From tales of alienation to comforting novels set in bookshops, Japanese authors have written nearly half of this year’s bestselling translated novels in the UK. What’s their secret?• Read an an exclusive Q&A with Haruki MurakamiAnyone who has been in a bookshop in the last few years will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-23 09:00:37 UTC ]
As VML's chief creative officer of Innovation for North America, Walter T. Geer III has a strong pulse on culture. His beginnings go back to the early digital media days, where he is behind the patents of multiple ad units marketers might remember adding to media plans... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-02-26 19:00:07 UTC ]
From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a motherThey say nothing prepares you. Before having my baby, I approached the literature of motherhood as though I were about to sit an exam. If my studies tempered the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-20 11:00:01 UTC ]
Hilary Duff, who dated Aaron Carter in the early 2000s, accused his memoir publisher of 'recklessly pushing a book out to capitalize on this tragedy.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-11-14 00:40:03 UTC ]
Earlier this week, Club 8-bit, one of Ukraine’s largest privately-owned computer museums, was destroyed during the siege of Mariupol. Kotaku spotted news of the event after its owner, Dmitry Cherepanov, took to Facebook to share the fate of Club 8-bit.It has been reported that the Mariupol... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-03-27 15:41:09 UTC ]
IN THE LATE 1990s and early 2000s, millennials in the United States were tweens and teens, and the Harry Potter phenomenon hit hard. There was nothing so comforting in the face of overseas wars and 9/11 as a bit of Blairite neoliberalism from abroad: the British school novel wrapped up with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-09-19 15:00:45 UTC ]
Valérie Lévy-Soussan, founder of Audiolib, has tracked France’s audiobook market from CDs in the early 2000s to streaming and download formats. The post From Frankfurt’s First Audio Summit: Valérie Lévy-Soussan of France’s Audiolib appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-10-31 05:30:42 UTC ]
Welcome back to the 90s. (And, I guess, the early 2000s.) As Variety reports, there is officially a fourth Matrix film in the works, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss back in the saddle as Neo and Trinity. Lana Wachowski will direct; she also wrote the script with novelists Aleksandar Hemon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-20 20:44:00 UTC ]
A shareable online diary was an obvious idea in the early 2000s. What if a college student’s version hadn’t won out? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-05-07 14:00:26 UTC ]
Author David Nicholls is shortlisted for a Bafta for his work on the "Patrick Melrose” series, adapted from the novels by Edward St Aubyn. Nicholls was recognised for his role as a writer in the drama category for the series which is broadcast on Sky Atlantic. Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Industry veteran Frank Cooper is leaving BuzzFeed, where he has been CMO for the past 17 months. In marketing circles, Cooper has been seen as a key conduit between the digital publisher and advertisers because of his brand experience. He quit his post as PepsiCo's chief marketer in June 2015... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles set to follow former rivals Loaded and Nuts in folding as young men turn to mobile phones, social media and free magazinesFHM and Zoo are to close by the end of the year, marking the end of the lads’ mag era that dominated UK magazine publishing in the late 90s and early 2000s.Publisher... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book illustrator Penny Dann has died at the age of 50. She had been suffering from cancer. Dann, who died on Saturday 20th December, illustrated anthologies, early readers, fairytales and poetry collections, and most recently illustrated Polly Parrot Picks a Pirate (Macmillan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sharlto Copley will star as the lead in Powers, Sony PlayStation Network’s first foray into original programming. Copley, of District 9 and recent box office grand slam Maleficent, joins the lineup of stars in the drama adapted from a Marvel comic book series. FX had been trying to develop the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since the demise of Noodle Kidoodle and Zany Brainy in the early 2000s, specialty “book-and-toy” stores have maintained a low profile. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the early 2000s, while working as a producer at ABC’s 20/20, Bill McGowan put together a branding video for a dot-com entrepreneur. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]