Acting on Impulse

The question of how readers will discover books that they didn't already plan to buy has been growing in importance in the book industry as more sales move from physical bookstores to online retailers. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pavilion acts fast to grab Instagrammer Swift

Stacie Swift’s book of “positivity, self-care and words to live by” has been won by Pavilion in a four-way auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 21:56:41 UTC ]
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University Press Week Wants You to 'Read. Think. Act.'

The Association of University Presses has announced the theme for this year’s University Press Week, which runs from Sunday, November 3 through Saturday, November 9: “Read. Think. Act.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In pursuit of truth: why marketers must act now to sustain trusted news

When did the term “fake news” begin to permeate everyday conversation? In an informal poll of friends and colleagues, almost everyone said, “sometime in 2016.” And when asked, “how do you distinguish between real and fake news?” the entire group answered the same way: they check reliable news... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 17:16:34 UTC ]
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How the CASE Act Benefits Authors

The Authors Guild director says that, if passed, the bill would provide an inexpensive way for creators to defend their copyrights. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Monstrous Acts and Erections of Doom: On Five ’80s-Era “Paperbacks from Hell”

THE MOST TERRIFYING WORK of fiction you may read in 2019 — Elizabeth Engstrom’s When Darkness Loves Us — first crawled to life as a cheapo paperback in the mid-1980s. Now back in print as part of Valancourt’s Paperbacks from Hell series of ’70s and ’80s horror rediscoveries, Engstrom’s genre... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-09-18 12:30:01 UTC ]
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Racism, Reading and an Act of Courage (shelftalker)

Are children who read a lot of books more likely to do the right the thing in a tough spot? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-08 12:00:15 UTC ]
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He Said, He Said: One Writer’s Account of His Second Act

“The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony” is Rick Moody’s attempt to come to terms with his troubled domestic life. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-08-06 09:00:06 UTC ]
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Libraries Act as Cooling Centers in Heatwaves

If you needed yet another reason to love libraries: they help during heatwaves. Libraries in Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, California, ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-07-28 10:31:48 UTC ]
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US Publishers Association and Authors Guild Renew Support for CASE Act

The US Senate Committee on the Judiciary has a markup session scheduled for the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act on Thursday (July 18). The post US Publishers Association and Authors Guild Renew Support for CASE Act appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-16 02:09:29 UTC ]
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Copyright Advocates Applaud Canada’s Parliamentary Review of Modernization Act

While the recommendations still must be legislated, Canadian publishing sees light at the end of a tunnel, after years of devastating copyright losses. The post Copyright Advocates Applaud Canada’s Parliamentary Review of Modernization Act appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-16 21:20:13 UTC ]
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HQ partners with East 15 Acting School on Goldie's debut audiobook

HarperCollins has teamed up with London-based East 15 Acting School to create the audiobook for Costa Short Story award winner Luan Goldie's debut novel, Nightingale Point. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US Authors Guild Joins With AAP and Copyright Alliance on CASE Act

Intended to make it easier for rights holders to defend copyrighted work the CASE Act is getting backing from publishing's trade and advocacy organizations. The post US Authors Guild Joins With AAP and Copyright Alliance on CASE Act appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Acting Baltimore Mayor Young orders audit of youth fund management amid 'Healthy Holly' scandal

Acting Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young has ordered an audit of Associated Black Charities’ management of the city’s Children and Youth Fund because the organization asked businesses with city contracts buy copies of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s self-published children’s books. Young said he... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Acting UMMS chief: Baltimore Mayor Pugh approached medical system for book deal

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh solicited a lucrative no-bid arrangement to sell copies of her self-published children’s books to the University of Maryland Medical System in “direct conversations” with the hospital network’s CEO, a top system official testified Saturday in Annapolis. Acting CEO... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anti-vaxx propaganda is flooding the internet. Will tech companies act? | Lucky Tran, Rachel Alter and Tonay Flattum-Riemers

As vaccine advocates we can change our tone but companies such as Amazon, YouTube and Facebook must stop profiting off human vulnerabilityWhen it comes to providing accurate medical information, social media is a hot mess. Reporting by the Guardian and elsewhere over the last few months has... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers urge government to 'act quickly' on 'Amazon tax'

News that the government may bring in an ‘Amazon tax’ to help “rebalance the playing field” between physical and online retailers has been welcomed by booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kitchen Confidential Showed It Was Never Too Late for a Second Act

Kitchen Confidential, the book that made Anthony Bourdain a star after he published it in 2000, hasn’t quite aged like a perfect Burgundy. Some of it may have even turned a little vinegary. The memoir celebrated a profane and raunchy culinary culture boiling over with testosterone, where... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2018-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reading On Acts of Faith

New books on religious and spiritual practices have the capacity to teach and inspire. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Fix Our Marketplace,’ Canadian Publishers Tell Parliament in Copyright Act Hearings

'My colleagues and I are suffering real-time damage triggered by this act.' Glenn Rollans and Kate Edwards of the Association of Canadian Publishers, along with John Degen of the Writers' Union, testify in hearings on the Copyright Modernization Act. The post ‘Fix Our Marketplace,’ Canadian... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SAT and ACT flunk out in documentary 'The Test & the Art of Thinking'

Michael Arlen Davis’ briskly informative, convincing documentary “The Test & the Art of Thinking” takes aim at those gantlets of supposed aptitude measurement, the SAT and ACT (originally, the Scholastic Aptitude Test and American College Testing, respectively; now known by their acronyms).... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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