The ISBN services company has rejoined the ISNI International Agency, which provides tools meant to ensure accurate attribution for authors’ and other creatives’ works across the supply chain. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
Citing public funding difficulties and marketplace challenges, the British Columbia independent publisher is winding down operations at its Vancouver office. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
An executive order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been halted for now, but the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies are preparing for potential cuts to their funding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
This artfully fictionalized graphic history is based on the true story of a groundbreaking educator and a courageous class of Black girls 30 years before the Civil War. A ten-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
The imprint is the fruit of a partnership with the Simons Foundation, where it is an editorially independent subsidiary led by publisher Thomas Lin, founding editor of Pulitzer Prize–winning ‘Quanta Magazine.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
At 84, Edmund White is ready to kiss (to put it mildly) and tell ... well, everything. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2025-01-28 16:56:52 UTC ]
The inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature honors Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Arab-African cultural roots. The post Sharjah’s New African Literature Festival Honors Wole Soyinka appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-01-28 16:29:55 UTC ]
Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects their lives, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. The researchers’ analysis (which used... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 16:23:23 UTC ]
Since it launched in January 2020, Bookshop.org has been a popular place for readers to buy books while supporting local ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-28 15:52:54 UTC ]
As of this morning, you can now easily buy ebooks from your local indie bookstore. Thanks to Bookshop.org, the reigning David to Am*zon’s Goliath. As Wired reports, a new platform on the site will now sell ebooks directly to customers. Bookshop users can buy and read titles via a handy-dandy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 14:35:29 UTC ]
Keep the convo going with the most book club-friendly books of our 2025 Most Anticipated list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-28 14:00:00 UTC ]
The traveling exhibition of illustration, the 'Grand Tour, makes its last stop before Bologna 2025 at the comics fair in France. The post Bologna Book Fair’s ‘Grand Tour’ heads to Angoulême appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-01-28 12:48:35 UTC ]
The bookseller is applying its sales model—where online purchases support indie bookstores—to digital books. It has also released a mobile app for shopping and reading ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2025-01-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
The challenger brand to Amazon’s hegemony has big plans to build further, starting with a new e-book initiative. Andy Hunter decided something needed to be done about the endless rise of Amazon in 2018—the year that the e-commerce giant surpassed 50% of book sales in the U.S. market. “I was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-01-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
By the time I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings hit shelves in the first days of 1970, buzz about the memoir had been building for some time. Newspaper stories about its author, Maya Angelou—a well-known dancer, singer, and political activist—had been teasing the book for years; both Ebony and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-28 09:57:54 UTC ]
Speculation over Google’s antitrust travails mounts as the great and the good of digital media converge to discuss conspiracy theories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2025-01-28 05:01:00 UTC ]
Looking to capitalize on the books-as-objects trend, Sourcebooks has formed a bespoke publishing operations team and appointed Carolyn Telesca to head the new unit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Erin Entrada Kelly was already cozy in bed, in her jammies, on Sunday night, all set to do some writing, when the phone rang. "I thought, 'There’s no way this is going to be 'the call,' but I answered it, and sure enough, it was the committee”; she had won the Newbery Medal for her middle grade... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Digital borrowing of e-books, audiobooks, and digital magazines rose to more than 739 million checkouts at the libraries and schools who use OverDrive's Libby and Sora apps. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Woll worked at Wiley, Storey Communications, and Rodale before forming Cross River Publishing Consultants in 1993. His book 'Publishing for Profit' went through five editions and was translated into 10 languages. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-28 05:00:00 UTC ]