News and Events Photo by Wendy Call / www.wendycall.com Deadline for Applications: Thursday, January 7, 2021 Call for Applications: Two series co-editors, one with expertise in Asian literatures and one with expertise in Middle Eastern and/or African literatures, for Best Translations: An Annual Anthology, a new publishing project Best Translations is a new initiative: an annual anthology of best literary translations, published by U.S. translators, of short-form literature from around the world. This new annual anthology will operate in the tradition of the “Best American” series by showcasing another great form of U.S. literary production: literature in translation. This project, an independent initiative, has been formally endorsed by the board of directors of ALTA, the American Literary Translators Association. The Best Translations anthology will showcase the most exemplary literary translations into English by U.S. translators. Translators can include anyone living in the U.S., and U.S. citizens living abroad, who had work published by U.S. literary journals during the previous year. Selection criteria will include both the quality of the finished translation and an assessment of the translation against the original work. Best Translations offers the best of global literature, brought to a broad audience of U.S. readers by outstanding U.S. translators. Three series editors will represent languages from diverse... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his "magical and revolutionary" new machines in San Francisco, traditional publishers had been overtaken by a collective delusion. They be ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Morpurgo's publishers are building on his War Horse success with three new books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online retailer Fishpond.co.uk is looking to build relationships with publishers large and small... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the May issue of the Slate Book Review, Meghan O’Rourke writes about Are You My Mother?, cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s therapy-fueled exploration of her relationship with her mom. Writes O’Rourke: Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leaders from the world of magazine publishing are set to tackle the industry's multiplatform future on Wednesday (9 May) at Publishing+, the PPA's conference at the Hilton Metropole. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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All hail the ebook! Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a straight face that you wouldn't at least take pause before adding a new title to your collection. Numbers are in from The Publisher's Association -- a group of 120 companies across the trade... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Robert M. Sacks In any given year, I give about a dozen “talks” about the publishing industry. Sometimes it is to interested companies and sometimes it is to the industry at large during publishing conventions... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Washington, D.C., May 2, 2012: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, today announced the launch of its Digital Publishing Platform (DPP) at MarkLogic World 201 ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By James Sturdivant My favorite part of a very good keynote address from Josh Tyrangiel, editor of Bloomburg Businessweek, at this year’s Publishing Business Conference & Expo (see full coverage here ) came... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are creating exclusive products, including an original essay by Julian Barnes, ... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Science fiction publisher Tor UK has announced it will stop using the technology that restricts copying from all of its ebooks, in a possible precedent for the industry. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are announcing a new partnership to develop and sell educational ebooks on the Nook e-reader. Microsoft is investing $300 million in the subsidiary, while B&N will own the remaining 82 percent of it. (The new operation is being provisionally called "Newco,"... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy is to be published in Germany by Carlsen and Ullstein,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors have called for the Carnegie Medal to offer two separate awards. The medal, which is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Heinemann has acquired an anthology of 21 stories originally published in literary... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publishing industry has a problem. The old guard haven't innovated. And neither their business models nor their products embrace the digital books revolution. Take the ongoing and complicated spat between Apple and the Justice Department over the agency pricing model and alleged collusion... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal has defended Apple's Ebook Strategy saying it is not only good for Apple, but good for consumers and publishers as well. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cambridge University Press’ Education publishing arm has been renamed International... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schools and libraries specialist Raintree is launching into India with locally produced books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nature Publishing Group is trying to break into the future of scientific publishing with its new linked data platform—launched earlier this month; the new platform is designed to enrich search functions. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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