... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-10-03 13:14:57 UTC ]
Sinclair's NewsON and Mindgrub have announced a collaboration to launch an Apple Vision Pro app for NewsON. This is Sinclair's first foray into spatial computing specifically for local news delivery, blending digital content with physical surroundings. Using Apple's... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-10-03 13:10:09 UTC ]
Every time I read Jamie Quatro’s fiction—from her debut collection I Want to Show You More, to her 2018 novel Fire Sermon, to her short stories in the New Yorker—I experience the same edge-of-my-seat pleasure. Quatro’s characters are as alive as flesh-and-blood people; the Southern landscape... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2024-10-03 12:00:00 UTC ]
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association wrapped up its annual trade show on October 1 in Portland, Ore.. The show, executive director Brian Juenemann said, saw its best attendance since 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
When Papp International acquired Chouette in 2023, it brought the ancillary publishing program for The Little Prince into its licensing portfolio. The publisher has just closed a deal to become the lead publisher for ancillary publishing in the Americas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
On the occasion of her literary agency's 30th birthday, PW spoke with Jane Dystel about how the publishing business has changed over the years, why she loves being an agent, and what makes her fall in love with a manuscript. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge has ordered the Crawford County Public Library in Arkansas to stop segregating books with LGBTQ themes into special “social sections,” finding that the policy “was motivated in substantial part by a desire to impede users’ access." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
On the occasion of her literary agency's 30th birthday, PW spoke with Jane Dystel about how the publishing business has changed over the years, why she loves being an agent, and what makes her fall in love with a manuscript. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has renewed its master publishing deal with BBC Studios for the hit preschool animated series Bluey. Bluey books have sold more than 20 million copies in 22 languages worldwide, including 8.5 million in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
The EUDR, which will require that any company that sells a product containing wood in the European Union prove that its source tree was not cut down in a deforested region, is likely to take effect next December, a year after its planned rollout. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
'Wonder' author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel 'White Bird,' a sequel of sorts to 'Wonder,' was published in 2019 and five years later, the film adaptation is set to hit the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Melania Trump writes in her upcoming memoir that a woman has the right to an abortion, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday, while her husband, Donald Trump, backs the ability for U.S. states to restrict the procedure. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-10-03 01:19:18 UTC ]
Fondazione LIA's new APACE: 30 million Europeans await the EU Accessibility Act, but will publishers be there for them? The post Europe’s APACE: Only 1 in 4 Publishers Produce Accessible Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-02 23:48:06 UTC ]