Canada's Big Fiction Prize Grows

The founder of Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize announced yesterday that the prize purse will double, to C$140,000. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Beard book up for Waterstones prize

A graphic novel about a man's beard is up against works by Booker winner Julian Barnes and best-selling author Kate Atkinson for the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big Ideas from Books in Browsers IV

Books in Browsers showcased several, new big ideas for digital publishing, including 'Network Tense,' 'Collaborative Architecture,' 'Book Hacks' and more. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon MatchBook makes a big push for print book buyers to go digital

Amazon MatchBook, which lets customers who've previously bought the print edition of a book from Amazon score a digital copy on the cheap, is now open for business. Months in the making, the new service is a bold plan by Amazon to convert the world's stacks and stacks of books into digital... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIDEO: Could bees book win top literary prize?

The winner of the UK's leading award for non-fiction books, the Samuel Johnson Prize, will be announced next week, here Nick Higham speaks to nominated author Dave Goulson Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Finding New Ways to Grow in Bargain Books

Over the past five years several bargain book wholesalers have closed their doors, along with one of their largest customers: Borders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First book prize for Edinburgh author

Edinburgh author Angela Jackson is named the winner of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shortlist revealed for 2013 T S Eliot Prize

The shortlist for the £15,000 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry has been revealed, with publishers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Has Big Sales Gain, Small Loss

Total revenue at Amazon increased 24%, to $17.09 billion, in the third quarter of 2013 while its operating loss was $25 million, down from $28 million in the third quarter of 2012. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roald Dahl Funny Prize shortlists revealed

Nosy Crow and Random House Children’s Publishers have three titles apiece on the Roald Dahl... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MacGregor, Phillips and McCrum to judge 2014 Orwell Prize

Broadcasters Sue MacGregor and Trevor Phillips and Robert McCrum, associate editor of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Donaldson on book prize shortlist

Superworm, Julia Donaldson's tale of a resourceful worm and The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey's novel about an alien invasion, are among the 10 books shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spain’s Clara Sánchez wins €601,000 Planeta Prize

Spanish author Clara Sánchez has won the 2013 Planeta Prize for her novel El cielo ha vuelto, a book about the nature of our economic and political environment. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton targets literary sexism

The 28-year-old novelist from New Zealand, the youngest ever to win the prize, addressed the critics who have approached her complex novel with trite assumptions about gender.Running on a mere 2½ hours of sleep and exactly 12 hours after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel “The... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rowan Williams to judge Pushkin House Russian Book Prize

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booker Prize winner: Murder mystery wins prestigious award

Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton wrote an 832-page murder mystery set in Catton's homeland, New Zealand. This is the last year that the Man Booker Prize will be open only to writers from the former British Empire. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Kiwi Twin Peaks” Wins 2013 Man Booker Prize

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, at the age of just 28, has become the younger ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Luminaries." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eleanor Catton's 'The Luminaries' wins 2013 Man Booker Prize

Eleanor Catton took the 2013 Man Booker Prize for "The Luminaries" at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night.This post has been updated. Please see note at bottom for details. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big Data Added $156 Billion in Revenue to Economy Last Year [Updated]

Responding to growing Washington attacks on data brokers, the Direct Marketing Association is mounting its biggest defense by unveiling a new study Monday during its annual conference in Chicago. The study quantifies how much of the economy is driven by companies that use consumer-level data to... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 reasons Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (+video)

Merit trumped politics this year when modest, retiring, universally admired Canadian author Alice Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature.  Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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