Anne Ishii to Head Philly’s Nonprofit Asian Arts Initiative

Anne Ishii, editor/translator and cofounder of queer/feminist publisher and lifestyle brand Massive, has been tapped to head the Philadelphia-based Asian Arts Initiative, a 25-year-old urban nonprofit arts center. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Phaidon Taps Judith Regan to Head New Multimedia Unit

In an unexpected move, Phaidon, a publisher best known for its lavishly produced art books, has hired Judith Regan to oversee a new division at the company called Regan Arts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Are Nonprofit Publishers Smiling?

Amazon's new charitable Web site, AmazonSmile, offers challenges for presses that would like to earn 0.5% on purchases. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McIlvaney's Laidlaw trilogy heads for TV

Company Pictures have optioned the TV rights to William McIlvanney's Laidlaw trilogy. Lisa... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buczacki heads Garden Media Guild prizewinners

Professor Stefan Buczacki has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Garden... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookPeople, Random House Partner on Pen-Pal Literacy Initiative

More than 40 schools have signed on to participate in new pen-pal literacy program in Austin, Tex., launched by BookPeople and Random House Children’s Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Is Self-Publishing and Open Access Viable for Art Publishing?

A German art foundation is experimenting with an open-access self-published monograph as an ebook. Could this be a model for other institutions looking for greater exposure? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Kate Spade Art Director Develops An Adorbs Book App For Kids

My Monster, by Julianna Goodman, bridges the divide between slick digital storytelling and homemade visuals.It's rare to see and "touch" things on the iPad screen that evoke the texture, color, and unpolished feel of real life. Fortunately, a new children's book app corrects that shortcoming,... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: NYC's graffiti history and other arts stories

An exhibition on New York's graffiti traces the history of the art form in the city, a Parisian museum shows how immigrants helped shape comic books worldwide - and other stories from the world of arts. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eleanor Catton reprint heads to shops

Granta is to reprint 25,000 hardbacks of Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fox's Distribution Head Mike Hopkins May Succeed Andy Forssell as Hulu CEO

Per a report from Bloomberg last night, Fox Networks president of distribution Mike Hopkins is close to being named CEO of Disney/21st Century Fox/Comcast joint venture Hulu. After founder Jason Kilar resigned in March (along with chief technology officer Tom Rich), svp of content and... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New UK e-businesses head to Frankfurt

Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s and Blackwell’s new ebook divisions will make their first... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Star Tribune Announces New Initiative for Real-Time Management of Digital Advertising Campaigns

As a premium content publisher with unprecedented reach and coverage across the upper Midwest, Star Tribune has attracted the largest online readership of any Minnesota media brand—and the advertisers seeking to connect with that audience. ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Play Ebooks Expands to 9 New Asian Countries

Google has expanded Play ebook sales to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Horse is a Lie: 'horse_ebooks' Twitter spam is performance art

Twitter is quite the medium. An endless source of looping GIFs, "viral" videos, and, sadly, bad advertising. Most of the latter category is quickly dismissed by the block and report spam features of Twitter, but the occasional spambot elevates its "craft" to a level of surreal bliss which begs... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bodley Head and FT launch essay prize

The Bodley Head and the Financial Times have launched their annual essay prize. The award will... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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YouTube Executive Heads to Digital Distributor OverDrive

Lee Milstein, who had been heading up YouTube's efforts to link up with news organizations, has left to become chief strategy officer at OverDrive, a company that distributes digital books to libraries. Cleveland-based OverDrive, which handles the Kindle Lending Library program for Amazon, plans... Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Art of Italian Cooking: PW Talks with Scot Conant

Restaurateur Scott Conant, author of 'The Scarpetta Cookbook,' explains the Italian idea of sprezzatura, making hard work look easy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ReaderLink Head Calls for Higher E-book Prices

Warehouse clubs, mass merchandisers, and other big-box retailers remain important to publishers because they not only sell books, they are places where books can be discovered. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Heads up, bookworms! Oyster is Netflix for books

The all-you-can-eat Netflix model of media consumption is now available for ebooks.Oyster, a year-old Flatiron-district startup with $3 million in backing, launched its iPhone e-reading application and subscription service on Thursday. For now, the service is only available by invitation (users... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Art Books Hit a (Gallery) Wall

“I’ll corroborate what you’ve probably been hearing,” says Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs, when asked to discuss the state of digital publishing in the art and photo book market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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