Does anyone know what Marvel multiverse we’re in? And will anything ever happen in Westeros again? The world’s biggest fantasy franchises are in trouble … but we have ways to make them must-see TV once moreIt’s amazing to think that, not so very long ago, people were actually excited at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-25 12:00:33 UTC ]
Wondery chief brand officer Nicole Blake is giving podcasts the ‘Harry Potter’ treatment. Not so long ago, a book deal and a live tour marked the outer limits of how far a hot podcast could hope to expand its horizons. These days, they’re only the beginning. Especially at Wondery, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-04-19 11:00:00 UTC ]
Local, national, international – the weekday paper was a brilliant one-stop shop. But information, and how we get it, is more atomised nowLocal daily to close.” Ultimately, that is the truth. From today, London’s Evening Standard is indeed ceasing to appear every weekday, as it has for almost... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-19 07:00:10 UTC ]
I don’t remember what made me pull the fat hardcover off my poetry shelf one day not long ago. It was one I had picked up secondhand on the Upper West Side in my grad school days, with a green linen cover, a bit stained: the complete poems of Robert Frost. On the front in […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-05 08:56:14 UTC ]
More Than One Life: A Conversation with Lyn Coffin, by Alaaeldin Mahmoud Interviews [email protected] Mon, 08/19/2024 - 14:53 Lyn Coffin / Photo by Irmaguru / WikimediaDescribed by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-08-19 19:53:51 UTC ]
This was a regular feature of my childhood, though it feels so long ago and far away, conceptually as well as literally, that I nearly forgot it ever happened: I’d go into town to the mall with my mom, and she’d drop me at the doors of the Borders or Barnes and Noble while she […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-19 09:55:59 UTC ]
Long, long ago, a 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was forged by a printing press and sold. For a time, it was lost to man, buried in the piles of donated inventory at the Cancer Research UK superstore in Dundee, Scotland, until manager Adam Carsley spotted the worn copy on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-12 15:27:21 UTC ]
Essay Photo by Miko Guziuk / Unsplash In his newest book, What Is American Literature? (Oxford University Press, 2022), award-winning cultural commentator, translator, and editor Ilan Stavans, the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-02-02 19:59:22 UTC ]
A Pulitzer Prize all but guarantees a book a wider audience. Not so long ago it could also mean a new edition as an audiobook. A look at the winners and finalists of the 2021 Pulitzers, however, shows how thoroughly readers, publishers, and authors have embraced this alternate form of reading.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-22 08:50:43 UTC ]
Here we are in the third year of our September weigh in, and to probably nobody’s surprise, the news is not good. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this feature, we began weighing and measuring some of the top fashion magazines to see how they stack up (literally and figuratively) against... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
It doesn't seem so long ago that a lot of publications would compete for readers by publishing hagiographical stories about the world-changing visionaires at social media companies, including Facebook.Particularly in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we may still think that Facebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ransomware is barely out of the news these days. We had WannaCry wreaking havoc not so long ago, and now it’s the turn of Petya/NotPetya. And those are just two of the better-known threats; there are plenty more forms of ransomware out there which, while maybe not as prevalent, can have just as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It wasn't so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theatre owners at the dawn of the television age. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A young phenom in the making, Brit Bennett, 25, started writing "The Mothers" while still in high school in Oceanside, Calif., finishing it not long ago while a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, and polishing it as recently as two months ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
How do you like 2016 so far? Not that long ago, in a #FutureChat not that far away, we asked you what you considered to have been the high points of 2015 for publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not long ago, whenever a teacher would assign a book report, most students would sprint to Barnes & Noble to grab the CliffsNotes version that could save their weekend. These days, however, they're more likely to head to YouTube to listen to th... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publisher-dominated Interactive Advertising Bureau has long relegated ad-tech companies to second tier, "associate" membership. But that era is now over. Today, the industry group announced a restructuring which will grant ad-tech companies full general membership, allowing them to vote on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It wasn't too long ago that print was considered the center of the wheel from which all other product platforms sprang out of. That's still the case for most traditional publishers, but the newer product platforms are where all the action is now. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thanks to Sherman Alexie's forgetfulness, writers across the U.S. will volunteer at their local bookstore Saturday for the inaugural Indies First day.Not long ago the writer Sherman Alexie missed one of his readings, standing up fans at the Queen Anne Book Company, a store in Seattle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book chain Selexyz, not long ago the dominant force in Dutch high street bookselling, is on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]