Activist investor Starboard Value had challenged ownership structure, as Murdoch family controls 41% of company votesLachlan Murdoch faced down a shareholder vote on Wednesday aimed at weakening the Murdoch family’s control over their media empire.The activist investor Starboard Value had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-20 18:57:31 UTC ]
Amazon moves to shore up Audible against Spotify's audiobook success, plus a power ranking of the books of 1994, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-20 16:00:00 UTC ]
The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book to top the charts in the week of its winSamantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital has rocketed to the top of the UK bestseller chart, becoming the first Booker novel to hit... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-20 15:01:38 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Insane Ones’ is a 1962 short story by the British author J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). The story concerns a world in which the various nations have been combined under one totalitarian government known as the United World (UW). Psychiatry has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2024-11-20 15:00:08 UTC ]
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-11-20 14:00:57 UTC ]
Jan Wade will retire as the president and general manager of WISN, Hearst Television's ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the end of this year. Wade joined WISN in 2007. "Leveraging her deep industry experience, Jan has led WISN to a consistent level of excellence... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-11-20 12:01:33 UTC ]
"After the water receded and the clean up began, many writers began to process what they experienced through writing, while others couldn’t write at all." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-20 11:30:00 UTC ]
The Telegraph journalist sent a deeply offensive and inaccurate tweet. Yet she has won the support of a swath of newspapers, an ex-PM – and Elon MuskThe Allison Pearson saga is nothing if not a morality tale about the modern media. Among its many learnings are that calling a group of people of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-20 08:50:32 UTC ]
The Bologna Book Plus program is announcing details of its 2025 audio programming and 'author ambassador' for the trade fair in April. The post Bologna Book Plus 2025 Has Another ‘Audio Forum’ and ‘Ambassador’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-20 06:24:46 UTC ]
Advent, beginning December 1, is a spiritual warm-up to the joyful triumph of Christmas. And publishers are offering titles to brighten and enlighten people during the hectic holiday preparations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Members of the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Publishers Association of the West have voted unanimously to combine into a single entity. The new arrangement will go into effect on July 1, 2025. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association announced that executive director Carry Obry has stepped down from her position, effective immediately. Operations manager Grace Hagen will serve as interim ED while the board searches for a permanent replacement. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
8080 Books plans to "publish original research, ideas and insights at the intersection of science, technology and business." Its inaugural title, 'No Prize for Pessimism' by Microsoft deputy chief technology officer Sam Schillace, was published on November 12. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
DC Comics has launched DC GO, a new collection of vertical-scroll webtoons on its digital subscription service, DC Universe Infinite. The line includes new webtoons featuring DC characters and existing comics reformatted for continuous-scroll reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
The 75th National Book Awards, once again dominated by outspoken writers passionate about their politics, saw a much-predicted win in the fiction category and unsparing criticism of the war in Gaza from the podium. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Tonight, the National Book Foundation celebrates the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards. To mark the milestone, we’ve compiled archival images from the awards’ history and asked former and current leaders of the foundation to recount highlights from their tenures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
The book market in Spain, the market’s publishers association reports, sees turnover growing by 5.1 percent, up 30.1 percent in 10 years. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson FGEE’s Stand at Frankfurt: 56 Publishers and Institutions aving covered the 2024 Guest of Honor Italy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-20 00:04:51 UTC ]
Out of an impressive shortlist, Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has won 2024’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Flanagan’s wide-ranging memoir and history weaves together H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, pre-war nuclear physics, his father’s imprisonment near Hiroshima when the American... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-19 22:15:16 UTC ]
The 11th China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair saw 32 world markets represented among its 497 exhibitors this year. The post Shanghai’s Children’s Book Fair Draws 41,263 Attendees appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-19 20:12:13 UTC ]
Harry Potter fans anticipating the third attraction based on the popular book and movie franchise at Universal Orlando Resort learned that the fictional setting for the ride will be the British Ministry of Magic Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2024-11-19 19:10:32 UTC ]