The Society of Authors' Nicola Solomon and The Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society's Owen Atkinson pen a letter to the PA's Stephen Lotinga on author earnings. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2016 cohort of WriteNow mentees react to Lionel Shriver's ‘When diversity meets uniformity’ Spectator column. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Northern Fiction Alliance proposes an eight-point plan to address the issue of regional diversity in publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Staff at independent bookshop Kenilworth Books have written an open letter to Theresa May lamenting the "deep injustice" of libraries cuts, which they say are threatening the nation’s literacy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an open letter, chief executive of the Society of Authors Nicola Solomon urges publishers to adhere to a seven-step plan to ensure that special sales do not damage authors’ earnings or lead to a cannibalisation of full-price editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and 21 other companies today published an open letter to President Donald Trump, urging him to keep the US in the Paris Agreement to fight climate change for the good of the country's economy. The letter was posted... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Open letter from writers including David Almond, Michael Rosen and Meg Rosoff calls on publisher to ‘reverse its decision to derecognise unions’Children’s authors David Almond, Michael Rosen and Meg Rosoff are among more than 140 writers, booksellers and librarians who have signed a letter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author/illustrator and Swindon Libraries Patron Steve Antony pens an open letter in response to plans to close 10 of the borough's 15 libraries Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
European Union privacy watchdogs have warned WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to stop sharing users' data with parent company Facebook until they investigated whether the transfers comply with EU data protection law. They also want Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to come clean about recent leaks and spying... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2016-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen King is one of hundreds of resident authors in the US to have signed an open letter, addressed to "the American People", expressing their opposition to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling children’s author Philip Ardagh has penned an open letter to Simon Cowell recommending he enlist the services of a librarian in discovering good children’s books after he called them all “boring”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
by Andrew Rutledge, VP Sales, Publisher Technology Group, AppNexus Dear Readers: If you’re a digital publisher or app developer, chances are you’ve been approached by numerous ad tech sales teams in recent months, each extolling the virtues of header bidding. How do I know this? Well, I run... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
At some point back in 2013, I asked a senior publisher if they had a contingency plan for a world with fewer high street bookshops. It was a period when ebook sales were growing ever bigger, taking chunks out of print fiction’s market share; Amazon was revelling in its recent victory over those... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has issued an open letter, addressed to members of the Publishers Association and Independent Publishers Guild, asking publishers to address the issue of author earnings which it says are "falling fast". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
As part of its ongoing effort to raise writers’ income, the Authors Guild is sending an open letter to members of the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK and Commonwealth rights for the Charlie Hebdo editor’s posthumous manifesto, Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia and the True Enemies of Free Expression, have yet to be sold, it has been confirmed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nick Poole, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP), has written an open letter to Birmingham City Council, urging it to keep its libraries open and professionally staffed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and library campaigner Alan Gibbons has issued an open letter to culture minister Ed Vaizey, renewing his call for the politician to engage in a full public debate on the future of the public library service as the “situation is critical”. Gibbons first issued a challenge to Vaizey... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The real-time lyrics feature that Spotify added to its desktop app this past week hasn’t impressed the U.S. karaoke industry. Joseph C Vangieri, the CEO of DigiTrax, has called it “unfair competition for us American ‘Karaoke’ companies.”Lest you think that he has a beef with Spotify, know that... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
With questions still lingering about Sony Pictures's release plans for the Seth Rogen comedy 'The Interview,' after the studio suffered a cyber attack and a terrorist threat issued by the North Korean government, the PEN American Center has published an open letter to Sony CEO Michael Lynton,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]