CEO Michael Pietsch said the 5.2% decline was attributable to "a lighter publication schedule" compared to the same period last year and "a downward trend" in the overall publishing market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
African publishers at Nairobi International Book Fair look at market challenges: the desire to produce fiction and local-language literature. The post Nairobi International Book Fair: Publishers’ Viewpoints appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-15 23:12:14 UTC ]
Open letter rebukes LitProm decision to cancel award ceremony for Adania Shibli due to ‘war started by Hamas’Israel-Hamas war: latest news and live updatesSeveral prominent authors and publishers from around the world have accused the Frankfurt Book Fair of “shutting down” Palestinian voices,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-10-15 18:11:54 UTC ]
Siri and Alexa were only the beginning. As voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies continue to mature, the days of typing on keyboards to interact with the digital world around us could be coming to an end — and sooner than many of us anticipated. Where... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-10-15 14:30:20 UTC ]
Stephen Rubin, the outspoken and influential publishing executive whose publication of works by such authors as Dan Brown, John Grisham, and Michael Wolff made him a force in the book business over the past 40 years, died on October 13 in Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The world of ants is a mysterious one, as we’re still learning new stuff about the most populous insect on Earth. Soon we’ll be able to get a more hands-on approach with everyone’s favorite picnic-ruiners, thanks to the forthcoming insect sim Empire of the Ants. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-10-13 19:10:34 UTC ]
A prominent cookbook author, critic and memoirist, she reinvigorated the dishes of her native France with a globe-trotter’s sensibility. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-13 19:06:37 UTC ]
A Frankfurt-Paris Fellow, Karla Kutzner is the founder of Berlin's InterKontinental press with a bookstore and literature festival. The post Frankfurt Fellowships: Karla Kutzner, Germany’s InterKontinental appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-13 17:55:51 UTC ]
Britney Spears said that 'reliving everything' in her memoir, 'The Woman in Me,' has been 'heart-wrenching,' so she's only recording an intro for the audiobook. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-10-13 17:27:42 UTC ]
Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-13 17:01:12 UTC ]
At a news conference in the UAE, a new record for the coming 42nd Sharjah International Book Fair in how many markets will be represented. The post Sharjah International Book Fair To Host 108 Markets appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-13 16:17:01 UTC ]
The actor and literacy advocate will host the ceremony after the National Book Foundation dropped its original host, Drew Barrymore. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-13 14:37:31 UTC ]
United Kingdom regulators were effectively the last hurdle stopping Microsoft from purchasing Activision Blizzard, in the biggest merger the video game industry has ever seen. That hurdle was cleared this morning as the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority relented to adjusted terms.... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-10-13 14:10:14 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews John Plotz’s personal reading of a fantasy classic by Ursula K. Le Guin The American author Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) is widely regarded as one of the finest authors of what is broadly termed ‘speculative fiction’.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-10-13 14:00:53 UTC ]
More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investmentsMore than 150 authors and books industry professionals including Naomi Klein, Robert Macfarlane, Emma Dabiri and Geoff Dyer have signed a statement... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-10-13 11:35:41 UTC ]
When I first encountered the work of Henry Dumas, I was very nearly finished with my undergraduate degree in English. I favored American literature in my time studying, and was lucky to have access to syllabi that spanned a more diverse array of writers. The Black writers I would come to know... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-10-13 11:15:00 UTC ]
When I first encountered the work of Henry Dumas, I was very nearly finished with my undergraduate degree in English. I favored American literature in my time studying, and was lucky to have access to syllabi that spanned a more diverse array of writers. The Black writers I would come to know... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-10-13 11:15:00 UTC ]
Bryan Washington’s Family Meal, Mary Gabriel’s Madonna: A Rebel Life, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Roman Stories, andWerner Herzog’s Every Man for Himself and God Against All all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s book review aggregator. * Fiction 1.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-13 11:00:52 UTC ]
Athena Dixon’s The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays opens on New Year’s Eve of 2021, with Dixon alone in her apartment in Philadelphia, thinking about death during a year fraught with pandemic fear. The first pieces explore her fascination with women who died on their own and, because they... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-10-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
These nine medieval science fiction books play with limits of time, space, and history to tell fascinating stories with medieval elements. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-10-13 10:32:00 UTC ]