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Educational Development Corp. added 1,862 home sale reps in the first quarter, helping to drive a 59% jump in sales in the home business division. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster imprint Touchstone has created Glommable, a site that will curate content from Internet personalities and authors from across publishing houses. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Mitzi Angel, former publisher of Faber Inc. titles in the U.S., is to return to London in the autumn to take up the new role of Faber adult publisher, joining the board and reporting to CEO Stephen Page. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seth Meyers on Late Night, a US TV talk show, has embraced interviewing novelists and the result is often a boost in book sales following broadcast. The post A TV Talk Show Appearance That Can Change an Author’s Future appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Academic philosophers tend to have a narrow view of what is valuable philosophical work. Hiring, tenure, promotion and prestige depend mainly on one's ability to produce journal articles in a particular theoretical, abstract style, mostly in reaction to a small group of canonical and 20th century... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The anticipation at Nationals Park was audible when Bryce Harper stepped into the batter's box Saturday. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Children’s and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate will next week release the first ever Dahl app. Twit or Miss is based on The Twits. Developed with Aardman Digital for children aged six to 11, it is a “food fight” game in which players have to swipe food away from the sleeping... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago has acquired the memoir of American musician, actor and writer Carrie Brownstein. Ursula Doyle, associate publisher of Virago, bought UK rights in the memoir, titled Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, from Hal Fessenden at Penguin Random House US. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No one who reads To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time now can read it as we did before this week. No teacher, no student can ever ignore the complicated history of the book and its characters. Go Set a Watchman, published on Tuesday, changes everything. But is that as terrible as it sounds?... Continue reading at 'Stuff'
[ Stuff | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) StatShot report has recorded publisher book sales down 6.6% for the first quarter of 2015, at $2.2bn compared to $2.38bn for the first quarter of last year. Data for the StatShot comes from just over 1,200 publishers. The figures represent... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK Children's has acquired a teen book by Emily Barr in a six-figure deal. Editorial director Ruth Knowles bought world rights to The One Memory of Flora Banks, along with a second stand-alone novel, from Lauren Pearson at Curtis Brown. The book is about Flora, a teenage... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Describe your role I project manage the creation of our audiobooks by a wide range of fiction and non-fiction authors. This involves reading manuscripts and identifying books to record, acquiring audio rights if necessary, casting the right voices to bring stories to life and arranging... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Amazon said sales during its first ever Prime Day broke global records, receiving 398 orders per second across Prime-eligible countries. Sales on 15th July or Prime Day – when the retailer offered heavy discounts to encourage shoppers to sign up to Amazon Prime membership – were 18% higher... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Writer Jane Gardam is to be awarded the Charles-Chichester Award for a Lifetime's Excellence in Short Fiction at a special event held at this year's Charleston Small Wonder Short Story Festival. Gardam, who is the author of short stories as well as novels including the Old Filth trilogy, will... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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On the occasion of its 20th birthday, The Bookseller would like to wish Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos many happy returns. Amazon is a remarkable business led by a remarkable visionary. He may not acknowledge it but Bezos is the natural heir to people such as Sir Allen Lane and Tim... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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"Go Set a Watchman" may have met a cool reception from some critics, but readers have made it the hot book of the summer. Harper Lee’s second novel will likely end up being the top-selling book for 2015. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rise of Facebook, Twitter and even Snapchat as viable news-consumption and distribution platforms has forced publishers to do some soul-searching. More people are getting their news via the platforms rather than through publishers themselves, thr ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'
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YA author Annabel Pitcher talks about her new book Silence is Goldfish (Orion, published in October), in which teenage girl Tess has to deal with twitter bullying, inappropriate teachers, and discovering that her Dad is not her biological father. What inspired you to write the book? Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Filings set stage for new ruling in GSU copyright case and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s retro-facing sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, hit bookshelves this week. The story of its discovery—it was actually Lee’s first draft of Mockingbird—and publication reads like a novel of its own, and the whole affair has been mired in controversy. But now it’s... Continue reading at 'Wired'
[ Wired | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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