Employees at book publisher Random House are getting a little something extra in their fishnet Christmas stockings this year, a $5,000 bonus. The bonus, which will be the same for top editors as their secretaries, follows a particularly good year for the publishing house in... Continue reading at 'ABC News'
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The President Is Missing will see the former US leader make his prose fiction debut in collaboration with his golf partner the crime writing mega-sellerIn one of the most unexpected literary collaborations to date, former US president Bill Clinton is to publish a novel with bestselling crime... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jess Gofton tell us all about her role as marketing development officer at University of Wales Press as part of our Wales Regional Focus, the first of our Regional Focus series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kyrsten Lowell from Gardie Grant Publishing tells us all about her role as gift and special sales assistant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The industry’s earnings hit a new high in 2016, according to the PA Publishing Yearbook 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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United Airlines will offer up to $10,000 when a traveler voluntarily gives up a seat on an oversold flight, part of a policy overhaul following the passenger-yanking video seen around the world. The Chicago-based carrier is adopting 10 policy changes in response to the outcry over the April 9... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A bill that would empower Donald Trump to appoint the next Register of Copyrights easily passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, and is headed to the Senate. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Victor Rios, a sociology professor at UC Santa Barbara, believes that positive change in the criminal justice system is possible only when authority figures stop placing labels on youth from underprivileged neighborhoods and show more empathy. “We shouldn’t label them as being ‘at risk,’ we... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Niriksha Bharadia from Faber & Faber tells us all about her role as social media assistant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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After briefly stalling, a bill that would empower Donald Trump to appoint the next Register of Copyrights could come to a vote in the House of Representatives next week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned $783,000 for his memoir, which has sold only 3,200 copies since it was published 2½ years ago, the Buffalo News reports. Cuomo's “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life” was published by the Harper Collins imprint Harper in October 2014.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicken House has signed an “exclusive deal” with one of China’s largest publishing houses, Liaoning Publishing Group, which will publish all the forthcoming prize-winners of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new Amazon UK Kindle Storyteller Award is open to writers everywhere, as BookCon in New York announces Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown for June 3 and 4. The post Industry Notes: New £20,000 ‘Kindle Storyteller’ Award; BookCon Announces Panels appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Carly Blake from Templar Publishing tells us all about her role as managing editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"General news is a commodity and hard to charge for as it’s free everywhere. We’re focusing on what’s truly distinctive." The post The Times of London sees success in an editions approach to digital publishing appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Margaret Atwood calls 'an essential window into many of the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now' announces a new publisher. The post Scotland’s Young 404 Ink Publishing House: ‘Believing in What We’re Doing’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicken House has accepted a blind pre-empt from Spanish publisher Roco for Witchborn, a teen fantasy novel by first-time author Nicholas Bowling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Fears for the status of staff from EU member states has emerged as the “overwhelming” concern for the UK book trade, as it grapples with the realities of Brexit in the week Article 50 was triggered. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today's SpaceX launch will be logged in the history books as the first time a flight-proven orbital class rocket has successfully been relaunched and returned to Earth. "We just had an incredible day today," CEO Elon Musk said after the first stage F... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist who began writing to relieve the stress of her psychiatry job says literary success will not stop her listening to ‘real voices’ in hospitalA bestselling debut novelist who wrote her book in a hospital car park as stress release from her job as a psychiatrist is to return to the NHS.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canbury Press is to host a gala evening to "celebrate the contribution of Europeans to the UK" as prime minister Theresa May prepares to trigger Article 50. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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