There’s something about ink, paper and the printing press that has always bothered tyrants and those afraid of ideas.Was there a single old hand in the world of magazines who didn’t read the stories about the demand for copies of the post-massacre edition of Charlie Hebdo, raise their eyebrows at the 5m-plus print run it took to eventually satisfy that demand and wonder at the people even in this country who were apparently going out of their way to make sure they got hold of a copy, without thinking to themselves, “that is a terrible price to pay for record sales figures”?I haven’t heard anybody say it but I can’t have been the only one who thought it. It is one of the great ironies of print publishing that surges in demand always appear without warning and always catch publishers unprepared to take advantage of them. This was the grimly ironic exception. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reynolds and Jason Griffin have created a masterful collage of words and art that search for hope amid difficult times. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-01-11 15:00:38 UTC ]
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Staff at independent comics and graphic novel publisher Image Comics voted January 6 to certify union representation by a vote of 7-2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
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There is an interesting moment during the staging of Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 06:09:01 UTC ]
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For those counting, there is an extra issue of The Bookseller this year. And it’s a bumper one, too. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 07:30:58 UTC ]
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You can’t beat Holmes for the holidays. Also, Victorian Christmas ghost stories for those cozy nights by the fire. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving force behind November’s conversation was Gendry-Kim’s second... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-12-13 09:49:57 UTC ]
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Seven Dials has acquired a "searing account" of a mother's relentless fight for justice for her son who was murdered by serial killer Stephen Port. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-10 05:05:45 UTC ]
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Little A, the literary fiction and non-fiction imprint of Amazon Publishing, has acquired a "powerful" memoir by Paul Burston, founder of the Polari Prize, the UK’s first and largest LGBTQ+ book award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-09 09:18:56 UTC ]
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The young poet delivers another stirring critique of modern America in a book that is at once pointed and hopeful. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-07 14:00:00 UTC ]
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“Crime and Punishment” was a turning point for the Russian writer — and for literature. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite a number of concerns, many of the more than three dozen indies contacted by PW posted strong Thanksgiving weekend sales increases compared with 2019 and 2020, and even booksellers whose stores saw declines said they were cautiously optimistic about the weeks ahead. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Longtime editor and publishing executive Charlie Conrad died on November 21. He was 61. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
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These new books draw back the curtain to depict the individuals pulling the levers at some of the past century’s most powerful organizations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Charlie Jane Anders discusses the coming-of-age stories that shaped her award-winning science fiction and helped her confront the world in front of her. The post The Coming-of-Age Stories That Made Charlie Jane Anders appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2021-11-18 21:30:07 UTC ]
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Legend Press has landed The Tin Nose Shop, an “incredibly powerful” First World War novel by Don J Snyder. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 06:14:29 UTC ]
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Image Comics has declined a request by union organizers to voluntarily recognize Comic Book Workers United, an effort to unionize the independent comics publisher, and has moved to hold a vote to determine whether the CBWU will represent eligible Image staff. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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As concerns about paper shortages continue, one press has said it will have to wait until the New Year if it wants to reprint popular titles through some European firms. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 02:54:26 UTC ]
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Benjamin Zephaniah is writing a “powerfully moving” picture book about the voyage of "HMT Empire Windrush" to be published by Scholastic UK in April 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 10:30:14 UTC ]
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Steven Pinker offers hope that rationality can return to personal and civic life. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
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At Time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers discusses his newest novel, Bewilderment, which is set during a period that resembles our own—but not quite. ” I was thinking a little bit along the lines of the form that science fiction writers like to call the ‘near-term future,'” Powers... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2021-09-29 20:30:41 UTC ]
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