Last December, the New York Times published a story about something that happened during an avalanche. Something bad, I think, and likely thrilling, evocative, and perhaps, in the end, a stirring illustration of the strength of the human spirit. The story, called “Snow Fall,” was a huge hit. About 3 million readers visited “Snow Fall” in its first week online. Many of the readers came from Twitter and Facebook, and—even better for the Times—a huge number of them were people who didn’t normally read the NYT. Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Sheen will narrate the audio version of Philip Pullman’s first instalment of the Book of Dust trilogy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Grisham’s The Whistler (Hodder) has blown Martina Cole’s Betrayal (Headline) out of the UK Official Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kit de Waal, Clare Mackintosh and C E Morgan are some of the authors competing on the longlist for the inaugural £2,000 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, which celebrates contemporary fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman has revealed the storm-swept cover of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook announced Tuesday that publishers of Facebook Live videos can now add closed captions in order to make those videos more accessible to users who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Product manager Supratik Lahiri and director of accessibility Jeffrey Wieland said in a Newsroom post that daily... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The title of the first novel in Philip Pullman's new series The Book of Dust, a companion series to his famed His Dark Materials trilogy, has been revealed as La Belle Sauvage. The book, set for publication this autumn, will feature a new hero, 11-year-old Malcolm Polstead, and his daemon... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google, Facebook, et al are in reality media companies and must accept the responsibilities that go with it Attention, like snow, comes in two varieties; the fun, beautiful kind, and the “wrong” kind, the kind that stops trains and freezes democracy. Recently the seemingly unstoppable digital... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hilary Bell from Luath Press tells us all about her role as production and editorial manager. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat is the muse of virtually every app right now. Everybody from Instagram to Tinder is borrowing ideas from the platform, and now it's Medium's turn. Today, the self-publishing site is introducing a new feature for its mobile app called Series,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author’s follow-up to her unusual and striking début is set in the ancient Forest of Dean. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to the last weekend before the election, for which most of us are overwhelmingly grateful. If you like to stress-eat, then this might be an excellent time to see how many of Jonathan Gold’s new 101 list you can hit. The restaurant that is the subject of this week’s review, Jordan Kahn’s... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New works by J.K. Rowling, including two short story collections and 'Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide,' occupy three of the top five slots. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Up until now, Belle Boggs has been known for her fiction; in 2010, Mattaponi Queen was selected as a Kirkus top fiction debut, shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber Children’s has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to a middle-grade adventure involving zebra unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and polar bears by Alex Bell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishers Association boss is getting to grips with his new charges and canvassing opinion from its constituents about what it can do better - and how it can make more noise about what it already does. Tom Tivnan reports. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bell, the once-embattled lead pastor of Mars Hill Church, is drawing on his own experiences with risk, failure, and integrity in a guide to ‘How to Be Here Now.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The ongoing turmoil in the Middle East along with the refugee crisis there and in Europe has been the source of a clutch of manuscripts on offer at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's annual trade show, held this year from October 2–4 in Portland, Ore., Friday evening's celebratory dinner was all about the kids. Or at least, all about books for them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new international trailer for Jon Favreau's Rudyard Kipling adaptation is entirely in Russian. We don't understand what's being said, but it looks beautiful. The post The New International Trailer with Lots of Footage: The Jungle Book appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You all read a lot of books this summer? How do we know? Because we asked and you answered. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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