Alex Bell, best known for her horror fiction, makes a striking departure in a new middle-grade series of books for Faber. Fiona Noble reports. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an extract from his memoir, Waterstones founder Tim Waterstone describes the early days of the chain's creation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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While enjoyable, Kristen Roupenian’s horror stories don’t live up to the hype afforded her New Yorker hitIn publishing, the New Yorker’s Cat Person was rarer than a super blood wolf moon: a mere short story that became an international must-read, was released as a stand-alone paperback (inflated... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Jaipur Bookmark professional publishing program this year had Norway as its Country Partner and a visit from the Frankfurter Buchmesse's Juergen Boos. The post Issues and Debate at India’s 2019 Jaipur Bookmark Program: Freedom to Publish appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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RCW agent Sam Copeland was a trade rarity: a publishing staffer with no desire to turn author. Now, he says, he can’t stop writing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With three historical novels to her name, former editor Lucy Foley has turned her hand to a Highlands-set murder mystery. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pamela Drucker Mann discusses how Condé Nast plans to give advertisers what they want, not what publishers think they should have. The post ‘You have to sell advertisers what they need, not what you want’: Q&A with Conde Nast chief revenue officer, Pamela Drucker Mann appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just short of its 25th anniversary, Pula’s book fair in Croatia will draw some 50,000 people and 200 publishers to its program of debate and open discussion. By Olivia Snaije | @OliviaSnaije ‘We Wanted a Place for Freedom’ n a brilliantly sunny morning on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia, the... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this year's FutureBook conference in London, attendees from across the U.K. discussed trends in downloadable audiobooks, voice technology, and podcasts, and how publishers could compete with rivaling forms of entertainment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Quarto chief Marcus Leaver has offered insight into his future publishing career as chairman of mental health publisher Trigger, saying wants more freedom to expand the business across various mediums. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nick Bell, Snapchat's media matchmaker, is leaving the company, a departure that will be felt throughout the publishing world that worked closely with the executive. Bell was one of the early members of Snapchat's team of rising stars, joining the company five years ago when it needed to develop... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Translator best known for her witty English rendering of Asterix, the popular French comic book seriesIn 1970 Anthea Bell found herself with the tricky task of translating Asterix in Britain. The eighth adventure in the comic book series about everyone’s favourite Gaul rested on a French view of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Comic Con's audience is "rabid," and not just in the zombie comic book kind of way. That's according to Lance Fensterman, global president of event producer ReedPop, which was behind New York Comic Con this month."They're kind of bleeding-edge around technology, they're huge consumers... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visited the Frankfurt Book Fair and spoke with authors on stage about democracy and freedom of speech. The post Freedom in Turbulent Times: Steinmeier in Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are no shortage of contenders to the throne being produced by Apple, Hulu, Netflix, HBO, and Amazon (especially Amazon!). Can anything match the drama and spectacle of the original? With the news that Netflix is creating a new TV series and film projects around C.S. Lewis’ children’s... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author John Boyne has scooped the £2,000 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for his “sweeping, poignant and comedic odyssey” of post-war Ireland, The Heart’s Invisible Furies (Transworld). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two events, one this week at Sweden's Göteborg Book Fair and the other at Frankfurter Buchmesse's Weltempfang Salon in October, spotlight challenges to the freedom to publish. The post At Göteborg and Frankfurt: Kristenn Einarsson on the Freedom To Publish appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Economic pressures and social media are forcing the media to think twice about upsetting readersBy the time the 130,000 regular readers of the New York Review of Books picked up their new copy of the literary journal last week, the cover story had already cost the editor Ian Buruma his job. In a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: Time magazine is getting new... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The image of furious rows and storming-outs is not one that I recognise but an industry concoction to glamorise publishingThe Man Booker prize is airing its dirty linen, celebrating its 50th birthday by drip-feeding bits of gossip and scandal from judging meetings, ceremonies and parties through... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dame Kelly Holmes has joined The Book Fairies in dropping 200 copies of Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage in public places all around the UK, to mark the publication of its paperback edition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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