Closures and lay-offs for France Loisirs

The France Loisirs book club and its four service subsidiaries will close 36 of its 200 retail outlets and lay off 450 of its 1,350 staff in France. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Phoenix digital marketing firm lays off 100 as it discontinues direct sales

Phoenix-based digital marketing firm G/O Digital has laid off less than 100 employees today as it discontinued its direct sales business unit. G/O Digital CEO Tim Fagan said his company, which used to be part of Gannett Publishing Services and now is part of McLean, Virginia-based Tegna Inc.,... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fire forces closure of a Waterstones Exeter branch

A Waterstones branch in Exeter has been forced to close after a blaze that erupted in the area early this morning. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier lays out expansion plans

Bonnier Books c.e.o. Jacob Dalborg has restated the company’s plans to grow and “grow fast” in English-language regions, but said that it was taking a long-term view of the market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Publisher Woven Digital Lays Off Just Under 20

Woven Digital, which publishes millennial-focused brands such as BroBible and Uproxx, recently laid off just under 20 employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the California-based company.Most of those affected worked for HitFix, an entertainment news site acquired by Woven in... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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France ebooks drop predicted

E-book sales rose to 5% from 4% of French publishers’ turnover last year, but are expected to fall sharply as a share of the total by 2020, according to the third annual survey carried out by consultants KPMG.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Relying on Facebook and Google Comes With Trade-Offs for Brands

  brightcove.createExperiences(); COLOGNE, Germany—While Facebook and Google are dominating digital ad budgets (and increasingly, consumers' time) because they give marketers sophisticated and granular targeting, advertisers are getting squeezed with the amount of data that the... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Misuse' forces closure of Oxford Dictionaries survey

Oxford Dictionaries has closed its survey for the least popular English word a day after it was launched due to “severe misuse” of the feature. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Film deal for Frances Hardinge novel

Catalyst Global Media has optioned the film and TV rights to Cuckoo Song by YA author Frances Hardinge. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Global publishing chiefs condemn closure of Turkish presses

Chief executives from leading publishing houses around the world, including Markus Dohle of Penguin Random House, Carolyn Reidy of Simon & Schuster and Arnaud Nourry of Hachette Livre, have said they are "deeply concerned" about the closure of 29 publishing houses in Turkey and called on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK writer Helen Gradwell lay dead at home for four months before body found

Helen Gradwell lay dead on her floor for four months – with a book deal sitting unopened on her doorstep. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. to Lay Off Employees in Reorganization

Magazine and digital publisher Time Inc. plans to lay off a number of employees as part of a organizational restructuring, a spokeswoman confirmed to Ad Age on Wednesday. She declined to discuss how many people will lose their jobs, but multiple reports put the number around 110."Over the last... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Free speech groups condemn Turkey's closure of 29 publishers after failed coup

Organisations including PEN International have spoken out about the ‘grave impact on democracy’ caused by major crackdown on book tradeThe closure of 29 publishers by the Turkish government has been condemned by the international publishing community, which described the move as outrageous and... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yellow Jersey buys Tour de France 'nonsense guide'

Yellow Jersey has acquired Velosaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France by ITV Tour de France commentator and cycling writer Ned Boulting. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Swindon Council urged to rethink 'severe' library closures

Swindon Council’s plans to close 11 libraries “will cause long-term damage" to the futures of constituents, Nick Poole c.e.o. of libraries body CILIP has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Coe honoured by France

Jonathan Coe has been awarded prestigious French honour Officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (The Order of Arts and Letters) from the French Ambassador, who named him "France’s favourite British writer". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frances Lincoln teams up with Natural History Museum

Quarto imprint Frances Lincoln Children’s Books and London’s Natural History Museum are launching a publishing partnership to create 10 non-fiction titles per year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Tale of Two Cultures: Children's Publishing in France and America

French and American children's book publishers gathered on June 9 at the French Embassy in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Observer and i are biggest gainers after Independent's closure

Sunday paper and cut-price paper both boost their sales by more than 5% in AprilThe Observer and i have proved to be the biggest beneficiaries of the closure of the print editions of the Independent, with sales rising by more than 5% in April.Guardian Media Group’s Sunday paper boosted sales by... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet to petition Sadiq Khan over library closures

South London poet Chrissie Gittins is to petition London Mayor Sadiq Khan (pictured) about the future of Lewisham's library services. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MP's campaign against Lancashire library closures

A Lancashire MP has criticised plans to close 29 libraries in the region and is launching a petition to get the council to “seriously consider” other alternatives. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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