Censorship Is a Hammer Looking for a Nail: PW Talks with Sam Helmick

The community and access coordinator at the Iowa City Public Library discusses their experience on the front lines of one of the nation’s most intense legal and legislative battles over the freedom to read and the very real impact book banning campaigns have on the LGBTQ community. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Helen Dunmore to write for Hammer

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 21/04/2011 - 10:29 Random House imprint Hammer has acquired the latest title by Orange-prize winner Helen Dunmore, in a special project for the Penguin author. Century and Arrow publisher Kate Elton bought UK and Commonwealth rights to The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'PW' to Do Pre-ALA Supplement

For the first time, PW will publish a special supplement ahead of this year's American Library Association's annual conference set for June 23-28 in New Orleans. The pre-ALA issue will be published May 30 and will include features on library funding, the ebook loan controversy and an overview of... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Peek at the March 28 'PW'

In the News section of Monday's issue, there are items on total sales at the nation’s three largest bookstore chains; and Warner Brothers’s takeover of DC Comics’s licensed publishing. The Retailing page offers a look at Chicagoland’s bookselling landscape, which has been hit hard by Borders’s... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'PW' to Host Truth in Nonfiction Panel

PW will host its first breakfast panel of the year February 22 in New York City, titled Truth in Nonfiction: What Is the Publishers Responsibility? The panel will address the fact that over the years, there have been many nonfiction books that have proved to be partly or wholly fabricated. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers Are Asked Not to Talk About Author of O

Simon & Schuster requested that journalists and other writers not comment if asked whether they were responsible for the novel O, about a fictional 2012 presidential campaign. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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