Analysis of more than 2m titles shows that on average, male authors’ work is strikingly better valuedA study of more than 2m books has revealed that titles by female authors are on average sold at just over half the price of those written by men. The research, by sociologist Dana Beth Weinberg and mathematician Adam Kapelner of Queens College-CUNY, looked titles published in North America between 2002 and 2012. The authors analysed the gender of each author by matching names to lists of male and female names, and cross-referenced with information about price, genre and publication. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tuesday, April 12, at #LBF16 in Olympia London's National Hall Gallery: "Women in Comics: Is the Graphic Novel Industry Failing To Recognise Female Creators?" The post At London Book Fair: The Unfunny Plight of Women in Comics appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winners of the 2016 Leipzig Book Fair Prize were announced from a pool of over 400 new titles and a shortlist dominated, once again, by men. The post Leipzig Book Fair Prize: Where Are the Women? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Warner Cable is floating a proposal designed to end the standoff over distribution of the sports channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers to allow legions of Southern California baseball fans to enjoy Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully's final season in the broadcast booth.Time Warner Cable... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A record 57% of marketers and agencies are allocating 20% or more of budgets to digital advertising, including 23% who earmark more than half of their spending for digital, according to the most recent in a series of studies published by RBC Capital Markets in partnership with Ad Age. Two... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children prefer print books to ebooks for both reading for pleasure and reading for education, a study by reading charity BookTrust has found. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Survey of workforce at 34 book publishers and eight review journals in US reveals 79% of staff are white and 78% female – with UK numbers still unmonitoredMan Booker winner Marlon James: ‘Writers of colour pander to the white woman’A survey of American publishing has found that it is blindingly... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Slate survey of US titles published last year shows overwhelming bias towards male historians and subjects – with a similar picture emerging in the UKAmerican popular history is a “male preserve”, according to new research from the US online journal Slate, with three-quarters of works published... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Motorcycle magazine American Iron hopes to buck newsstand trends by selling more copies at a lower price. The post Why One Enthusiast Publisher Is Gambling on a Lower Cover Price appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Airbnb hosts were less inclined to book renters with stereotypically African-American names, Harvard Business School researchers found.A new study from Harvard Business School finds that Airbnb hosts are more likely to book reservations with users who have "distinctly white" names, according to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only 25% of library patrons borrowed an ebook in the past year, according to the latest BISG survey. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 1TB Surface Book Microsoft teased at the laptop’s reveal is finally available for preorder, and boy, it’s expensive. For $3,200, the highest-end Surface Book packs an Intel Core i7 processor—Microsoft previously said the specific model would be the i7-6600U, a 2.6GHz dual-core processor with... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At today's event in New York, Microsoft put on an impressive show. We were -- ironically -- expecting some surprises, and the announcement of the Surface Book meant we weren't disappointed; this is, after all, "the ultimate laptop". The looks are striking. The specs are impressive. The price tag... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Summary judgment motions were filed last week in a case in which three defunct ebook retailers claim that Apple's 2010 price-fixing conspiracy forced them out of business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Our ongoing series on illustrated book publishing in the US looks at the changing retail landscape for specialty and illustrated titles. The post Finding the Consumer for US Illustrated Books (Part 3) appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A federal appeals court stood by a 2013 decision that found the tech giant guilty of fixing ebook prices with publishers.Apple's last-ditch attempt to avoid paying $450 million to ebook buyers was just quashed, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After attending a panel discussion on 'The Crisis of American Fiction,' in which an all-male panel discussed only male authors for an entire hour, author Kamila Shamsie began to research the dearth of women in publishing and literary fiction. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After analyzing 15 years' worth of top literary prize winners, Nicola Griffith notes that books about women rarely win. The post Books About Women Rarely Win Top Prizes appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Literacy Trust report also says girls continue to outpace boys in their enthusiasm for reading for pleasureGirls have more firmly embraced digital literacy and formats such as Facebook, email and text message, while boys are more comfortable with traditional printed media such as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook study considered the political leanings of news posts by US users before determining which posts were reached via the site’s social algorithmsThe algorithms used by Facebook to filter news posts have an effect on the information seen by users – but not nearly as much as the choices made... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Karen Joy Fowler's We are All Completely Besides Ourselves and David Nicholls' Us are the next two books to be selected for the ITV Loose Women Book Club. The recently-launched book club called Loose Books, sees a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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