Actor Tom Cruise settles a libel legal action with a German publisher which claimed in US magazines that he had "abandoned" his daughter Suri. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A sinking ship of a drama that managed to be neither monstrous nor deep"Thar she blows!" said one of the crew as a whale came to the surface. The cetacean wasn't the only thing blowing heavily in The Whale (BBC1), a 90-minute dramatisation of the sinking of the Essex, a Nantucket whaler, by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plus what the Google Books settlement enables, Python v R, what Nokia should do next, and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamDIY toilet paper tube organizer is ugly, but it's a helluva cable organizer >> LifehackerIf you are a tech head, you've... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta is bringing forward to publication of Masha Gessen's Words Will Break Cement: The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent booksellers have complained that they are losing crucial Christmas sales with some... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A publisher continues to hand-bind and hand-sew books that also function as works of art. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her year-end letter to employees, Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy said that the publisher is on track to “deliver record profits, a healthy gain in revenues, and our best-ever margins.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
German booksellers are facing a nail-biting finish to the holiday season. With end November sales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today is the last regularly-scheduled issue of PW Daily for 2013. We will, of course, send special issues if events warrant. Readers can check the publishersweekly.com Web site for news items and industry updates. We will be back on our regular daily schedule January 2. Happy holidays to all. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Morgan James Publishing partners with CML Entertainment to launch a new series imprint with nine titles planned for fall 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Even as China's leaders promise a more liberal future for the country, they are suppressing those who would tell the truthThe year began with journalists from China's Southern Weekly striking because their paper had spiked a leader calling for constitutional protections for individual liberty at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lord Patten criticised by MPs for blocking publication of documents relating to corporation's failed £100m IT projectMPs have accused the BBC Trust chairman, Lord Patten, of "obstruction and secrecy" for stopping the corporation publishing key documents about a failed £100m IT project.Patten... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online hysteria about Facebook reading text that is deleted before it is posted might not be entirely unfoundedAs Mark Twain observed: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." And that was a long time before the web. Which brings us to a meme that was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling says she is working on a play about Harry's early life, expected to hit British theaters within the next two years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
On mobile phones, health, and fitness are rapidly becoming big business. The latest idea? A concept from researchers at Cornell which demonstrates how your phone could be used to check your cholesterol levels, no visit to the lab required. In a paper published in the medical technology journal... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newsroom managers are fighting a tough battle between the tidal wave of consumer demands for instant news and financial restrictions cutting production budgets to the bone. Digital or print, magazines are struggling to fill the gap. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Rainbow Loom—a loom for weaving jewelry and other objects out of colorful rubber bands that has become one of the hottest toys this holiday season—has been a boon to children’s publishers that got ahead of the trend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Salaries for editorial directors and editors-in-chief were mixed for those in b-to-b, consumer and association publishing. Business and consumer editors each saw their salaries dip for the third time in four years, while association ED/EICs got their fifth pay raise in a row. Associations remain... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Education technology startup Knewton, which makes tools that adapt to each student's learning style, has raised $51 million led by Atomico, along with GSV Capital and existing investors Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, FirstMark Capital and Founders Fund. This... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
On behalf of the other 99.9% of books published this year that didn't make the consensus top ten, tell us what were your favorite sleeper best books of 2013? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]