Simon & Schuster is introducing a new "multi-platform education and resources program" during this year's Banned Books Week, as part of an effort to expand the publisher's response to the book bans and challenges. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
What started as a hastily scrawled notebook of ideas on creator Katie Cook’s way back from a Chicago comics convention has turned into an immensely popular webtoon—and, soon, a graphic novel series from Ten Speed Graphic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of Banned Books Week, the ALA reported 695 attempts to censor library materials between January 1 and August 31, 2023, and 1,915 unique titles challenged—a 20% jump over last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
A 12-page excerpt of the new graphic adaptation of historian C.L.R. James’s 1934 play about the Haitian Revolution by Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
This month, Penguin released the three latest titles in its Penguin Classics Marvel Collection. We spoke with the series editor, Ben Saunders, and two authors who wrote forewords to the books, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell, about the importance of enshrining comics in the literary canon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Peace Is What Our Hearts Seek: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis’s Love Letters to Ukraine, by Candice Louisa Daquin Book Reviews [email protected] Tue, 09/19/2023 - 16:07 In Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava (River Paw Press, 2023), Kalpna Singh-Chitnis... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-09-19 21:07:47 UTC ]
The awards ceremony for the German Book Prize is set for Frankfurt on October 16 before the start of Frankfurter Buchmesse. The post The German Book Prize Announces Its 2023 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-09-19 18:55:02 UTC ]
“What are we willing to fight for? What do we deserve, morally speaking? What is our place, our relationship with the universe, with nature?”During a preview of The Talos Principle 2 in August, series writer Jonas Kyratzes posed 19 questions about the essence of humanity in just 90 seconds.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-09-19 16:00:14 UTC ]
TikTok is rolling out a toolset that lets users label posts that have been created or enhanced by artificial intelligence. This move comes after the social media giant added a number of filters for video uploads that made heavy use of AI, and an image generator to help create unique backgrounds.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-09-19 15:45:36 UTC ]
Amazon has rolled out a new Kindle Scribe sale for Prime members. Each configuration of the 10.2-inch ereader is up to 22 percent off, which brings the base version with 16GB of storage and Amazon's "Basic Pen" stylus down to $265. That's $75 off the device's usual price and only $10 more than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-09-19 15:15:36 UTC ]
For her latest book club pick, Oprah Winfrey broke the news to author Nathan Hill in modern style Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-09-19 12:32:06 UTC ]
Kate Roberts considers the latest wave of chronic illness memoirs, which entwine the personal with the sociopolitical. | Lit Hub Memoir It’s a banger week for new books: Here are 28 out today. | The Hub 38 literary movies and TV shows to watch this fall (brought to you by writers who deserve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-19 10:30:38 UTC ]
Mystery and manga go together like pumpkin spice and warm boba tea (you can thank me later). Here are some new mystery manga you can't miss. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-09-19 10:30:00 UTC ]
The investor behind the Simon & Schuster deal explains what he’s really up to. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2023-09-19 09:50:00 UTC ]
Illustration by Krishna Bala Shenoi. Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. It’s a podcast where people sound like people. New episodes air every Sunday, distributed by Pushkin Industries. * To celebrate the release of her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-19 08:35:25 UTC ]
Praising a strategy for letting PRH publishers work 'more creatively and entrepreneurially,' Bertelsmann's Thomas Rabe announces Nihar Malaviya the company's permanent worldwide CEO. The post Nihar Malaviya Made Permanent PRH CEO by Bertelsmann appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-09-19 05:41:40 UTC ]
After nearly three weeks of waiting, federal judge Alan D. Albright delivered a 59-page written opinion holding that the controversial Texas law "misses the mark" by imposing a web of "unconstitutionally vague" requirements. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Book sales fell 10.9% in July at the 1,233 publishers that supply data to AAP’s StatShot program. Sales of adult books dropped 4.6%, and children's/young adult book sales declined 10.7%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Reisman has returned as CEO of Indigo Books & Music, not long after CEO Peter Ruis resigned and Reisman officially retired. Newly elected board member Markus Dohle has taken the role of company chair. The company is also preparing to open a new concept store in Toronto. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Kara Welsh, president of PRH’s Ballantine Group—home of the Ballantine Bantam Dell imprints—announced a number of editorial promotions within the group. Those include the promotion of Kara Cesare to v-p and editor-in-chief of BBD. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-19 04:00:00 UTC ]