Editors and licensing acquisition executives from publishing houses including Lerner, Bendon, Candlewick, Random House, and others are among the attendees roaming the show floor at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, which runs June 9-11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hunter S Thompson’s ‘gonzo’ account of a drug-addled road trip has been adapted into a graphic novel by artist Troy LittleHunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – intimately bound up in most readers’ minds with Ralph Steadman’s hallucinatory illustrations – is set to be turned into a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate will publish a new book from musician Nick Cave, including a limited edition priced at £750. The Sick Bag Song will be published by Canongate on 8th April and sold exclusively through the site thesickbagsong.com. Based around Cave's 2014 tour of the US, it was originally written on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Read Media Monkey’s diary from the Monday print pages• To the Paddy Power Political Book awards 2015 at London’s Imax cinema, where the winners included Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson, Andrew Marr revealed his next book (presumably another novel because his first one was, er, so remarkable)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Julian Gough is using Kickstarter to part-fund a writing research trip to Las Vegas. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michigan’s Ypsilanti District Library and Montana’s Lewis & Clark Library were both awarded 2014 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries at the recent American Library Association convention in Las Vegas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Official attendance figures were not available at press time, but ALA officials said the early numbers were on pace to surpass expectations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 20,000 librarians, authors, publishers and vendors from 765 exhibitors are expected to attend the conference over the next four days, and at first glance, the show looks like it will be a strong one. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
"(Super)Hero with 1,000 Faces" in London, U.K.; HeroesCon 2014 in Charlotte, NC; Amazing Las Vegas Comic Convention in Las Vegas, NV; "Stripped" Screening in Santa Rosa, CA Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Looking ahead to the American Libraries Association annual conference in Las Vegas later this month, Andrew Albanese takes stock of efforts by ALA’s Digital Content Working Group to influence the future direction of reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
"Who are the Beatles?" The question ricocheted across Twitter during the 2014 Grammy Awards, where Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited to perform.It's an absurd question, even from those barely old enough to tweet. The Beatles' official Twitter account has more than 2 million followers. Paul... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scrabble is a game that puts on airs. It’s more than a living-room pastime, its partisans argue. Played at the highest level, it’s as complex as chess. Scrabble is so strategically sophisticated, in fact, that—as readers of Slate contributor Stefan Fatsis’ best-selling book Word Freak know—there... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – July 25, 2013 – Global Ad Distribution, the publishing industry’s leading expert in full service home delivery outsource solutions, is proud to announce it has contracted to utilize the services of My ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
As print magazine and book publishers struggle to stay afloat, Not Safe For Work, a print magazine and news startup in Las Vegas, has raised $250,000 in seed funding from Base Ventures, VentureWire has learned. The company offers a monthly print ma ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]