Karla, a struggling stand-up comic, is furiously jotting in her notebook while trying out different versions of a new routine. “I’ve been single for so long, I’ve started having sex dreams about my vibrator.” Would wet dreams, she wonders, be funnier? Wait, women don’t even have wet dreams. If... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Over the past couple of years, Australia has hatched a raft of authors whose work is selling around the globe. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The tech pioneer, CEO of publishing company O’Reilly Media, says his industry will fail unless the web giants start putting consumers ahead of shareholdersTim O’Reilly believes we need to have a reset. This means more coming from him than it does from most people. The 63-year-old CEO, born in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Ivana Trump announced in the spring that she was writing a memoir about motherhood, many people—and surely the book’s publisher—hoped that she would use the book to settle scores, or at least drop a few new juicy details about her marriage to the future president of the United States. In... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2017-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired a popular science book about cancer by geneticist and science writer Kat Arney. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World Book Day director Kirsten Grant says it is imperative the organisation represents its audience in its books and activity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cassell Illustrated, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired the official, inside story of the Sex Pistols' "whirlwind year" of 1977, as told by the Sex Pistols and their collaborators. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Not even the release of Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, could end what is now a monthlong sales slide. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s What Happened has sold 300,000 copies across all formats in its first week, according to publisher Simon & Schuster, claiming the US number one chart spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hillary Clinton's 'What Happened' sold more than 300,000 copies across all formats its first week on sale, publisher Simon & Schuster reported. Over half of those sales were hardcovers, with S&S selling 167,000 print copies. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From its launch in 2001, Wikipedia—the Internet’s hugely popular, user-created free encyclopedia—was viewed with suspicion by reference publishers and librarians. But today, many publishers and librarians today are collaborating with Wikipedia, seeing it not as a threat, but as an ally that can... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hundreds of damning verdicts on memoir of 2016 presidential race, posted within hours of publication, have been removed by the online booksellerHundreds of one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s memoir What Happened, which appeared online within hours of the 512-page book’s publication, have been... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yiddish expert Jeremy Dauber examines the nature of Jewish humor and its impact on Jewish history and culture, from rabbinic jokes in the Talmud to Jerry Seinfeld. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After hovering in the top five for the previous fortnight, Ruth Hogan's The Keeper of Lost Things has vaulted four spots to claim her first pole position on the Weekly E-Book Ranking. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clinton's new book is a personal memoir about her campaign as well as a 'cautionary tale' about Russian interference in the election. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Don't you want to know what's new online and in Los Angeles in the world of books? Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A novelist combining critical and commercial acclaim, Nicole Krauss turns her attention to a writer, named Nicole, who suffers writer’s block. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former FBI director, sacked in wake of clash with the US president, promises insights into the ‘highest-stakes situations’ of his careerThe former FBI director James Comey has signed a $2m (£1.5m) deal for a book about leadership and decision-making that will draw on his career in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nikky Ward, currently senior sales executive at Atlantic, is to join Head of Zeus as digital sales manager. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze is publishing Things I Have Drawn: At the Zoo by Instagram father-and-son trio, Tom, Dom and Al Curtis, in which kids' drawings are "hilariously brought to life". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A version of this article was originally published by the Trace, a nonprofit news organization covering guns in America. Sign up for the newsletter, or follow the Trace on Facebook or Twitter. Continue reading at Slate
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