The Friends of Kensal Rise Library look set to be running a community library on the ground floor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
This study of teenagers' social networking habits shows that's it's not technology they are 'addicted' to – it's friendship groupsForget the revelations about the NSA: one group in society has been living with surveillance for years. A group whose every move is tracked, whose freedom of movement... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A strong protest from Kobo convinced Canada’s Competition Tribunal to suspend an agreement announced last month between four multinational publishers and Canada’s Competition Bureau regarding ebook pricing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japanese author Nahoko Uehashi and Brazilian illustrator Roger Mello are the recipients of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, one of the oldest and most prestigious international awards in children’s literature. The announcement came Monday at a press conference at the Bologna Children’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comparable store sales of books fell 10.7% at Hastings Entertainment in the year ended January 31, 2014, compared to 2012. Sales also fell 8.2% in the fourth quarter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ben Katchor in London; "Future Shock" #7 Release Party; Emerald City Comic Con; Paul Hornschemeier, Charles Forsman, and Jesse Lonergan in Somerville. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A breakdown of which publishers share traffic data with their own writers -- and which don't.The post Why top digital publishers are betting on data dashboards for reporters appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ira Silverberg will join Open Road Media April 22 as a strategic adviser for author brands. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ira Silverberg, former literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts in the US, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder has acquired world rights in an “astonishing” debut novel by a journalist and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
USA Today is in the midst of rethinking what it’s all about. Gone is the mindset of being a national newspaper; in is the goal of establishing itself as a national news brand on several platforms -- and yes, that includes print. USA Today president and publisher Larry Kramer explained the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our publishing industry seems to champion just one or two black and Asian authors at a time. Lack of diversity is a real problemMonths back I was trudging through the streets of Dalston when I spotted a copy of Simi Bedford's Yoruba Girl Dancing in a charity shop window. It evoked the same... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sam Gardiner is a football-mad schoolboy, but no one took his opinions seriously. So he created a fake Twitter personality and soon was talking tactics with Premiership players. Tim Lewis meets the spoofer extraordinaireFor five minutes, Sam Gardiner panicked. He had been rumbled: he wasn't... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some of the coverage of L'Wren Scott's death was shameful but it doesn't justify curbs on the pressIdeally, the British press would have behaved a lot better last week, when it reported the premature death of the fashion designer L'Wren Scott. Who was also the girlfriend of Mick Jagger. Critics... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chancellor announces new laws making sure internet downloads are taxed in the country where they are purchasedGeorge Osborne's latest budget could spell an end to 99p song downloads by closing a tax loophole that meant consumers were paying VAT at very low foreign rates on online purchases of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Thavis released The Vatican Diaries' in 2013 and added a section about Pope Francis for the paperback edition. 'It has struck me how the level of enthusiasm around the world for this new Pope is definitely a notch or two above that inside the Vatican,' the author said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
He's no friend of those on the political left, but he knows how to woo kids. He's been named as one of four finalists for book of the year at the Children's and Teen Choice Book AwardsName: Rush Limbaugh.Age: 63.Appearance: Angry face drawn on a pink dish.Occupation: Radio talkshow host,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A self-help guide to toilet etiquette, How to Poo on a Date, wins the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigners and librarians' representatives have told an independent review of the state of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since Janet Geddis launched one of the first bookstore crowdfunding campaigns in March 2010 to raise money to open Avid Bookshop in Athens, Ga., Indiegogo and, to a lesser extent, Kickstarter, have become the go-to places for cash-strapped booksellers trying to open a bookstore, add a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]