In the first of a two-part series, literary agent Evangelia Avloniti considers the cultural reasons why so little Greek literature is translated. The post Greek Literature Abroad: A Modern Odyssey (Part 1) appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is failing in its legal duties when making staff redundant, according to union GMB. Meanwhile the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against an Amazon promotion for its Prime membership service The GMB union has accused the internet giant of failing to follow... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joel Richardson has been appointed as publisher at twenty7, the new digital-first adult fiction imprint of Bonnier Publishing. Richardson joins from Quercus, where he held positions including audiobook publisher and editor, where he worked with authors including Joel Dicker and Hester Browne. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twelve members of staff left The Folio Society in January, the publishing house has confirmed. A spokesperson said the job losses came as a result of a "fundamental restructure" of the company, with The Folio Society now employing a total of 58 people. The job losses came from marketing,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
As millions of children celebrate World Book Day, Tim Muffett has been looking at what makes bedtime reading a best seller. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Headline Publishing Group has acquired the “quirky and original” autobiography of reality TV star and “Celebrity Big Brother” winner, Charlotte Crosby. Deputy publishing director Sarah Emsley bought world rights from Kate O'Shea at Bold Management in the autobiography, titled ME ME... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Douglas & McIntyre, House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books, Greystone Books, and New Society Publishers will move distribution to the University of Toronto Press beginning in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among the suggestions to improve Greece's economy has been the prescription that it deregulate the book market, yet several people oppose this view. The post Should Greece Should Deregulate Its Book Market? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The JS Group has seen “significant” growth in the take-up of e-textbooks last year, helping it to a 14.5% increase in higher education UK revenues. However, a decline in legal print sales and the reduction in value of a contract with the Ministry of Justice meant the Hammicks legal arm saw a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pentagram's Emily Oberman tells us about how she channeled her inner super-nerd to help Taschen create the ultimate SNL Bible.Pentagram's Emily Oberman is pretty much Saturday Night Live's go-to designer at this point. She's done three separate SNL identities, including this year's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel, The People in the Trees—about a doctor in search of the secret to immortality—was published in 2013. Now Doubleday is releasing her second novel, A Little Life, which follows four friends in New York as they come of age together over the course of three decades.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six months after Martin Amis‘ latest novel The Zone of Interest was turned down by the author’s usual German publisher Hanser, the book - set in a fictionalized Auschwitz - has finally found a new home. Zurich-based Kein & Aber will publish Interessengebiet in September. “Martin Amis is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creative Scotland is providing £100,000 funding to support 10 full-time, year-long traineeships across the creative industries. The programme aims to support the employment prospects for people aged 20-30 who are interested in developing a career in the arts and culture industries. It will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Having been turned down by his long-standing publisher Hanser Verlag, dark comedy finds home with Kein and AberMartin Amis’s latest novel, The Zone of Interest, has finally found a German-language home six months after it was turned down by his long-standing German publishing house, thought by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir will reportedly be adapted as a film that will be directed by Steven Spielberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Toby Mundy, the founder and former c.e.o. of Atlantic Books, is to become the first director of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. Meanwhile submission deadlines for publishers will change to “accommodate the timelines and deadlines of the publishing calendar”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scouting agency Maria B. Campbell Associates is expanding its London office, adding three new clients, all houses within the Netherlands-based VBK Group: Atlas Contact, Kosmos Personal Growth and Ten Have. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
If Facebook is looking to steal TV ad dollars with its autoplay video ads, then its photo-sharing service Instagram has its sights set on print magazine money with a new ad format.Instagram has created a slideshow-like ad format that lets advertisers include multiple photos in an ad and a link... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Minneapolis literary nonprofit is Brooklyn-based Emily Books to launch the Emily Books imprint. The partnership, according to Coffee House's Chris Fischbach, is paving the way for Emily Books co-founders, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to eventually launch their own press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ultra-cheap Little Black Classics, celebrating imprint’s 80th birthday, sell 70,000 copies in first week – with Marx and Engels the favourite so farMore than 1,700 bargain copies of The Communist Manifesto have sold in the last week, in the form of an 80p edition of Karl Marx and Friedrich... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]