Jay Asher, the author of several YA novels including Thirteen Reasons Why (Penguin), has filed a lawsuit against the US branch of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and its executive director, Lin Oliver, following last year’s accusations of sexual harassment. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the most famous lines associated with a government sex scandal was uttered in 1963 by Mandy Rice-Davies, a party girl and peripheral player in the Profumo affair, which helped bring down Harold Macmillan’s Tory government. Informed during an appearance on the witness stand that one of the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After oral arguments on Thursday, a New York State Supreme Court rejected Simon & Schuster’s motion to dismiss Milo Yiannopoulos’ $10 million breach of contract lawsuit over the cancellation of his book, 'Dangerous." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jada Pinkett Smith says she's no Scientologist. She's no Jew, Hindu or Buddhist either. The "Girls Trip" star, who often publicly shuts down rumors about her marriage and unique parenting style, set the record straight about her faith on Facebook in the wake of ex-Scientologist Leah Remini's... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myriad has bought world rights to What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape, a "game-changing" book that looks at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, counsellor and activist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hardt's novel claimed the #1 spot on the iBooks Bestseller list this past week, followed by Sandra Brown's 'Seeing Red' and Karin Slaughter's 'The Good Daughter' in slots #2 and #3, respectively. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marji Ross, president of the conservative press Regnery Publishing, sent a letter to her authors saying the paper "prioritizes liberal-themed books over conservative books." For this reason, the bonus structure in her house's contracts will now rely on a different list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nonprofit group Truth in Advertising claims Goop is exploiting women by marketing products ‘as having the ability to treat diseases and disorders’Goop, the lifestyle and publishing company founded by Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow, is facing new criticisms from an advertising... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Milo Yiannopoulos has reissued his $10m legal complaint against Simon & Schuster US for cancelling his book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book co-written by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and BetterWorks Systems Inc. CEO Kris Duggan has been put on hold in the wake of a sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against Duggan. “We and the authors have agreed to defer publication of 'Measure What Matters' at the... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2017-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 'Dangerous' author has filed a $10 million lawsuit against his former publisher, Simon & Schuster. Is it a publicity stunt? Or can he prevail? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has served his former publisher Simon & Schuster US with a $10m lawsuit, days after his self-published memoir was released. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transparency reports about government data requests have become very common from tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. But while these firms publish reports, their hands are tied when it comes to what they can reveal. Twitter wants to change that. A federal judge in California... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The estate of J R R Tolkien and HarperCollins have reportedly settled an $80m (£62m) lawsuit against Warner Bros over the licensing of online games, apps, slot machines and other types of gambling merchandise based on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian Rankin has brought David Walliams’ reign in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot to an end, after four weeks. Rather be the Devil (Orion), the 21st John Rebus title, leapfrogged The World’s Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins Children's) to swipe the top spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elsevier has been awarded $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, online repositories of millions of pirated scientific documents. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cassandra Clare’s lawyer has sought a court order demanding sci-fi writer Sherrilyn Kenyon disclose evidence in the case over trademark infringement. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Docs.com is a file sharing service from Microsoft that lets you publish and share content from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway, and Minecraft world, as well as PDF documents. It was originally created as part of a collaboration with Facebook in 2010, and then revamped in 2015. However,... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Other writers have reacted with scepticism to the Alex Rider author’s claim that he was discouraged from ‘artificial and possibly patronising’ writingA furore has broken out in the children’s books world around claims by Alex Rider creator Anthony Horowitz that he was “warned off” creating a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Awami League-controlled government has charged and jailed journalists using vague new laws Mahfuz Anam still laughs at the size of the damages claims he was landed with last year. “It amounted to about US $8bn [£6.2bn],” the editor of Bangladesh’s Daily Star newspaper said. “I’m in the realm... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The London Evening Standard has claimed that Penguin Random House UK is “eyeing plush new offices in Nine Elms” in the Southbank regeneration area in London SW8. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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