'Morally wrong' unpaid internships give trade 'poor reputation'

The publication of new guidelines on internships has been hailed as a “very positive” step in improving accessibility and diversity in the industry, while figures in the trade have slammed unpaid work as "morally wrong" and of earning the industry a "poor reputation". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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The New Press: Better Diversity Through Internships

Since its launch in 1992, the New Press—a nonprofit publishing house—has proudly run an internship program “explicitly designed to diversify a notoriously monochromatic industry,” explains executive director Diane Wachtell. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booktrust gives 2,000 books to foodbanks

Reading charity is donating around 2,000 books to foodbanks in London and the Midlands this Christmas. The charity is teaming up with The Trussell Trust foodbank network to distribute books to foodbanks in Wandsworth, West Norwood, Manchester, Coventry and Birmingham. Each foodbank will receive... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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American Bar Association Launches Trade Imprint

The American Bar Association's publishing division is launching a trade imprint. Ankerwycke has just released its debut title, a legal thriller by blogger David Lat, to be followed by 34 titles in 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trade welcomes Chancellor's tax and rates measures

Booksellers have welcomed the news that business rates will be reviewed and a 25% tax will be imposed on multinationals' profits from UK economic activity. In the Autumn Statement yesterday (3rd December) the Chancellor George Osborne revealed that multinational companies like Amazon, Google,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus launches Christmas book-giving campaign

Quercus has launched a Christmas campaign to celebrate the joy of giving and receiving books. As part of the Greatest Gift campaign, 15 key bloggers and BookTubers will upload a post explaining why they think books are the greatest gift to give. Each Greatest Gift “blog tour partner” will also... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trade Sales Rose in August

Sales of adult trade books rose 1.8% in August, over August 2013, while sales in the children’s/young adult category jumped 20.9%, according to the AAP’s monthly StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian Publisher Gives His 700 Newspaper Staff a Pre-Christmas Bonus

Ray Tindle, the newspaper publisher who likes to reward his staff, is to pay a "chairman's bonus" to his company's 700 staff ahead of Christmas. At the top level, full-time employees will get &pound;400 each. The minimum pay ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales Up, Earnings Down at HMH Trade

Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade segment rose 1.5% in the third quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, rising to $46.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA , however, dropped 16.3% to $7.2 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Huffington Post's Buzasi to give FutureBook keynote

Carla Buzasi, the Huffington Post UK’s founding editor-in-chief and now global chief content officer on trends business WGSN, is the third keynote speaker at FutureBook 2014, joining digital entrepreneur George Berkowski, and Penguin Random House UK chief executive Tom Weldon, at Europe’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trade tributes to Lynda Bellingham

Lynda Bellingham’s fiction publisher Simon & Schuster has paid tribute to her as a “vibrant” woman who leaves “a truly wonderful literary legacy”. The British actress died yesterday (19th October) aged 66, after a battle with colon cancer. She wrote the novel Tell Me Tomorrow for Simon... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tamblyn takes to Twitter to give his views on Amazon

Kobo’s president has launched a Twitter tirade about why indie authors should beware of Amazon’s supplier negotiation tactics. Michael Tamblyn, president and chief content officer of the Canada-based ebook company, took to social media today (17th October) to warn self-published authors in 32... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man wrongly identified by Fairfax Media as terrorism suspect 'may sue'

Mans photo published in front-page stories on Abdul Numan Haider, shot dead by police after allegedly stabbing two officers Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big names give backing to Books Are My Bag

Celebrities and authors including Graham Norton and Ross Kemp have thrown their weight behind the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roddy Doyle writing novel for adults with poor literacy

Booker winner to pen Dead Man Talking for the Quick Reads initiative, which offers books by mainstream authors that are the same in every respect but simply shorter and easierThe Man Booker prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyles new novel will be written for the one-in-six adults in the UK who... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Gives KU Authors $2.7M Bonus

Kindle Direct Publishing "All-Stars," which includes the top 100 authors and top 100 books, will split a multi-million dollar incentive. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You’re using analytics wrong: five mistakes publishers make with their data

What do most people think of when they think of analytics? Metrics and measurement, mostly. Limiting analytics to just metrics and measurement limits what you can do. How does a publisher make the leap from metrics to action? Sponsor content by Parse.ly. The post You’re using analytics wrong:... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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South Korea in race for Beijing trade

Tech-savvy South Korean publishers were out in force at the Beijing Book Fair (27th–31st... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Higgs boson could destroy the universe in the wrong conditions

That Higgs boson that everyone was so eager to find last year? As it turns out, it could be the end of everything -- in the wrong circumstances, anyway. In his upcoming book Starmus, Stephen Hawking notes that the once-elusive particle could become... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How to Establish Robust Trade in Emerging Ebook Markets

For an ebook distributor to succeed in a developing market they need to adapt to methodologies, in particular payment mechanisms, already prevalent in that market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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