Annual Fairfax-Westchester basketball showdown could be first big casualty of teachers' strike

Fairfax (17-1) is ready to take on Westchester (18-1) on Friday night in the City Section basketball game of the year. Players are reaching peak form. Fans are ready to stand in line to pack the Fairfax gym. Coaches are ready to put together their final game preparation. Except the game is unlikely... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK’s Tim Healy Hutchinson Sees Big Potential In Asia

Asia is an important growth market for Britain’s second largest publisher, Hachette UK. Sales in the region have grown faster than European markets, says Hachette UK's Group CEO. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Teachers 'frustrated' over Reading for Pleasure

Teachers have a strong desire to teach reading for pleasure but feel frustrated by a restrictive... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Big Publishers Think Genre Fiction Like Sci-Fi Is the Future of E-Books

The future of book publishing is increasingly digital -- and increasingly tilted towards genre fiction.     Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ether for Authors: Why Are the Big Six So Silent?

Porter Anderson takes in the week's online debates on the belief that big publishers' power is diminished, ebook royalties, Amazon Worlds, pay for writers and more. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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End of the road for Fairfax technology titles

Fairfax Media has confirmed that it will no longer publish longstanding technology titles Computerworld, Reseller News and PC World. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Magazines to Close NZ Tech Titles

Fairfax Magazines will resign the licences, owned by IDG, to publish technology titles Computerworld, Reseller News and PC World in New Zealand. In a press release sent out to the media late yesterday, the organisation says the decision is based on ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big Data and MOOCs Herald Change for Academic Publishers

This year's US Innovations Seminar of the International Association of STM Publishers focused on the impact of data mining, MOOCs and new author/researcher tools. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Free ebook war engulfs China’s big two

A price war earlier this month between two of China’s biggest online booksellers has... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A ‘Perfect’ American Novel Strikes Gold Overseas

Why isn’t this book more famous?” asked the writer C.P. Snow about John Williams’s Stoner in 1973, eight years after it was first published by Viking Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TES poll reveals teachers’ favourite reads

A list of teachers’ favourite books compiled by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) has... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax shake-up

Fairfax Metro Media chief executive Jack Matthews is set to leave the publishing company in a massive shake-up that will see its business units reshuffled and merged. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald

[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Implements ‘Real-Time’ Working at its Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Offices

Fairfax Media is rolling out a number of initiatives this year as part of its ‘Fairfax of the Future’ strategy which aims to streamline operations and support the publisher’s shift to multi-platform delivery. The compa ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Hardcover, the Big Didn’t Get Bigger: Facts & Figures 2012

Last year at the end of this annual bestseller article, we made the obvious prediction that unit sales for hardcover bestsellers would be even lower for 2012 books and that the “ebook explosion could be the culprit.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wiley looks to make $80m annual savings

Wiley will endeavour to make $80m in annual cost savings going forward as part of an ongoing bid... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three indie bookstores file lawsuit against Amazon and Big Six publishers

The stores charge that secret agreements made between the publishers and Amazon give Amazon the advantage in selling ebooks, but some industry observers find flaws in their logic. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber to publish 'shocking' teacher tale

Faber is preparing to publish a novel it has dubbed a "hand grenade tossed into the heart of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookish.com Launches, Applies Big Data to Book Discovery

By incorporating trillions of calculations, Bookish.com, the new online bookstore financed by Hachette, Penguin and S&S, promises to apply Big Data to book discovery. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big children's brands push up 2012 sales

The value of the children’s physical books market last year was marginally up on 2011,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big Names Dominated Bestsellers in 2012

Parsing through the top 10 bestsellers of 2012 in a number of major publishing categories reads like a usual suspects list, as a small number of authors filled a large number of spots. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reuters Gutting Web Infrastructure for 'Reuters Next,' its Big Online Retooling

Over the past few years, the media arm of Thomson Reuters has been trying to polish its 160-year-old brand to a more contemporary sheen by recruiting A-list journalists and pundits and expanding into areas like blogging, Internet TV and magazines. I ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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