Telegraph Media Group confirms Clissitt will not be joining Bloomberg as Grazia editor-in-chief lands deputy editor job with focus on lifestyle contentBen Clissitt is staying with Telegraph Media Group and Grazia’s Jane Bruton is taking a senior editorial role in the publisher’s latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A call to nonviolent action with examples from history; stories of the quest for grace. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A US fantasy television series based on books by top-selling American author Terry Brooks is to be shot in West Auckland. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
'American Sniper,' the memoir by the former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, ousted Laura Hillenbrand’s 'Unbroken' from the top spot on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list, for the week ended January 12. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carol Evans is leaving Working Mother Media after helping to lead the company for more than 35 years. Evans grew WMM from a single magazine—Working Mother, launched in 1978—into a magazine, website, events producer and research institute, along with two companion associations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jill Colbert has been appointed as the interim chief executive of CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, following the departure of Annie Mauger from the role. Mauger leaves the body at the end of January to take up the role of director of national business... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize has made significant tweaks to its rules for 2015, abandoning its former rule on the availability of print books following the longlist announcement, placing time limits on the eligibility of titles published outside the UK, and defining the term "publisher" more closely. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author David Walliams has written an exclusive picture book for Comic Relief. The Queen’s Orang-Utan will be published byHarperCollins Children’s Books on the 26th February, ahead of Red Nose Day on the 13th March, for £4.99. All of the profits, which will amount to at least £3 from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the award, five schools in Britain and Ireland will receive funds for their libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of digital publishing is increasingly borrowing from the long history of newspapers' political cartoons. The post Digital publishers turn to cartoons to cover the news appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Madeline McIntosh has implemented a wide-ranging restructuring of the division. Among the changes, Brian Tart is being given the reins at Viking, succeeding Clare Ferraro, who is leaving the company. Additionally, the Hudson Street Press and Gotham Books imprints are being folded. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Shelley is to take over as c.e.o. of Little, Brown in July, with current c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie working on “special projects” for the publisher and its parent company Hachette UK until her retirement at the end of 2016. Shelley, hitherto Little, Brown publisher, has now been appointed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors from nine different countries have been longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). Three Lebanese authors made the longlist: Antoine Douaihy for Drowning in Lake Morez (Dar al-Mourad); Jabbour Douaihy for The American Neighbourhood (Saqi Books); and Jana... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Buzzfeed, HuffPo, Mashable and Vice have all set up in the U.K. Agencies weigh in on their collective impact. The post Why British publishers don’t sweat new US competition appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Through the award, five schools in Britain and Ireland will receive funds for their libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
For most magazine companies, 2014 was a difficult year. Backs against the wall, publishers looked beyond print for growth -- to digital media, live events, consumer products and TV deals.Vice magazine is way ahead of them.The free magazine founded in 1994 as Voice of Montreal has grown into one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has launched a new series of online courses starring S&S authors, who will "expand on and complement" their published work in video tutorials. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Book Doctor seeks out books for a German-English couple who want children’s books that reflect their duel heritage I’m German and my wife is English. We are bringing their children up bilingually. I especially like the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture books because they bring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scandals, shake-ups, sticky scholars, and best books—here are the top ten religion stories of 2014 from publishersweekly.com. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nathaniel Marunas has been named publisher of the U.S. division of British publisher Quercus, and David Shelley has been named as the successor to Ursula Mackenzie at Little, Brown U.K., with MacKenzie set to retire. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]