The parent company of 'Publishers Weekly' and the Seville, Spain–based publishing company have ended their business arrangement. With the end of the agreement, Lantia will no longer publish the bimonthly publication 'PW en Español.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Pretendo Network, an open-source Nintendo Network alternative, no longer requires a hacked Wii U console. With Nintendo’s servers for the obsolete console shutting down on Monday, the Pretendo Network shared a new workaround that provides (limited) access to its homebrew servers without... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-04-09 19:27:49 UTC ]
Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language modelsStaff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-09 15:36:14 UTC ]
British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire reports near-£54m deficit due to TalkTV costsThe Sun lost £66m last year and its online audience dropped by 4 million readers as the newspaper continued to grapple with the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal.Total losses at the Murdoch-owned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-09 14:02:36 UTC ]
From books about disintegrating relationships and countries to a worker’s-eye view of Korea and a story of farmers in Brazil, the selected titles engage with current realities, say the judging panelKorean writer Hwang Sok-yong and German author Jenny Erpenbeck appear on this year’s International... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-09 13:00:09 UTC ]
Four of the five shortlisted titles in the Carol Shields Prize are from Penguin Random House companies, while one is from SPJ Lit. The post Toronto: The $150,000 Carol Shields Prize Names Its Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-04-09 12:01:04 UTC ]
Elegant, luxurious, catlike … Netflix’s Andrew Scott-starring series is devastatingly unhurried – although not all viewers agree• Don’t get the What’s On TV newsletter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe reviews for Netflix’s elegant new Patricia Highsmith adaptation, Ripley, have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-09 11:00:06 UTC ]
This year’s recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to authors and illustrators of children’s books, are Austria’s Heinz Janisch, for writing; and Canada’s Sydney Smith, for illustration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Each year the Bologna Children’s Book Fair honors a half dozen publishers with the BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year; the 2024 winnerswere announced on April 8. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Led by books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros, fiction sales were up in the first quarter this year, but nonfiction declines resulted in a 1.7% drop in total unit sales of print books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
The latest novels by Leif Enger, Abby Jimenez, and Claire Lombardo are among this month's picks by the nation's biggest book clubs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Maia Kobabe’s 'Gender Queer' topped the list of last year's most challenged books, which is again dominated by stories by and about LGBTQ+ persons and people of color, voices that ALA officials said “censors want to silence.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Dozens of former publishers that had been served by SPD have signed with Asterism and Itasca as frustration mounts over the lack of information coming from the now-shuttered distributor. Meanwhile, Ingram is offering some flexibility in its 60-day deadline to have inventory removed from its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Australia’s Indigenous Literacy Foundation is the winner of the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish krona. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
As expected, this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair is itself touched by and reflective of the global political scene, particularly the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
The publishers and booksellers of Germany are developing a special 2024 World Book Day campaign for April 23. The post World Book Day: German Publishers Expect to Give Books to 1.1 Million Kids appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-04-08 20:04:30 UTC ]
The 61st Bologna Children's Book Fair surpasses last year's exhibitor count, suggesting a strong post-pandemic return. The post Bologna Children’s Trade Show Opens: 1,523 Exhibitors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-04-08 19:47:07 UTC ]
First US Anthology Celebrates Literary Translators’ Work from Nineteen Languages, by The Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Mon, 04/08/2024 - 14:33 The first US anthology celebrating the breadth of literary translators’ work debuts... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-04-08 19:33:31 UTC ]
Coca-Cola is using augmented reality to enhance its latest collaboration with Disney, allowing consumers to unlock digital collectibles by scanning limited-edition packaging featuring illustrations of more than 30 Marvel characters. The brand introduced the campaign with... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-04-08 18:05:36 UTC ]
The astonishing breadth of her writing was a great inspiration – as was she, in her passionate advocacy for children’s books• Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94It is quite rare to find a writer like Lynne Reid Banks, who tries so many different subjects, and so... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-08 10:18:15 UTC ]