As her new movie, “I Feel Pretty,” hits theaters, the superstar comedian and actor opens up about confidence, gender inequality, and why she doesn’t obsess over photos of herself. It seems impossible that anyone could experience the year 2015 as Amy Schumer did and ever suffer from confidence issue again. Recall that 2015 was the year Schumer a.) won a Peabody Award for the second season of her sketch show, Inside Amy Schumer, b.) went viral nearly every week with that show’s critically worshipped third season, c.) made her movie debut with Trainwreck, a huge hit that she also happened to write, d.) won an Emmy, e.) hosted SNL for the first time, and f.) deftly maneuvered a $13M book deal for her eventual bestseller, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. If it’s exhausting just to list these milestones, surely living through them would buffer one’s confidence with some sort of Ironman-like supersuit forever. Right?Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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YUDU Media is to make a push into the education market with the launch of YUDU Education, a new... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Protestors hoping to prevent The Women's Library from moving from its East End home are... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hodder is planning its most "innovative" campaign for Jodi Picoult's next novel,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Eight of the top 10 bestselling novels in the UK last week were works of erotica, with E L James... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Volunteers will take over the running of ten libraries in Surrey after the county council was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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News Limited is planning to get rid of 10 per cent of its photographers across the publisher's newspapers. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
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The story is about a criminal who wins the lottery, and the author has moved to America, land of the super PACs, so money is on his mind.Martin Amis, once dubbed "fiction's angriest writer," continues dissecting the absurdity and excesses of postmodern society in his latest novel, "Lionel Asbo:... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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London booksellers say trade has continued slow as the predicted Olympic boost fails to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Cornwall council has announced a raft of privatisation plans, meaning key services such as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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For serial entrepreneur John Ossenmacher, cofounder, president, and CEO of ReDigi, which bills itself as “the world’s first pre-owned digital marketplace,” the copyright infringement case filed by Capitol Records in U.S. District Court in Manhattan at the start of the year to shut it down is... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Bloomberg LP is jumping into an area dominated by established media players again—this time with a daily magazine it will produce for the Republican and Democratic conventions. The daily, called Bloomberg Insider, will run 32 pages per ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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A prominent Senate Democrat sided with Apple this week, and called on the Justice Department to drop its ebook lawsuit against the Cupertino, Calif. company. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote in an opinion piece that appeared in the Wednesday edition of the Wall Street Journal that a victory... Continue reading at Betanews
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Sen. Charles Schumer wrote in an op-ed that the Department of Justice's lawsuit could 'wipe out the publishing industry as we know it.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Believe it or not, but that whole ebook price fixing fiasco is still an ongoing issue for the Justice Department. New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer wishes it wasn't however, he simply wants the DOJ to drop the case and walk away. In a lengthy (factually questionable) op-ed in the Wall... Continue reading at Engadget
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The foundation behind a proposed museum honoring American authors has published a plan for the building. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Cornerstone has reprinted the Fifty Shades trilogy a further three times this week, as retailers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Indie publisher Duckworth has teamed up with the Read Russia project to create a 125-volume... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The sale to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, calls into question Spin's future as a print publication. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Oxford University Press has said it will continue its education business in East Africa, despite... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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