Sphere has announced that actor Allan Corduner will narrate the audiobook of Parting Words by 100-year-old human rights lawyer Benjamin Ferencz. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 03:14:54 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#narrate audiobook
#parting words
#audiobook
Previewing the audiobook track at the FutureBook conference, we look at sales statistics and predictions from Michele Cobb at the Audio Publishers Association. The post Golden Headsets: Audiobooks’ Growth Is Music to Publishers’ Ears appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#futurebook conference
The rights business is about relationships…and digital tools, say rights experts Kris Kliemann and Jane Tappuni. Here are their top ten tips for publishing rights professionals. The post Ten Rights Hacks: Actionable Advice From Two Key Players appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#key players
#rights business
#digital tools
"Post-truth" has been declared 2016's international word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Penguin Random House Ireland is launching a three-year partnership with creative writing organisation Fighting Words to promote equal opportunities for young people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#prh ireland
#three-year partnership
To encourage parents and kids to read together, Apple has debuted a new app for tvOS. The iBooks StoryTime app features "Read-Aloud" tool that narrates books and flips pages automatically. For the times when you'd rather read to your child yourself,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#apple tv
Jenny Geras, currently publishing director of Arrow at Cornerstone, has been appointed to build a new commercial fiction team at Bookouture. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#jenny geras
Bonnier Zaffre has acquired all publishing and broadcasting rights to The Mayfly, an “electrifying" debut by James Hazel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bonnier zaffre
A summer of Jojo Moyes has given way to an autumn of Paula Hawkins, as The Girl on the Train takes the number one spot again. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#wrong side
#jojo moyes
#paula hawkins
#train takes
Let the pros show you how to have the toughest talks. Let the pros show you how to have the toughest talks.Everyone does "difficult conversations" differently. But no matter your approach, the challenge is the same: sorting out really touchy issues while sidestepping the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book editor
Prince performing in 2013. Prince’s songwriting rights are being sold to the Universal Music Publishing Group for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2016-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#wider audience
HarperCollins has snapped up world English rights to M., the "extraordinary" debut from Peng Shepherd. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Between client meetings, brainstorm sessions and pitch preparations, time is sparse for chief creative officers, but that doesn't mean they're too busy to energize their creative juices by squeezing in reading time. Check out what books (or audiobooks), in genres from mystery and thriller to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#reading time
#spare time
Octopus imprint Mitchell Beazley has signed the first title from the founders of craft beer brand BrewDog as well as a food book from BBC presenter James Wong. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#food book
The movement to hold Tuesday rights meetings on the Frankfurt Book Fair fairgrounds gains traction as fewer literary agents flock to the ‘Hof’ hotels. The post Tuesday Rights Trade Shifts from Hofs to LitAg appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#litag appeared
A Shakespeare retelling, a dramatic nonfiction story from Mali, and two celebrity chef memoirs are among the season's new audiobook releases. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Penguin Random House Children’s has pre-empted the world rights to Twelve Nights, the debut children’s book by Andrew Zurcher, director of studies in English at Queen’s College Cambridge. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#prh children
#world rights
#debut children
A new bursary of £10,000 is to be awarded from the Deborah Rogers Foundation, targeting either a publishing rights professional or a literary agent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#literary agent
Russia's Eksmo-owned LitRes announces its goal to boost its current 7,000 audiobooks on offer to 50,000 of them—in five years. The post LitRes Chief Has Goal of Dominating Russian Audiobook Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Although open to men as well as women, the Jefferis Award has yet to go to a male writer. And some Hachette Audio YA titles have Booktrack scores. The post International Industry Notes: Australia’s Jefferis Shortlist, Hachette Audio’s Audiobook Soundtracks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hachette audio
#male writer
A posthumous novel by Roberto Bolaño and new works by Guatemala’s Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Mexicans Mario Bellatin and Laia Jufresa are among Frankfurt’s Latin American rights harvest. It’s post-“boom” in Latin America’s literary output, as agent Cristóbel Pera puts it: powerful new voices breaking... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roberto bolao
#latin america
#rights action