Enthusiasts are customising their favourite works and being rewarded with wide social media followingThe videos often begin with every bibliophile’s nightmare: a person ripping the covers off a book.They are not vandals, however; they are bookbinders, taking part in a growing trend for replacing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-05-12 08:00:50 UTC ]
Comics source storytelling inspiration from all manner of media—video game–based graphic novels are a growing trend, but there have also been recent adaptations from such unexpected originals as a suppressed WWII opera and a 1980s cult classic film. These media tie-ins promise a timely remix in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Imprint’s Green Ideas series begins with 20 short books by writers from Rachel Carson to Greta Thunberg it believes are ‘the classics that made a movement’From Greta Thunberg to James Lovelock, publisher Penguin Classics has come up with a “new canon” of the environmental literature, which it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-26 07:00:42 UTC ]
Five prominent figures from the literary world discuss the vexed debates surrounding cultural appropriation, authenticity and the growing trend for sensitivity readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-15 06:28:34 UTC ]
A Great Ormond Street nurse has sold 100,000 books in a few weeks by joining a growing trend of writers to recount heartfelt first-person accounts of their own livesChristie Watson never imagined writing a bestselling memoir about her job as a nurse, much less about her life. “I didn’t think... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s a growing trend in online publishing: Namely, media sites blocking users who choose to use ad-blocking software. In the past few days alone, a British publisher and the Forbes business news site have either implemented or are lookin ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The graphic novel 'The Guardian' represents a growing trend in which soft power and civil society initiatives are increasingly being leveraged to fight extremism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The graphic novel 'The Guardian' represents a growing trend in which soft power and civil society initiatives are increasingly being leveraged to fight extremism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Industry luminaries scry the spins ahead in the helter skelter revolution at the centre of their businessAnna Rafferty, Penguin digital managing director"I predict more digital for publishers in 2014. I'm not being (completely) facetious, I mean more digitalness in all parts of the industry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]