A campaign to name a character in the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust series after one of the Grenfell Tower fire’s young victims has helped raise more than £17,000 in just over 16 hours. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former rivals to star in Leveson-style inquiry into mogul’s near-monopoly of the country’s mediaIn high public office, both men lived and died at the word of the world’s most influential media mogul, Rupert Murdoch. But now two former Australian prime ministers are at the vanguard of a campaign... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-22 07:30:15 UTC ]
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A “seismic shift” to online shopping during the pandemic has fuelled a “crazy” market for acquisitions of big names, HarperCollins UK c.e.o. Charlie Redmayne has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 23:24:16 UTC ]
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David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) has swung into a second week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 15:53:00 UTC ]
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A sale of the venerable publisher of Stephen King and Hillary Clinton could fetch $1.7 billion and rev up consolidation in book publishing. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-11-17 08:28:15 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch's media giant News Corp has made a bid for Simon & Schuster, according to a report in the New York Times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 08:28:03 UTC ]
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Church Publishing Inc., the publisher of official resources for the Episcopal Church, announced the hiring of Airié Stuart as its senior v-p and publisher. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Douglas Stuart's Booker-shortlisted novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has been named Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 08:27:33 UTC ]
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Amazon may not be in it for the long term but its investment in Autumn Nations Cup is likely to prompt interest from othersThere has been little cheer for unions and clubs this year as restrictions imposed by the pandemic have reduced cash flow to a trickle, prompted wage cuts and led to a run... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-12 19:00:30 UTC ]
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Debi Chirichella was named president of Hearst Magazines today, after serving in the role in an interim capacity for a little over three months. Before she was named acting president in July, she had been executive vice president and chief financial officer. Chirichella joined the company in... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-11-11 20:13:08 UTC ]
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been crowned the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun (HarperCollins). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 09:24:21 UTC ]
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According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017Two years after the stark revelation that only 1% of British children’s books featured a main character who was black, Asian or minority ethnic, the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-11 00:01:23 UTC ]
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David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) has gone straight to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with 89,558 copies sold. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 00:49:03 UTC ]
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Chriscynethia Floyd, a former executive at Simon & Schuster and David C Cook, has been hired as v-p and publisher of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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"They'd put a big red plastic bag over the entire door, and all his food trays were on the floor outside. And then the nurses started drawing straws to choose who would have to go in there and check on him.” On Zoom, Ruth Coker Burks is reliving the moment in 1984 when, while visiting a friend... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 02:29:37 UTC ]
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The quintet of books named to the UK Young Writer of the Year award shortlist this year includes memoir, novels, and poetry collections. The post The UK’s Young Writer Award Names Its 2020 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-06 21:59:14 UTC ]
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Yang’s debut novel owes a debt to Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth,” though Ivy Lin is no Lily Bart. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-05 16:42:29 UTC ]
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Italy's bookstores are allowed to operate amid COVID-19 restrictions, and Guadalajara becomes UNESCO's World Book Capital for 2022. The post Industry Notes: Italian Bookstores Stay Open, Guadalajara Named World Book Capital appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-04 20:25:38 UTC ]
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One reader shares her thoughts on reading manga as an exercise in feeling by proxy and finding emotional catharsis in their character arcs. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-10-29 10:39:00 UTC ]
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The Panorama Project, the OverDrive-funded cross-industry initiative devoted to “data-informed insights on public libraries’ role in the publishing ecosystem” has announced the appointment of Daniel Albohn as the new Project Lead, replacing Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, who has taken a full-time... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Christian Publishing announced the hiring of Nekasha Pratt as senior director of marketing at Thomas Nelson and Zondervan Fiction. Additionally, the publisher announced the promotions of four existing staff members to director roles, including Brad Hill, Mark Glesne, Stephanie... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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