Among the organizations receiving funding are Freedom Reads and the New York Public Library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bookstore sales finished just under $9 billion in 2022, 6.2% higher than 2021 and 0.7% above 2019, the last year bookstores had a normal sales pattern before business was disrupted by the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
With a full year of sales from its purchase of Workman Publishing in its pockets, Hachette Book Group saw revenue rise over 2021, but higher costs dropped profits. Results at HBG parent, Lagardère Publishing, followed a similar pattern. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
'Invincible' by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley is the story of Mark Grayson, a seemingly normal high school kid who is really the superhero called Invincible. A 10-page excerpt from 'Invincible Compendium One', hardcover reprint edition celebrating the 20th anniversary of Invincible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
The complaint claims that the company’s negligence exposed employees’ sensitive personal information to hackers in the wake of a widely reported cyberattack in June, 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
The new Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy, has generated a lot of controversy, which is reflected within the gameplay itself. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2023-02-15 04:01:53 UTC ]
Almost a week after being hit with an apparent cyberattack, book retailer Indigo's website is still offline, leaving customers with more questions than answers. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-02-14 18:13:31 UTC ]
The 'research solutions' division of Springer Nature acquires the TooWrite platform, still in development, for research writers. The post Springer Nature Acquires TooWrite for Its Writing Researchers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-02-14 18:04:52 UTC ]
Amid calls for better and more comparable data among publishing markets, Nielsen's BookData makes a timely expansion in Colombia. The post Nielsen BookData Opens BookScan Tracking in Colombia appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-02-14 17:19:31 UTC ]
Months after a federal court ruling blocked the Penguin Random House deal, the publisher Simon & Schuster is once again up for sale. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-14 17:17:54 UTC ]
After a backlash, Spotify paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2023-02-14 16:03:54 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘In the Desert’ is a poem by the American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900), published in his 1895 collection, The Black Riders and Other Lines. Crane is perhaps best-known for his American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, and this is his... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-02-14 15:00:27 UTC ]
Bad Behaviour author Rebecca Starford and the team behind a dramatisation of her memoir reflect on how they recreated her frightening account of her elite boarding schoolGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Rebecca Starford was 14 she spent a year living in the bush as part of an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-14 14:00:16 UTC ]
When publishers Rare Bird and Unnamed Press moved into Highland Park, North Figueroa Bookshop soon followed, putting down roots in a bookstore-starved neighbohood. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-14 14:00:08 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press reports that 400 of its journals offer open-access options to publishers; 66 with fully open access and 340 hybrid. The post Cambridge University Press Aims for Full Open Access by 2025 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-02-14 11:01:59 UTC ]
“The Applicant,” a debut novel by Nazli Koca, features a worldly-wise 20-something Turkish writer who works as a cleaner at a Berlin hostel while struggling to figure out what kind of life she wants to lead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-14 10:00:12 UTC ]
What is it about campus novels that makes us love them so? The campus has inspired many novelists over the years: Michael Chabon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elif Batuman, Nabokov, to name just a few. Readers love these stories, too; “the campus novel” has become its own literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-14 09:53:34 UTC ]
With their expressive type and bawdy illustrations, romance novels turned book covers into potent advertisements. The paperback pulp romance—birthed in the 1930s, but arguably at its height during the murky cultural soup of postwar America—exists at a unique intersection of smut and chastity.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-02-14 09:31:34 UTC ]
Bramble will publish its inaugural title, Jennifer Armentrout's 'Fall of Ruin and Wrath,' in September 2023, with industry veteran Monique Patterson tapped as its v-p and editorial director. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
The decision to suspend the publisher's editorial and educational arms will "consolidate our efforts around our book publishing program," the publisher said in a statement. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]