July's upcoming book has received many positive reviews, with critics calling it 'compelling' and 'visionary,' though some felt that parts of the story were contrived and that some sections tried too hard to shock the reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cartoonists around the world respond to the attack on 'Charlie Hebdo,' while the Angouleme Festival plans a tribute to the cartoonists and others murdered at the satirical magazine on January 7. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Corporation says revision began before Paris attack, but David Dimbleby still quotes out-of-date guidelines on Question TimeThe BBC is revising its own rules banning the representation of the prophet Muhammad “in any shape or form”, it has emerged after a Charlie Hebdo cover featured on BBC1’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The End of Power' – a respected, though modestly-selling, nonfiction book – has now been launched to a global audience thanks to Mark Zuckerberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pluto Press has acquired a study of curation by author and critic David Balzer, titled Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else. Editor David Shulman bought World English rights, excluding North America, from Coach House Press in Canada. Curationism is described as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-publishing solutions provider Semantico has made two changes to its senior management team, with co-founder Richard Padley moving up into the role of chairman and c.e.o., and Rob Virkar-Yates becoming c.o.o. In his new role, Padley will establish an innovation centre within Semantico, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scotland's Falkirk council is consulting on cuts to its school library service (SLS) which managers say would wipe out the service. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was much easier to characterize the bestseller terrain in the two years before 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indies could be headed into another good year, with a number of new stores opening, including Walls of Books in Zanesville, Ohio, and Mustard Seed in Bath, Maine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Liu Ruilin discusses her innovative Beijing-based publishing house Imaginist Press and shares her views on design, culture and China's publishing future. The post Liu Ruilin on Imaginist Press and China’s Publishing Future appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Frankfurt Book Fair is taking St.Gallen International Publishing Management Course, a 10-day executive training program, to Singapore in August. The post Frankfurt Book Fair Takes Publishing Course to Singapore appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended January 4, 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: the true story of murder in a 19th-century convent, plus "The Shining" meets "The Abyss." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Publishers Association (PA) has appointed Brean Horne as policy and communications executive. Horne joins the PA following an internship at the BBC. She studied law at Sussex University, and comes to the PA via Creative Access, which provides opportunities for paid internships in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cornerstone's William Heinemann imprint has confirmed that its plan to publish Michel Houellebecq's new novel Submission this autumn is "unaltered". The controversial novel, newly released in France by Flammarion, imagines a future France with a Muslim president, and has come into sharpened... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ad featuring photograph of young woman in lingerie posed on a bed, headlined ‘Interns wanted’, since removed News Corp Australia’s most popular magazine insert has advertised for fashion interns by using a photo of a young woman dressed in underwear on all fours on a bed.Murdoch's Sunday Style... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Guild drops Hathi-Trust Case and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arab publishers have joined those from France and from the international publishing community in voicing condemnation of today's terror attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which saw 12 people lose their lives with a further 11 wounded. Author Salman Rushdie... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Officials in Birmingham are hoping that a deal with the British Library could help protect the flagship Library of Birmingham from cuts. According to a report in the Birmingham Post, the council is initiating talks which could see the Library of Birmingham become a regional centre for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 1bn views a day, the social network says that its users are now seeing nearly four times more videos in their news feeds than a year agoYouTube may be the king of online video with more than one billion monthly viewers, but Facebook is aiming to knock Google’s service off its perch in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]