For the first time on record, picture books outsold fiction for young readers through the TCM, after clawing back a huge deficit. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 08:33:40 UTC ]
With the Boris Johnson administration seemingly on the brink, can we be thankful for one last snafu before this ungainly prime minister exits right? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 07:36:15 UTC ]
If you chart the shift in the BookScan era of the publishing into Children’s & Young Adult Non-Fiction (CYANF), you see it evolving from, broadly, a more schools-book focused sector to one in which the vast bulk of the revenue is derived from trade titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 07:28:02 UTC ]
The latest book by Benjamin Zephaniah follows a Trinidadian woman who boarded the Windrush to pursue her singing dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 07:13:29 UTC ]
In a new book, a cold-case team identifies a Jewish man as the likely culprit, stirring questions about culpability in extreme circumstances. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 19:32:39 UTC ]
A bunch of new tech sales cropped up at the start of the week for things like robot vacuums, game controllers and more, and many of them are still around today. A trio of iRobot devices remain discounted, with the most affordable of the bunch coming in at $179. Some of Amazon's Fire tablets are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-01-21 16:45:26 UTC ]
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award longlists in Literature, Translation, 'Development of Nations,' and Literary and Art Criticism are here. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Four 2022 Category Longlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-21 14:40:26 UTC ]
Butler earned fame and respect fighting America's imperialist wars -- and came to regret his role, Jonathan M. Katz writes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 13:23:44 UTC ]
Zora Neale Hurston did not mince words about race and gender. Now we can read them, unfiltered. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 13:00:55 UTC ]
Robert Gottlieb's portrait of the eccentric actress explores her conflicting needs for companionship and privacy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 13:00:44 UTC ]
Lea Ypi recalls her childhood in Albania and the nation's swift, disorienting shift away from communism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 13:00:31 UTC ]
Christopher Leonard focuses on Thomas Hoenig, onetime president of the Kansas City Fed, to explore the policy implications. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 13:00:09 UTC ]
In "Small World," short chapters and sheer eventfulness keep the story chugging along. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-21 12:00:01 UTC ]
From reads about lexicographers and bookshop employees to librarians, these books about books, including The Sentence, are for serious bibliophiles only. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-01-21 11:36:00 UTC ]
Lauren Savage and Diane Savage, her mother-in-law, opened The Reading Bug in San Carlos, Calif., a community south of San Francisco and north of Palo Alto, in 2008. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
A government report sheds light on the status of bricks-and-mortar stores in the late 2010s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
One hundred years ago, the establishment of the John Newbery Medal was announced in 'PW.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press buys a new novel from Celeste Ng, William Barr sells a memoir to Morrow, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
The FSG Poetry Anthology, which pubbed in November, looks back at the press’s formidable poetry list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association are moving their fall conference, New Voices New Rooms, to summer and have scheduled it for the week of August 8. In addition, they are launching a spring book event scheduled for May 17 and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-21 05:00:00 UTC ]