Belarus's Januškevič Publishing House Receives 2024 AAP Freedom to Publish Award

The Association of American Publishers has awarded the Belarusian-language house, publishing in effective exile from Poland, with its annual honor recognizing "courage and fortitude" in defense of the freedom of expression. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-27 04:00:00 UTC ]

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100 Book Covers for Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was published on May 14, 1925 by Hogarth Press, the publishing house Woolf ran with her husband, Leonard Woolf. The original cover was created by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell, who would design a total 0f 38 books for the press. Famously, Bell’s designs were... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2025-05-14 08:59:26 UTC ]
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2025 British Book Awards: Margaret Atwood Wins the Freedom to Publish Award

The trade honors announced at the 35th edition of the British Book Awards name Bloomsbury and Nosy Crow top publishers. The post 2025 British Book Awards: Margaret Atwood Wins the Freedom to Publish Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2025-05-13 04:39:29 UTC ]
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Publishing Industry Sales Dipped in February

Total book sales fell 1.9% in February for the 1,325 publishers that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program. Sales in the adult trade and children’s/young adult segments were down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Prepare for Battle with Big Tech Over AI

Speakers at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on May 8 agreed that preventing tech companies from pirating copyrighted material to train AI is essential to the industry’s future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Prepare for Battle with Big Tech Over AI

Speakers at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on May 8 agreed that preventing tech companies from using copyrighted material to train AI is essential to the industry’s future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A cult clothier and iconic publishing house join forces to fight book bans

Online Ceramics and Penguin Random House team up against the ultimate culture killers. Reading just got a whole lot cooler. Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2025-04-24 09:00:00 UTC ]
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AAP Announces 2025 Hawkins, PROSE Award Winners

Ieva Jusionyte’s Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border, published by University of California Press, took home the top prize at the Association of American Publishers’ 2025 PROSE Awards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Sales Were Sluggish in January

Sales of adult fiction fell 5.7% in the month—the main factor in driving down total sales by 0.7% at the companies that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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AAP Announces 2025 Prose Award Category Winners

The Association of American Publishers has announced the 37 category winners for the 49th annual PROSE Awards honoring professional and scholarly works published in 2024. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Strong Sales of Adult Fiction and Religion Books Continued in November

Sales at publishers that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program rose 10.3% in November, led by a 19.3% increase in adult fiction and a 24.6% gain in sales of religious books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Why It’s Community Above All Else for Me

When I was 23, my best friend from college invited me to a networking mixer at the headquarters of a top publishing house in New York City. I was in graduate school at The New School at the time, and already working on the manuscript of what would become my first book, Born to Be […] The post... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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AAP September StatShot: US Book Market Overall Up 2.4 Percent

Year-to-date, the Association of American Publishers' StatShot report for September shows the United States' book industry up 7 percent. The post AAP September StatShot: US Book Market Overall Up 2.4 Percent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-11-26 16:15:42 UTC ]
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Book Publishing Sales Stayed Hot in August

In the adult trade segment, total sales were up nearly 12% for the month over 2023 at publishers that report to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot Program. Religious presses were up a hefty 47.4%, and digital audio showed a 38.8% increase. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House amends its copyright rules to protect authors from AI

Artificial intelligence makers have faced a mountain of criticism for borrowing from the work of others to train its models. Now the world’s largest publishing house is taking steps to ensure its authors don’t have their work plagiarized in the name of progress. The Bookseller reports that... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2024-10-18 21:04:36 UTC ]
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