Want to learn more about other 33 1/3's latest titles? Here's a smattering of recent releases from Bloomsbury's line of short books about popular music. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Employees at D&Q, the Montreal-based literary graphic novel publisher, and its sister bookstore, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, are unionizing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Bloomsbury Academic's line of books about albums, 33 1/3, PW talked to the Publisher at Bloomsbury who oversees the series, Leah Babb-Rosenfeld, about the book line's origins, what makes it unique, and what the lasting mark of these books will be. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
'Blackouts,' 'The Rediscovery of America,' 'unincorporated territory [åmot],' 'The Words That Remain,' and 'A First Time for Everything' took home this year's National Book Awards at a ceremony that concluded with more than a dozen finalists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Sansigre has been named chief financial officer at Penguin Random House, effective January 1, succeeding Jim Thompson, who will retire next year. Sawhney has been promoted to chief strategy officer, effective immediately. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
On November 9, following nine months of negotiations, Powell’s Books workers represented by ILWU Local #5 rejected a tentative contract with Powell’s management. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
After 28 years, a book club in Venice, Calif., has finally finished reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce — but the club's founder Gerry Fialka would argue you're never really done reading it. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-11-14 22:49:00 UTC ]
The 10-year-old Shanghai International Children's Book Fair welcomes back its partner, Bologna, for collaboration and support. The post Shanghai’s Children’s Book Fair at 10: A Fifth Year for Its Bologna Partnership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-11-14 22:06:29 UTC ]
The head of Hachette Book Group, Michael Pietsch, is retiring as CEO and will be succeeded by Hachette UK CEO David Shelley Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-11-14 20:46:13 UTC ]
Fei-Fei Li, author of "The Worlds I See," and Joy Buolamwini, author of "Unmasking AI," join the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-14 20:40:08 UTC ]
12 Books for Tolerance and Understanding (2023), by The Editors of WLT Lit Lists [email protected] Tue, 11/14/2023 - 14:07 For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-11-14 20:07:42 UTC ]
Michael Pietsch will be replaced on Jan. 1 by the chief executive of Hachette UK, who will helm both divisions, bringing them into closer alignment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-14 20:01:58 UTC ]
After a series of delays, Hogwarts Legacy is now available for the Nintendo Switch console. The wizardly game was released in February for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC, with the PS4 and Xbox One versions following in May. The Switch version was also expected during the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-11-14 19:21:59 UTC ]
As artificial intelligence impacts the operations of digital media publishers, Reddit chief operating officer Jen Wong believes that the community platform might be one of the few companies insulated as a result of being focused on human interactivity and first-hand knowledge sharing. "We think... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-11-14 18:47:50 UTC ]
In bookstores' L.A. heyday, shops were as ubiquitous as a certain coffee chain is today. But we're no slouches today, even if the internet removed many stores' physical presences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-14 16:00:50 UTC ]
I first heard of Willa Cather as a teenage bookseller in North Denver, at a new, used, rare, and antiquarian bookshop that had once been a mechanic’s garage. At the bookstore, there was an entire section of Cather’s famous works, which I had labeled meticulously with colored markers on scraps of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-14 10:00:45 UTC ]
It’s the middle of November, which means that, for many of us, the days are a not-quite-enviable blend of colder and shorter (why we still use Daylight Savings Time is a mystery I’ll save for elsewhere). But never fear, there’s a bit of brightness ahead: a whole slew of exciting new books to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-14 10:00:13 UTC ]
Libraries are sacred space within the unending, unrelenting madness, the profane that is Society, places where the predominant ideology is to inform. The Library of Alexandria was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; the Library of Congress is a wonderfully ( dis )organized... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-14 09:35:32 UTC ]
Several digital publishers are doubling down on the business they still carry some authority over: events. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2023-11-14 05:01:00 UTC ]
It took Phaidon, which turned 100 this year, 82 years to step into the kitchen. But once it did, it found a niche of its own—and owned it. Executive commissioning editor of food Emily Takoudes spoke with PW about the publisher's cookbook program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]