Academic printer Polestar goes into administration

Polestar, the UK’s largest independent printing company and a specialist producer of academic books and journals, is going into administration, putting 1,400 jobs at risk. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Secrecy measures for Testaments revealed: Printers subjected to airport-style security

Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale was subject of intense media scrutiny and—as its publisher and agent reveal—repeated hacking attacks and tight security processes. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-13 02:10:01 UTC ]
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Samantha Power’s Memoir Makes Me Wonder if She Should Never Have Joined the Obama Administration at All

Is it really worth it to be in the room where it happens? Or can you do more good from the outside? Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2019-09-12 20:18:38 UTC ]
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A black academic grapples with his own racism

Ibram X. Kendi writes of being influenced by racist ideas — and how to get rid of them. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-23 18:06:57 UTC ]
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Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message

Ken Cuccinelli offered his own revision of one of America’s most famous poems. It wasn’t pretty. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-14 19:58:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury signs deal with Classoos for 14,000 academic books

Bloomsbury has signed a licensing agreement to make 14,000 of its academic books available through digital textbook platform Classoos. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 06:50:05 UTC ]
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Jisc launches 'next generation' academic library tools

Not-for-profit firm Jisc has launched three "next generation" library services for the higher education sector, including one that makes academic collections visible through web searches. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 04:09:36 UTC ]
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2 Big Book and Magazine Printers Face Suit to Block Their Merger

The U.S. Justice Department is suing to stop the proposed $1.4 billion deal between Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications on antitrust grounds. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-06-24 16:52:47 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury's academic and professional revenue leaps by 13%

Bloomsbury’s results for the year ending 28th February 2019 show “outstanding performance” in the academic and professional division with a 13% increase in revenue growth, as it unveils a partnership with educational publishers Human Kinetics and Taylor and Francis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 03:51:48 UTC ]
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OUP and Blackwell’s triumph at Academic Book Trade Conference Awards

Oxford University Press (OUP) has been crowned Publisher of the Year for the ninth year running, while Blackwell’s also triumphed at this year’s Academic Book Trade Conference Awards (ABTC). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Second Canadian printer confirms it produced some of former Baltimore mayor's 'Healthy Holly' books

When FBI agents raided Baltimore City Hall, one of the dozens of items they seized was a UPS envelope containing a printer’s proof for a “Healthy Holly” book and an invoice from Premier Printing. The document was the first indication that additional copies of former Mayor Catherine Pugh’s... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time to work together, Academic Book Trade Conference told

The academic book trade must “work together in these turbulent times”, in the face of Brexit, political turmoil and the impact of the Teaching Excellence Framework, the Academic Book Trade Conference was told. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cengage Cites First Full Academic Year of ‘Unlimited’ as a Success

Education content subscription model Cengage Unlimited has sold more than one million subscriptions since August 2018, according to preliminary data from Cengage. The post Cengage Cites First Full Academic Year of ‘Unlimited’ as a Success appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London Book Fair 2019: Why Brexit Might Hit British Academic Publishers Hardest

Brexit remains a source of uncertainty for all British publishers, but it has already negatively impacted the academic publishing sector in the U.K. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian view on academic publishing: disastrous capitalism | Editorial

The giants of the scientific publishing industry have made huge profits for decades. Now they are under threatScientific publishing has long been a licence to print money. Scientists need journals in which to publish their research, so they will supply the articles without monetary reward. Other... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profile and Aitken Alexander create academics' non-fiction prize

Profile Books and Aitken Alexander have launched the Profile Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury India begins academic publishing with local authors

Bloomsbury is starting academic publishing in India this year as it continues to evolve its business in the country. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HCCP's Thomas Nelson ordered to pay $15m damages to printer EPAC

Thomas Nelson, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishers in the US, has been found guilty of fraud and breach of contract and ordered to pay $15m in damages to printer EPAC Technologies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wiley in 'transformative' partnership with German academic institutions

Wiley has signed what it describes as a “transformative” partnership with Projekt DEAL, which represents nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail wins Columbia academic's 'lavish' black history in five-way auction

Serpent’s Tail triumphed in a five-publisher auction, winning Columbia professor Saidiya Hartman’s "radical and lavish" history of young black women, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Administrators in talks over ‘new arrangements’ with HMV book suppliers

Administrators are in “ongoing” talks with book suppliers to HMV and trying to “make new arrangements” after the music retailer collapsed for a second time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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