Sales in both the adult and children's/young adult categories fell by double digits in November, due in part to soft hardcover sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to Prince Harry's house: 'Spare' is the #1 book in the country. Plus Jamie Oliver helps home cooks with the dishes, and a pair of second-in-a-series books enjoy better first weeks than their predecessors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Mail accuses Nine and ABC of ‘radio silence’ over fracas. Plus: conservative media attacks Jacinda ArdernThe Daily Mail called it “the biggest story in Australia on Thursday” and the News Corp tabloids agreed, serving up salacious front pages that editors of a scandal sheet can be proud of. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-01-20 00:58:39 UTC ]
On an isolated island in Maine, a woman is pushed to the brink to save her family, in Meghan Gilliss’ debut novel “Lungfish.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-01-19 22:19:20 UTC ]
Best-selling author Ken Follett's new book is out this September, concluding a series that chronicles 1,000 years of Western civilization. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-01-19 17:19:27 UTC ]
Emma Straub—novelist, bookstore-owner, children’s book author, and all-round nice person—was uninvited from reading at Texas elementary schools because of her use of “foul language” on social media. In an email to parents, administrators from the Katy Independent School District (in the Houston... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-19 15:33:15 UTC ]
“I never thought I’d be one of those people,” she said. T Kira Madden and I were sitting in the private room of a fancy strip-mall restaurant in Albany, New York, and I was eating a very expensive salad. Earlier that afternoon, we had given a reading at a local bookstore with T Kira’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-01-19 12:05:00 UTC ]
Memoirist and public health executive Michelle Bowdler, author of Is Rape a Crime? and novelist and family counselor Lynne Reeves Griffin, author of Dark Rivers to Cross, a novel about relationship violence, talk about writing trauma narratives with the power to bring pain deemed undiscussable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-19 09:52:46 UTC ]
Visnick will helm U.S. operations and drive growth for the 25-year-old graphic novel and manga brand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
'Spare,' the memoir by Prince Harry, sold nearly 630,000 print copies in its first week on sale at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Even with that huge debut, total sales rose only 1.4% last week over the week ended January 15, 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
We take a look at the new television show 'Shape Island', based on the Shapes trilogy of picture books by frequent collaborators Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Twitter’s ad business is reeling, with its daily revenue reportedly falling by 40 percent from a year ago. According to The Information, over 500 of the company’s top advertisers have paused spending on the platform since Elon Musk’s October takeover. Despite that, Twitter is still attracting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-01-18 18:54:25 UTC ]
Josh Riedel's debut novel 'Please Report Your Bug Here' tries to be both a sendup of circa-2010 Silicon Valley and a futuristic sci-fi cautionary tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-18 14:30:20 UTC ]
Netflix and Nielsen are marching closer toward measurement solutions for the streaming service's new ad-supported tier. Top line Today, the two companies announced they're expanding their partnership with a multiyear agreement allowing Nielsen to provide linear and streaming audience data... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-01-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
If you are a debut author or a literary fiction and nonfiction stan, you’ve likely heard of Debutiful. Adam Vitcavage launched the podcast and website dedicated to highlighting the work of debut authors in January 2019. It has since become a beacon in the literary community, helping over 100,000... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-01-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
There’s nothing more exciting to me than a laptop with unique features or an out-of-the-box design. While a slew of brand spanking new laptops were announced at CES this year, there were some that really stood out from the rest. From RGB keyboards on Chromebooks to portable laptops so thin... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-01-18 11:45:00 UTC ]
Libraries have existed for 5,000 years, but what does their future look like in an ever-changing world. One writer explores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-01-18 11:37:00 UTC ]
From encouraging some outdoors reading to a look at beautiful diverse book spines, try your hand at these new book puzzles. - Kelly Jensen Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-01-18 11:35:00 UTC ]
John Hendrickson's memoir “Life on Delay” recounts his experience with this poorly understood neurological disorder, tracing an arc from frustration and isolation to acceptance and community. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-01-18 10:00:22 UTC ]
I kind of love acknowledgement pages. When I was trying to find an agent for my first novel, I would go to the local Borders (it was a lifetime ago) open to them often to discover which agents and editors novelists worked with, which MFA programs they’d attended, who their early readers were. My... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-18 09:56:43 UTC ]