The beleaguered social network has poached editors from Vice magazine, Billboard and RollingStone in the hopes of reinventing itself as an editorial outlet. FastCo.Labs spoke to its VP of creative and content to see if the plan can actually work. With companies from Apple to Spotify jostling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten-year-old Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, had its editorial approach to publishing contemporary literature and creative nonfiction affirmed last month when the National Endowment of the Arts chose three of its authors to receive 2013 Literature Fellowships. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The trick to making the Random House/Penguin Group merger work will be to create a publisher that can take advantage of the resources and economies of scale a company with revenue of $4 billion brings and combine that with an editorial approach that emphasizes close cooperation with authors,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]