The threat of isolation from Europe’s workplace regulations, visa issues among EU-born staffers, and a decrease in the number of European graduate students could affect UK academic publishing in the wake of Brexit, experts warned at Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On this day in 1935, the highly acclaimed poet Mary Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. Oliver, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and later the National Book Award for Poetry in 1992, was by all accounts a private person who sought solace in the natural world. Throughout the course of her... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-10 15:24:16 UTC ]
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The Lit in Colour Pioneers programme, which supports UK schools in diversifying their English Literature curriculum, will be working with 119 cohorts from across the country this year, reaching almost 12,000 students. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-06 10:31:02 UTC ]
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Amazon is planning a global recruitment drive to hire 55,000 staff, including 2,500 in the UK, to accommodate the demand for online retail and digital advertising. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 19:48:27 UTC ]
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They deal with homework, teenage romance — and often, larger burdens, Elly Fishman writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson’s underlying revenue increased by 17% in the first half of 2021, reflecting a “strong rebound” from last year, and “encouraging momentum in the underlying business”. The company has also announced a new college app launching in the US today, called Pearson+. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-30 05:24:08 UTC ]
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Newly recruited Virago publishing director Anna Kelly has made her first acquisition for the imprint with Harvard student Becca Rothfeld’s debut essay collection All Things Are Too Small. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 22:35:16 UTC ]
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Staff at the academic publisher Springer Nature are being given an extra day of holiday on 2nd July to thank them for their "extraordinary efforts" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:57:04 UTC ]
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Research commissioned by Penguin Random House has revealed only 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-28 22:57:04 UTC ]
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News and Events Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent with World Literature Today’s commitment to... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-05-20 16:07:11 UTC ]
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BIPOC employees represented 47.8% of new hires by the Hachette Book Group in 2020, and the percentage of titles acquired from BIPOC authors and illustrators increased to 29%, from 22%. CEO Michael Pietsch acknowledged that despite the improvement, much more work needs to be done. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A survey of trade staff shows the majority would prefer to work two or three days a week in the office, but many want flexible working to go further to aid accessibility to the trade. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-30 15:53:10 UTC ]
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Petition signed by more than 200 Simon & Schuster employees delivered to publishing house also calls for end to deals with members of Trump administrationMore than 200 members of staff at Simon & Schuster have signed a petition calling for the publishing house to cancel its seven-figure... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-04-27 13:55:17 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster president Jonathan Karp says seven-figure book deal will go ahead, after open letter from employees accuses publisher of being ‘on the wrong side of justice’Simon & Schuster has said it will not pull out of a seven-figure book deal with Mike Pence after some of its... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-04-21 12:05:44 UTC ]
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The ProQuest-NYU Libraries project is available to thousands of international students and scholars during its pilot until August 31. The post International Students, Scholars Have Access to NYU’s Pilot With ProQuest appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-07 04:12:31 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired Block, Delete, Move On: It’s Not You, It’s Him by anonymous online relationship expert Lalalaletmeexplain. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-22 04:03:10 UTC ]
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Photographers told to provide images of attractive women and avoid ‘pigs in lipstick’The Weekly Beast: News Corp gives Kevin Rudd the silent treatmentA veteran News Corp Australia photographer has given devastating evidence to a parliamentary inquiry about the way the Murdoch newspapers treated... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-03-12 07:44:32 UTC ]
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Call for inquiry into academic publishers as locked-down students unable to access study material onlineCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLibrarians at UK universities say students’ reading lists for this term are being torn up because of publishers’ “eye-watering”... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-01-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus is launching a one-month internship programme in collaboration with the MA Black British Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, co-founded by Professor Joan Anim-Addo and Dr Deirdre Osborne. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 05:30:33 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters.In the cards Financial giant Visa picked Wieden+Kennedy as its new creative... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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The collective hopes to turn the Oxford home of the famed author into a center celebrating his works. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2020-12-02 20:54:10 UTC ]
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