The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union organized a rally outside the Barnes & Noble flagship store in New York City’s Union Square on November 14 in an effort to push the company into resolving disagreement on wages and reaching a contract with workers by the end of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
An inside look at the publication process for the scholar and activist’s examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
The news of the reopened search comes on the one-year anniversary of Leslie Burger taking the helm as interim executive director, on November 15, 2023, and more than a year after executive director Tracie D. Hall abruptly resigned from her position on October 6, 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
President-elect Donald J. Trump is threatening to sue Penguin Random House and the ‘New York Times’ for $10 billion over allegedly “false and defamatory statements,” according to a letter reviewed by the ‘Columbia Journalism Review.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Shanghai Children's Book Fair expects 45,000 visitors and opens its professional programming organized in cooperation with the Bologna Book Fair. The post Opening Day Programs at Shanghai’s Children’s Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-14 22:18:38 UTC ]
November is in full swing, which means Black Friday is right around the corner. But the days in which you had to wait for Black Friday proper to get good deals have long been behind us. The holiday shopping season is effectively the entire month of November now, with early Black Friday deals... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-11-14 17:34:34 UTC ]
Death on a doomed ship, historical fiction from the Hundred Years' War, our relationship with the natural world, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-14 16:56:44 UTC ]
As the Scholz coalition spirals toward a new parliamentary election, book business leaders lay out what they need. The post Germany’s Publishers: ‘Relieve the Burden on Culture’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-14 15:07:40 UTC ]
We’re big Lego fans here at Engadget, so it’s not difficult for us to understand why the building block sets are some of the first items to sell out during the holiday shopping season. Kids and adults alike seek out Lego sets all year round, and they make particularly good gifts. Whether you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-11-14 15:00:13 UTC ]
McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, focuses on an egocentric, self-destructive white male novelist, played by Robert Downey, Jr. The fictional Jacob McNeal—think Mailer or Roth at their worst—wins the Nobel Prize early in the play, but he’s guarding a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2024-11-14 13:00:00 UTC ]
Faulty devices have thrown a wrench in the company’s trade-in program for its color ebook reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-11-14 12:15:00 UTC ]
FX's adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's best-selling book focuses on the Price sisters and raises questions about how a bitterly divided country can move on from the past. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-11-14 11:00:06 UTC ]
The Duolingo owl is single-wingedly rewriting the modern mascot playbook and unlocking new business along the way. On a Friday morning in mid-October, crowds of people—many in elaborate costumes—poured into the Jacob Javits convention center on Manhattan’s far west side. They were attending day... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-11-14 11:00:00 UTC ]
In a competitive six-house auction, Putnam has acquired 'The Escape Game', a YA mystery thriller co-authored by Lunar Chronicles author Marissa Meyer and Lintang series author Tamara Moss; publication is scheduled for April 2026. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
North America, especially U.S. airport stores, is becoming a major growth engine for the U.K.-based bookstore chain. Sales in North America rose 9% in fiscal 2024, to £401 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Following a successful slate of U.K. releases and U.S imports, author Cynthia Murphy will pen new YA thrillers under a three-book deal with Delacorte Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Minnesota's first Black woman–owned indie bookstore has changed hands five months after owner Dionne Sims announced that she intended to sell. The new owner—a self-described artist, academic, and an activist—will identify herself at an open house event at the store next week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
From Classroom to Conference: Insights from the American Literary Translators Association Meeting in Milwaukee, by Daria Shchukina From the Road [email protected] Wed, 11/13/2024 - 13:36 Photo by Daria ShchukinaUniversity of Oklahoma student Daria... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-11-13 19:36:48 UTC ]
EveryLibrary, a non-profit dedicated to supporting public and school libraries across the country via local grassroots organizing, has been tracking anti-library legislation since 2012. Between the onslaught of book bans and censorship petitions, they’ve naturally had a busy few years. But last... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-13 17:52:28 UTC ]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is his pick to run the Department of Defense. As a result of this nomination, Hegseth will depart his Fox News role immediately. "Pete Hegseth has been an exceptional host... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-11-13 17:52:24 UTC ]