Oxford Dictionaries has closed its survey for the least popular English word a day after it was launched due to “severe misuse” of the feature. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Heinemann is publishing a new work by Goldsmiths and IMPAC prize winner Nicola Barker, called I Am Sovereign. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daunt Books, Waterstones and Foyles are raising money for The Passage, a charity that supports people who are homeless, by selling a book of short stories by AS Byatt, Lennie James and Michael Morpurgo. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children who have 60 or more books at home are five and a half times more likely to read above the level expected for their age than their peers who have fewer than 10 books, according to the National Literacy Trust. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A familiar picture of declining spending on UK public libraries, with yet more library closures and staff cuts, and continuing drops in library visits and book loan numbers, has been revealed in the latest library statistics compiled by CIPFA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Nomophobia', a word used to describe stress and anxiety caused by being separated from a mobile phone, has been deemed the Cambridge Dictionary’s inaugural People’s Word of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following University Press of New England’s decision to close its doors at the end of 2018, the distributor has reached an agreement with University of Chicago Press and Chicago Distribution Center to handle distribution for its backlist and select new titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A third of Essex's libraries could close within the next five years, according to a report released by the county's council. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stan Lee, who brought a modern sensibility to comic books and provided lucrative fodder for Hollywood as co-creator of such sympathetically imperfect superheroes as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Iron Man, has died. He was 95. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The industry made small improvements on such hot-button issues as pay disparity and workforce diversification in 2017—but sexual harassment remains an issue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A tour of former Children’s Laureates and a celebratory anthology are just some of the plans being put together to mark next year’s 20th anniversary of the Waterstones Children’s Laureate role. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The School Library Data Group (SLDG), a sub-group of the Great School Libraries Campaign, has received a grant from the Foyle Foundation to undertake a major survey of UK school library provision. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s UK will this Christmas publish a short story about a snow dragon by Abi Elphinstone in picture book format, with illustrations by Fiona Woodcock. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has pre-empted The Right to Sex, a book about male sexual entitlement and #MeToo by Oxford professor Amia Srinivasan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The creation of the Women’s Prize for Fiction made it “embarrassing” for other prizes to have all-male shortlists, Golden Booker judge Kamila Shamsie has said, at a discussion event at the Frankfurt Book Fair. It also triggered a “shift” in the representation of women’s voices, she argued. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In director-level sales and marketing positions, men still take home more than women. But this year, female audience developers and account executives/content marketing professionals are out-earning their male counterparts and in some instances, are taking home thousands more. Last year's... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With an eye to 2023, when Italy will be Frankfurt's Guest of Honor, a new, expanded exhibition space is being inaugurated. And the book fair will be surveying publishers on issues around artificial intelligence. The post Frankfurt Notes: Italy Sending 249 Publishers; AI Survey at the Buchmesse... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford company Rebellion now has the world's biggest collection of English language comic book properties. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is the top social media platform used by book buyers in Canada, according to a new report on social media use by book buyers from BookNet Canada. YouTube is second. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press (OUP) is offering primary and secondary schools in the UK free access to the online Oxford English Dictionary to mark the company’s 90th anniversary. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Legislation opposed by firms like Facebook and Google and groups warning of detrimental consequences for the internetMusic companies, film-makers and media publishers could be in line for billions in payouts after EU lawmakers voted to accept controversial changes to copyright rules that aim to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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