A newly formed investor group led by David Steinberger has acquired Open Road Integrated Media for a purchase price reported to be between $60 million and $80 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a number of concerns, many of the more than three dozen indies contacted by PW posted strong Thanksgiving weekend sales increases compared with 2019 and 2020, and even booksellers whose stores saw declines said they were cautiously optimistic about the weeks ahead. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Facing difficult comparisons to last year when Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' was piling up huge sales numbers, unit sales still increased 9.7% last week over 2020 as adult fiction sales jumped 35.3%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster said it was working with the author on how to revise her 1999 book "Lucky" after Anthony Broadwater was cleared of the assault it describes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2021-12-01 22:20:50 UTC ]
Nikole Hannah-Jones joined Times executive editor Kevin Merida for an insightful L.A. Times Book Club conversation about her book "The 1619 Project." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-01 19:58:42 UTC ]
News for Frankenstein fans, or just fans of the monster: according to Mansion Global, a two-bedroom Bloomsbury apartment at the address of Mary Shelley’s former home is on the market for $1.36 million. If you saved $1.17 million from not buying the first edition of Frankenstein that went up for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-01 18:01:36 UTC ]
Scottish crime writers including Val McDermid, Abir Mukherjee and Louise Welsh are among a new cohort of tutors featuring on Inverness writing centre Moniack Mhor's 2022 programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 15:01:56 UTC ]
The translation of Deceit by ‘groundbreaking’ author Yuri Felsen, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to come out next MayThe debut novel by Yuri Felsen, an author once regarded as the “Russian Proust” whose work has been forgotten since he died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to be published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-01 14:12:48 UTC ]
A posthumously published story collection by the best-selling author of “The Shadow of the Wind” blends the familiar with a new perspective. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-01 13:00:00 UTC ]
Critic Michael Dirda picks illustrated books that won’t just sit on your coffee table. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-01 13:00:00 UTC ]
Lucky, Alice Sebold's memoir of her rape as a college student, is being pulled from shelves following the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-01 12:52:26 UTC ]
The footballer and campaigner is writing story with Alex Falase-Koya, drawing on his own memories of friendships made before starting the school day Fresh from receiving an MBE for his campaigning to lift children out of poverty, Marcus Rashford is now warming up for a new challenge: the England... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-01 12:04:57 UTC ]
Lisa Highton is stepping down from her role as publisher at John Murray Press imprint Two Roads. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 12:04:50 UTC ]
Marc Myers’s oral history looks at the explosion of rock concerts over four decades. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
If you've got a manga reader on your holiday list, here are some fun manga-themed gifts they're sure to love.- Erika Hardison Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-01 11:40:00 UTC ]
Literary magazines depend on volunteer readers to sort through the hundreds of submissions they get. Here's how you can become one! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-01 11:32:00 UTC ]
Scribner has responded to the news that Anthony Broadwater has been cleared of the crime at the centre of Lucky by ceasing to distribute the bookAlice Sebold’s publisher Scribner is pulling her 1999 memoir Lucky from shelves after a man was cleared of the rape at the heart of it.Anthony... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-01 10:52:48 UTC ]
Ed Lake is moving to Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the newly created role of publishing director for non-fiction after five years at Profile. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 10:49:33 UTC ]
Journalist Philip Clark and novelist and essayist Javier Montes have been named as the winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, at a reception at the British Library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 10:40:51 UTC ]
As the Malaysian Book Council promotes international rights availabilities for books from its market, one publisher there talks about his company's pandemic experience. (Sponsored) The post ‘Stories From the Malaysian Archipelago’—And Kuala Lumpur’s Book Business appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-12-01 10:22:31 UTC ]