With several National Book Awards finalists planning to call for a ceasefire in Gaza at tomorrow's ceremony, Zibby Media has withdrawn its sponsorship of the event over what CEO Zibby Owens called the "inappropriate conduct and collusion of its nominees." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
DK has named Hodder & Stoughton executive publisher Liz Gough to the newly created role of managing director of DK Adult. In the position, Gough is charged with growing and diversifying the publisher's adult publishing program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Attorneys for a group of booksellers and publishing industry associations argue that a district court in Texas correctly enjoined HB 900, and that the injunction should be allowed to stand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
This graphic memoir is a classic immigrant tale, illuminating the political repression characterizing the society author Edel Rodriquez escaped in Cuba—and rebuking its rising right-wing political presence. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Under what it calls a "new English-language management structure," Hachette Livre has named Hachette UK CEO David Shelley head of both Hachette Book Group and HUK, while current HBG CEO Michael Pietsch will retire as CEO and serve as chairman of the new group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
PEN America intends to expand its presence in Florida amid growing book banning and other censorship efforts in the state, and has appointed ACLU veteran Katie Blankenship director of a new Florida office. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-14 05:00:00 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 ]
When Mike Sotelo, vice president of digital content and experience at ad agency Alma, experimented with OpenAI's generative artificial intelligence tool GPT-3 in Spanish earlier this year, it wasn't long before he came across a language gap. Sotelo entered two prompts: "How does a guey [a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-11-13 21:00:00 UTC ]
The best science fiction and fantasy book deals of the day, curated by Book Riot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-11-13 16:53:29 UTC ]
Barnes and Noble has announced their Book of the Year for 2023 — plus the inaugural winner of their Author of the Year award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-11-13 15:03:30 UTC ]
The moment I learned that Shilpi Suneja’s debut novel House of Caravans was about Partition, I reached out to see if she would be interested in doing this interview. All four of my grandparents lived through this event in Punjab—the state that was split to create Pakistan days after India gained... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-11-13 12:00:00 UTC ]
After executive roles at Grosset & Dunlap and Simon & Schuster, Artenstein launched RGA/Lowell House in 1984, and sold the company to the NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group in 1998. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Upper Room’s long-running daily devotional for Christian readers, the Disciplines, expands its scope. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge said he will dismiss part of a lawsuit filed by a group of authors including comedian Sarah Silverman that claims Meta’s Llama AI application infringes their copyrights. However, a core claim of the suit—that Meta’s use of unauthorized copies to train its AI model is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
With University Press Week underway this month, PW examines how the Association of University Presses and its members are bringing the ideas—and ideals—of the academy to the masses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Boutique Italian publishing house 21letters is opening an U.S. subsidiary, 26letters, which is publishing its first title, 'Sempé in New York,' a collection of 'New Yorker' magazine covers by the French-born cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Early numbers from the UAE indicate that the 2023 Sharjah International Book Fair has drawn at least 1.2 million visitors. The post Sharjah’s 42nd Book Fair: More Than1.2 Million Visitors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-11-13 03:54:12 UTC ]
The man made flood that miraculously saved our heroes at the end of O Brother Where Art Thou were an actual occurrence in the 19th and 20th century — and a fairly common one at that — as river valleys across the American West were dammed up and drowned out at the altar... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-11-12 15:30:32 UTC ]
After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics. He won a National Book Award when he was 86. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-11 18:29:17 UTC ]
The award-winning Irish author on losing his father at 18, the drawbacks of English editors and the theme of imprisonment in his workMike McCormack was born in London in 1965 and raised on a farm in County Mayo in the west of Ireland. He published his first story collection, Getting It in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-11 18:00:01 UTC ]