12 Sci-Fi Stories to Help Make Sense of the Climate, Risk, and Our Digital Lives

Don’t miss these short stories featuring firefighting drones, lab-grown mammals, long-buried fan fiction, and much more. Continue reading at 'Slate'

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Facebook COO says it's 'exploring' restrictions on who can go live

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg took to the Instagram blog this evening saying "We have heard feedback that we must do more – and we agree" (the post was also published as an op-ed in the New Zealand Herald). Despite the lack of credibility big te... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2019-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘We can’t afford it’; Daunt hits back at real living wage campaign as petition approaches 8,000

Waterstones m.d. James Daunt has warned the business cannot afford to pay the real living wage to its most junior staff and increase the pay of its most experienced booksellers, as nearly 8,000 people backed the campaign calling for the rise.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gorman made English PEN director as Byatt joins First Story

English PEN has named its new director as Daniel Gorman, current executive director of the Shubbak Festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I was paid £12,500 to write my book – and here's why I'm telling you | Alex Holder

The more we know about what other people earn, the more we can understand our own circumstancesI was paid a £12,500 advance to write my book, Open Up. Sharing this publicly, even as the author of a book about our emotional relationship with money, was initially petrifying, but I ended up... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Grand experiment’: Digital publishers see Apple News+ as a testbed, not savior

Publishers including Vox Media, Business Insider and theSkimm will use Apple News+ to test things that will develop their own consumer revenue operations. The post ‘Grand experiment’: Digital publishers see Apple News+ as a testbed, not savior appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McDermid launches search for real-life stories from people of Scotland

Crime author Val McDermid has launched the Blether campaign, searching for real-life stories from the people of Scotland, to be published on the Scottish Book Trust’s website. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New platform for underrepresented writers launches with series of live events

A new platform for underrepresented writers, Untitled, has launched with its first free salon taking place next month in London. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Report: Spanish-Language Subscription Digital Sales Gain in Revenues

As ebook sales continue to grow in Spanish-language markets, the new report from the Dosdoce and Bookwire.es shows digital subscription services are also gaining consumer traction. The post Report: Spanish-Language Subscription Digital Sales Gain in Revenues appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple's long-awaited streaming TV service to offer Oprah, Amazing Stories

Oprah Winfrey brings documentaries and Book Club, Steven Spielberg brings thrills and chills to Apple TV Plus. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones says it can't pay living wage, as 1,300 authors support staff appeal

Managing director says book chain ‘simply not profitable enough’, as Sally Rooney, Val McDermid and other authors write to protestMore than 1,300 writers including Kerry Hudson, David Nicholls, Sally Rooney, Michael Rosen and Val McDermid have backed a campaign for Waterstones booksellers to be... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Story time with ebooks 'not as helpful' as print books

A study finds parents focus more on technology with electronic books and interact less with children. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Content Blockchain Project Wins One of Germany’s Digital Publishing Awards

The Content Blockchain project, a collaborative effort among three companies, includes the development of the ISCC, an identifier of content in a decentralized ledger environment. The post Content Blockchain Project Wins One of Germany’s Digital Publishing Awards appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digiday magazine’s latest issue looks at the shifting role of intermediaries in digital media

The first issue of 2019 focuses on the shifting role of intermediaries. The post Digiday magazine’s latest issue looks at the shifting role of intermediaries in digital media appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cornerstone lands inside story of commodity trading

Cornerstone has acquired the rights to the “gripping” inside story of the “the last swashbucklers of global capitalism”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupi Kaur | 'Paper is where poetry lives, but performance is where the words come to life'

Canadian instapoet Rupi Kaur talks to us about her poetry journey and love of live performance, following a sold-out UK event during London Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Nobody’s Fool,’ the Story Behind Zippy the Pinhead

Bill Griffith’s new graphic biography 'Nobody’s Fool' tells the life story of Schlitzie, the microcephalic sideshow performer who inspired Griffith’s iconic cartoon character Zippy the Pinhead. Along the way, the book offers a look into the vanished world of circuses and sideshows. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rooney and Burns make Rathbones Folio Prize longlist

Sally Rooney and Anna Burns have made the longlist for this year's Rathbones Folio Prize with 20 writers competing for the £30,000 prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AT&T raises DirecTV Now prices, making chumps of those who backed Time Warner merger

From the day in 2016 when AT&T announced its $85.4-billion merger with Time Warner, through three years of antitrust wrangling over the deal, the big telecommunications company promised that it would mean lower prices and more choices for consumers. Now AT&T has a message for everyone... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hammond vows to make tech companies pay ‘fair share’

Philip Hammond vowed to make tech giants pay their “fair share” of tax in yesterday’s Spring Statement.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Review: ‘Lackawanna Blues’ is potent as live memoir, an actor’s tribute to the woman who rescued him

“Lackawanna Blues,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York city near Buffalo, was turned into a TV movie that won S. Epatha Merkerson an Emmy Award. But the compact... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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