Awe will join the publisher in the newly created role on June 3, and will oversee the publisher's strategic initiatives, business development, and central marketing, as well as its audio division and publishers-at-large. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
To help achieve Hachette's corporate goal of creating a unified English-language publishing structure, CEO David Shelley has promoted Ben Sevier to head the newly-formed Grand Central Publishing Group, combined the U.K. and U.S. distribution businesses under one leader, and divided Hachette UK... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Araneo, who worked at Penguin, Doubleday, and Bookspan before creating the contracts department at Writers House in 2006, was the literary agency's executive v-p and director of business affairs. He died of natural causes on May 4. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
'Our shared goal is to expand the audience for our authors and their books,' says S&S CEO Jonathan Karp in announcing the VBK acquisition. The post Simon & Schuster To Acquire the Netherlands’ VBK appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-05-06 21:39:31 UTC ]
Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life, while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Gaza warThis year’s Pulitzer winners include the New York Times and ProPublica as well as authors including Jayne Anne Phillips and Jonathan Eig.The Pulitzers honored the best in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-05-06 21:10:55 UTC ]
The winners and nominated finalists of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention a ticket into a very illustrious club. The full list of winners... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-06 19:40:29 UTC ]
Amazon’s entry-level 16GB Kindle is on sale for $80, which is a discount of 20 percent. This is the latest iteration of the standard ereader, dating back to 2022. Amazon doesn’t do too many Kindle hardware updates, so we don’t know if this sale precludes a forthcoming refresh. The sale covers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-05-06 17:12:07 UTC ]
Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-06 09:00:26 UTC ]
Daniel Noboa, the president of Ecuador, might have saved himself a lot of trouble, if he had only read more Latin American literature. Perhaps he would not have ordered the police to storm the Mexican embassy to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been granted asylum there. That... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-06 08:58:43 UTC ]
Oftentimes, a reader asks what it’s like to publish a memoir with family members in it. How do you seek permission? What do you do when someone in your family protests your storytelling? Do you write it anyway? In this transmission, the radio delivers the questions as something else: Where is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-06 08:53:35 UTC ]
On stage and screen, self-referential works such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequalityOfficers storm a ballroom, releasing a flurry of bullets that pierce through a Black man as he collapses in a pool of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-05-06 08:00:34 UTC ]
Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips, journalist Nathan Thrall, and biographer Jonathan Eig were among the winners of the 108th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and in Arts and Letters, announced May 6. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
S&S has acquired VBK, the largest Dutch book publishing house, and its subsidiaries and sister companies. The move marks the first major instance of a promised international expansion at S&S since its acquisition by private equity firm KKR last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-05 19:47:27 UTC ]
The WNBA star does not hold back in her account of her Russian detainment and its aftermath. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2024-05-04 09:55:00 UTC ]
Daily Telegraph featured Jordan Knight as a spokesperson for his self-founded Migration Watch• Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates• Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn anti-immigration TikToker was featured in the Daily Telegraph as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-05-04 00:00:27 UTC ]
Egypt's Diwan Publishing holds a place of honor at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair with its new series of Naguib Mahfouz covers. The post At Abu Dhabi Book Fair: Diwan’s New Naguib Mahfouz Book Covers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-05-03 23:56:56 UTC ]
The Irish author discusses “Long Island,” the sequel to his 2009 novel “Brooklyn.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-03 19:34:04 UTC ]
Libraries in B.C. have been targeted by a hacker who threatened to release user data if a ransom was not paid. The B.C. Libraries Co-operative said it was contacted by a hacker "attempting to extort payment" using private information taken from its servers. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-05-03 18:55:02 UTC ]
Food is often described as a universal language that brings people together. In recent years, various content creators such as QCP have taken over social media with their food creations. Known for preparing different Italian dishes, Gianluca Conte--also known as QCP--has... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-05-03 18:16:20 UTC ]