Independent publisher Profile Books, including imprints Serpent’s Tail, Viper Books and Souvenir Press, has joined the global Facebook advertising boycott led by by the advocacy group Stop Hate for Profit, withdrawing all Facebook and Instagram advertising with immediate effect. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 21:25:31 UTC ]
Terms of sale first enacted in March to help librarians during the Covid-19 crisis will now run through the end of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
What’s a travel publisher to do while the world stands still? Karen Seiger has some ideas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Industry Notes: The bestseller by Donald Trump's niece is going into its 14th printing. And Penguin Random House India inks deals with US, UK independents. The post Trump Tell-All Breaks S&S Record; PRH India Signs Sourcebooks, Fitzcarraldo appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-07-16 15:20:59 UTC ]
Give the little ones some tools to better understand this unprecedented event with these free children's books about coronavirus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-06-24 10:37:25 UTC ]
Give the little ones some tools to better understand this unprecedented event with these free children's books about coronavirus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-06-24 10:37:25 UTC ]
In less than one week, a campaign by a coalition of civil rights groups aimed at encouraging businesses to pause advertising on Facebook's platforms has already achieved some tangible results. Last Thursday, the digital ad agency 360i, a Dentsu Group subsidiary whose clients include Burberry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-06-23 18:20:35 UTC ]
Boldwood Books has launched an e-book collaboration with John Blake's Ad Lib, starting with a book that reveals all about the stars of hit Netflix series “Tiger King”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 19:13:40 UTC ]
The nonprofit has said its National Emergency Library was a public service to people unable to access libraries during the pandemic, but publishers and authors accused it of theft. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-11 19:56:08 UTC ]
Here are some free ebooks about police violence to read right now, in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests across the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-06-04 18:15:44 UTC ]
Yesterday—as protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, continued across the US—things that President Trump said caused trouble again, and drove the news again. First, Trump laid into governors on a conference call that quickly leaked to the press; he called... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-06-02 12:08:10 UTC ]
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-01 17:13:29 UTC ]
Walker Books is releasing picture book Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Halls and David Litchfield early and for free digitally in partnership with Save the Children’s #SaveWithStories campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-31 21:43:34 UTC ]
Trends reported by Polish publishers show downturns in sales of as much as 70 percent during the spring, and the cancellation of the Warsaw Book Fair has seen the market stage a digital effort, BookTarg. The post Coronavirus Impact: Amid Losses, Poland Stages Its First Digital Book Fair appeared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-27 14:49:28 UTC ]
Erica James is leaving Orion after 25 years to join HQ in a three-book deal, reuniting the author with her former editor Kate Mills. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 03:31:59 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing Group has signed a three-book deal with debut historical writer Ben Creed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 20:25:57 UTC ]
Almost two years after it first started talking about the idea, Facebook finally announced the members of its Oversight Board, the “Supreme Court” that will—theoretically, at least—have the ability to overrule Facebook and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg about whether certain types of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-14 11:45:42 UTC ]
Shelter in place orders throughout the country haven’t just brought the economy to a grinding halt, but frozen civic infrastructure as well. Sure, water still flows from our taps, police and firefighters are still on the job, but your local library l... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2020-05-11 15:00:59 UTC ]
Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing claimed the Publisher E-Book Ranking top spot for the week ending 25th April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-10 19:53:20 UTC ]
The release of a new print edition of the Associated Press Stylebook has always been a highlight of many editors’ May, especially when it is accompanied by a session at the national conference of ACES: The Society for Editing, when AP editors announce the major changes. This year was a little... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-06 16:00:05 UTC ]