Folio:'s annual Top Women in Media Awards were created to celebrate, inspire and bring together the women who make magazine media such a dynamic industry. The post Top Women in Media: Director-Level Doers appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A leading literary magazine that claimed to have found an unpublished poem by Philip Larkin admits that it was the work of a different writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
As one of the largest and most prominent book and author events in the North American publishing industry, BookExpo America remains a great place to discover new titles, generate rights and licensing business, network and learn about the latest trends. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
When SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently said that with artificial intelligence we’re "summoning the demon", he wasn’t joking. He was genuinely concerned about artificial intelligence turning against humanity, and according to a new book by Ashlee Vance, he still is. In his new book,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kara Richardson Whitely, author of 'Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds' (Seal Press, 9781580055598), will appear on 'Good Morning America' on Wednesday, May 27. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Folio:'s annual Top Women in Media Awards were created to celebrate, inspire and bring together the women who make magazine media such a dynamic industry. The post Folio: Top Women in Media – Rising Stars appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
$10,000 award in memory of publisher Matthew Richell announced at Emerging Writers’ festival in Melbourne, which will also be a partner on the prizeA new Australian literary award has been established in memory of Matthew Richell, the Sydney publisher who died in a surfing accident in 2014 at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
US-based publisher adds 29 titles to its portfolio by buying the Romanes groupNewsquest, the US-owned regional newspaper group with more than 200 titles in the UK, has acquired 29 more by buying the Romanes Media group. Romanes publishes one daily newspaper, the Greenock Telegraph in Scotland,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total revenue rose 3% at Indigo Books & Music in the year ended March 28, 2015 over fiscal 2014, and its net loss fell from $31 million last year to $3.5 million in fiscal 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House and Amazon.co.uk are involved in negotiations for new sales terms, but representatives from the publisher denied speculation that Penguin UK was thinking of withholding it titles from the retailer if a deal isn't reached. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
America's Test Kitchen hopes to give home chefs a better option than the "excess" of online recipes with its big Christmas book, '100 Recipes: The Absolute Best Ways to Make the True Essentials.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The California mini-chain will add its 12th location in July 2016 in Santa Clara. In Pittsburgh, Natalie Sacco and Trevor Thomas purchased the Raven Award-winning mystery bookshop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Industry sources say Penguin may block sales of its books on Amazon because of a contract dispute, but both sides are playing down the rowThe world’s biggest publisher, Penguin Random House, could block sales of its books on Amazon if it fails to resolve a contract dispute with the online... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Christopher Nolan-esque Argentinean thriller, two literary Spanish novels, a Finnish YA series, and more are making waves in the global rights scene this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan is to publish the autobiography of former Formula One driver Mark Webber this autumn. Webber, who retired from Formula One at the end of the 2013 season, and now races in the LMP1 sportscar category of the FIA World Endurance Championship for Porsche. The driver was “at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has appointed Jamie Coleman as commissioning editor on its non-fiction team, as well as making a number of other appointments and promotions. Coleman, who will publish humour and gift titles for the Boxtree list, joins from Greene & Heaton literary agency, where he started in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Meek's Private Island (Verso Books) has won the Orwell Prize for books, which celebrates political writing. Meek was announced as the winner of the annual prize at a ceremony at the University of Westminster yesterday (21st May). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s has appointed Julie Jefferies, currently commercial director at Cornerstone, as finance and commercial director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Summersdale's recently-launched health imprint Vie will publish a memoir by British psychiatrist Linda Gask this September. The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression chronicles Gask's own experiences of depression. Despite spending her career helping other people's mental... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lifestyle media company Mode Media raised $30 million in Series G funding on Thursday to invest in its technology platform. Hubert Burda Media led the round, according to TechCrunch. The company has raised $186 million in equity funding to date. CEO Samir Arora co-founded the Brisbane-based... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]