Cipher Press has acquired Nat Reeve's "extraordinary, ambitious" historical debut Nettleblack and its sequel in a two-book deal. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The shock of the new has given way to the comfort of the old in this year's bestseller list, with plenty of football and blokey chefsSee the chart in fullTwo female newcomers dominated the all‑year bestsellers list at this point last year. EL James (Fifty Shades of Grey) and Suzanne Collins (The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Headline) has been voted Specsavers Book of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clement Clarke Moore's famous holiday poem re-imagined by a book publisher on a bit of a bender. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German booksellers are facing a nail-biting finish to the holiday season. With end November sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta is bringing forward to publication of Masha Gessen's Words Will Break Cement: The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A sinking ship of a drama that managed to be neither monstrous nor deep"Thar she blows!" said one of the crew as a whale came to the surface. The cetacean wasn't the only thing blowing heavily in The Whale (BBC1), a 90-minute dramatisation of the sinking of the Essex, a Nantucket whaler, by a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A publisher continues to hand-bind and hand-sew books that also function as works of art. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The fight goes on: RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn has appealed final approval of the Macmillan and Penguin ebook settlements to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Infographics both retro and modern, futuristic transportation, and cartoons of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts are all featured inside these 10 gems of design books.No matter how convenient Kindles are, they will never do justice to beautifully printed, full-color art and design books. (And... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even as China's leaders promise a more liberal future for the country, they are suppressing those who would tell the truthThe year began with journalists from China's Southern Weekly striking because their paper had spiked a leader calling for constitutional protections for individual liberty at... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On behalf of the other 99.9% of books published this year that didn't make the consensus top ten, tell us what were your favorite sleeper best books of 2013? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s not every day that a book from a scholarly press inspires a song and gets its own music video, but that’s what the first book released by the University of Regina Press in Saskatchewan, Canada, has done this fall. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Coker of Smashwords, which recently inked a major content deal with Scribd, weighs in on how the all-you-can-read model changes the way we read, how authors make creative choices, and how everyone gets paid.Is a "Netflix for ebooks" nearing viability? Yesterday, Smashwords, the largest... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The man responsible for initiating the government's favoured form of press regulation has revealed that he is still awaiting the official green light to kick start the process.Sir David Normington, the commissioner for public appointments (CPA), has also cast light on the part politicians will... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Culture secretary says presence of campaign group at party negotiations was a 'hijacking of government business'The culture secretary Maria Miller has described campaigning group Hacked Off's involvement in political negotiations over press regulation as "quite a destructive force" in the eyes... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers may think a cute animal on the cover is what sells in the supermarket, but ask around online and those who buy pet books will tell you otherwiseThe moment of receiving your first book jacket is one that every author remembers. I was so excited when I got mine – a jacket, for a book,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller's consumer sister site We Love This Book is inviting book-lovers to test their... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amid a general book market decline, the Polish Chamber of Books (PIK) has drafted a bill which is set to introduce fixed prices for new book releases for 18 months after publication. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Armed with a new name, five employees and $5.3 million in financing, Wilmington-based e-Book subscription service Entitle is open for business this week. Founder Bryan Batten, who left a career in pharma sales to jump off the startup ledge, calls the service “a hybrid of Netflix and a book... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the GBO's recent translator workshop, two US book editors and translator Susan Bernofksy shared techniques and tips for literary translators. Here's what they said. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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