Just as Engadget was hitting publish on its first posts, I was putting a freshly minted English degree to use working at an indie bookshop in Los Angeles. In seemingly unrelated news, Amazon had just reported its first profitable year after switching from selling books to selling “everything”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-03-08 14:15:57 UTC ]
Gather ’round, children, and let me tell you a story about the old bugaboo we used to call DRM. Digital Rights Management was the beast under every gamer’s bed in the mid-2000s, an invisible bit of software baked into game discs that dictated and tracked player behavior under the guise of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-03-04 16:30:21 UTC ]
It’s 1995, and I’m trying to watch a video on the internet. I entered the longest, most complex URL I’d ever seen into AOL’s web browser to view a trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s long-awaited film adaptation of Mortal Kombat. I found it in an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, tucked away in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-03-01 17:00:14 UTC ]
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Bloomsbury Academic's line of books about albums, 33 1/3, PW talked to the Publisher at Bloomsbury who oversees the series, Leah Babb-Rosenfeld, about the book line's origins, what makes it unique, and what the lasting mark of these books will be. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Opus & Olives, a gala fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, is celebrating its 20th anniversary on October 8. The annual event is one of the most successful public library fundraisers in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Iranian-French author of 'Persepolis,' which celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new edition, discusses her shift from comics to film, the banning of books in America, and her pride in Iran's young revolutionaries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
The chain’s founder is celebrating its 20th anniversary – but for a while it, and the industry as a whole, was on the brinkTim Richards is celebrating a milestone he feared he might not see – the 20th anniversary of the creation of Vue, Europe’s largest privately owned cinema chain. That... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-16 13:00:08 UTC ]
'Invincible' by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley is the story of Mark Grayson, a seemingly normal high school kid who is really the superhero called Invincible. A 10-page excerpt from 'Invincible Compendium One', hardcover reprint edition celebrating the 20th anniversary of Invincible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Celebrate the The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art's 20th anniversary with a whole summer of Eric Carle goodness! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-20 10:39:00 UTC ]
The installation marks the 20th anniversary of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2021-10-07 15:35:52 UTC ]
Novelists Nadia Hashimi and Helen Benedict join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the mistakes American writers and culture made in depicting the United States’ wars Iraq and Afghanistan. In the wake of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and President Biden’s decision to pull US... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-23 08:49:21 UTC ]
Tony Bruce, senior publisher at Routledge, talks to us about the plans for Routledge Classics' 20th anniversary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-01 07:56:34 UTC ]
Flipped eye publishing is marking its 20th anniversary this year with a digital bookshop tour, a nationwide hunt for a young editor and a 2021 list including work from Warsan Shire and José Eduardo Agualusa. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-19 07:31:59 UTC ]
Octopus imprint Hamlyn has bagged a book of anecdotes, laugh-out-loud moments and uplifting life lessons from ITV panel show “Loose Women”, marking its 20th anniversary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-20 04:41:45 UTC ]
As she celebrates a series of career milestones—which coincide with the 20th anniversary of her publisher, Dafina Books—the author starts a new chapter by revisiting classic characters in the long-awaited sequel to her first novel, My Brother’s Keeper. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Headline imprint Tinder Press will publish a new novel by Maggie O'Farrell in April 2020, inspired by William Shakespeare's son, as the author celebrates her 20-year career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jamie Oliver’s first cookbook celebrates its 20th anniversary this year: Michael Joseph is reissuing The Naked Chef along with a raft of the celebrity chef’s other works to mark the occasion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne is marking the 20th anniversary of the ‘That’s Not My…’ baby books with partnerships with organisations such as the National Literacy Trust and The Creation Station. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A tour of former Children’s Laureates and a celebratory anthology are just some of the plans being put together to mark next year’s 20th anniversary of the Waterstones Children’s Laureate role. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven models of the spiders from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will be unveiled across the UK at the end of the month to mark the novel’s 20th anniversary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]