At the gala, which PEN president Andrew Solomon said was the nonprofit's most successful fundraiser to date, J.K. Rowling, one of the evening's honorees, condemned the views of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo will honor PEN America with its seventh annual Industry Ambassador Award, which recognizes major innovators and creative leaders that make the book industry better, on June 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and 21 other companies today published an open letter to President Donald Trump, urging him to keep the US in the Paris Agreement to fight climate change for the good of the country's economy. The letter was posted... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With a focus this year on business models and monetization issues in the creative industries, THE ARTS+ is looking for cultural participants and their concepts. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson This Year: Monetization and Business Models deadline of June 9 has been... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Warning that new regulations will give Google, Apple and Facebook too much control of advertising and personal dataAn alliance of news publishers has called on European regulators to rethink proposed changes to online privacy laws, arguing that they will potentially kill their digital businesses... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The title of the first novel in Philip Pullman's new series The Book of Dust, a companion series to his famed His Dark Materials trilogy, has been revealed as La Belle Sauvage. The book, set for publication this autumn, will feature a new hero, 11-year-old Malcolm Polstead, and his daemon... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The president's latest budget proposal once again seeks to terminate the NEH, NEA, and virtually all federal library funding. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Friday, May 19:I came thisclose to being able to make this a Trump-free edition of your daily media scan, but then, well, see Nos. 5 and 6, below. (Sorry!) Anyway, let's get started ...1. More evidence that Jeff Bezos... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 2008 I published a short piece in Cabinet magazine on the fate of writer Thomas Browne’s skull, stolen from his coffin 158 years after his death. It caught the attention of an editor at a small press called Unbridled Books, Fred Ramey, who contacted me and asked if I would develop it into... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherishedBooks have always had a fetishistic quality to them, with their dusty secretiveness. Now, though, it feels like we’re living through a special moment in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling says she's 'thrilled' to pick up an outstanding contribution award to add to her collection of literary accolades. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Minette Walters has moved to Atlantic Books for her first full novel in more than a decade set in Black Death-infested medieval England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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City of Friends author claims Harry Potter creator’s ‘insatiable desire’ to air opinions on Twitter is threat to literary industryThe author Joanna Trollope has criticised JK Rowling, comparing the Harry Potter writer to Kim Kardashian because of her “insatiable” appetite for social... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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She's the daughter of a billionaire family who married into another billionaire family and she's made millions selling merchandise branded with her name. So what could Ivanka Trump teach America's millions of way-less-privileged working women? Trump's latest book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK-based magazine sees digital subscriptions rise 19 percent YoY in North America. The post The Economist Claims a Trump Bump appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors (SoA) is calling on the next government to offer "more than just words" to help support British authors and the culture sector. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The presidency of Donald Trump and its implications on a wide range of areas — feminism, race relations, arts, science, children and even writing itself — was a powerful theme during the first day of the 22nd annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday at USC. The two-day festival —... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus is to publish a book on Trump and "the birth of a new political language" on 4th May to mark Trump's 100th day in office as president of the United States. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The business of publishing and selling political-themed books moved front and center with the dawn of the Trump era in Washington. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Puffin is publishing a picture book by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani blogger who survived being shot by the Taliban for supporting girls' education in 2012 and went on to become the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Donald Trump loves Reasons to Vote Democrat, a volume of white space that follows a number of liberal spoofs with the same content. I prefer less vacant jokesIt’s a product worthy of Reggie Perrin’s Grot shop – the store opened to sell tat in David Nobbs’s magnificent satire of modern life: a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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