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'
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Excerpted from Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves by Adam Hochschild. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press has chosen hashtag as its ‘children’s word of the year’ because of its significant use in the 500 Words 2015 competition. The 500 Words competition was launched by presenter Chris Evans on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show in 2011, and is for stories of 500 words or less by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Responding to feedback from its most active users, PubMatch, the online rights management and promotion platform, is opening up access to its complete set of features to all users. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers get a bad reputation for their mobile ads, which often intrude on or confuse the user. But some get it right, say agencies. BuzzFeed's ads mirror the site's shareable editorial content. Mashable, ESPN and NY magazine strike a good balance of content to ad space. The Weather Company... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan is the first Big Five publisher to get on the hoopla platform, but officials say talks are underway with others, and more announcements are expected soon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Berlin-based Suhrkamp publishing house actively manages 50,000 rights contracts as part of its mission to sustain and spread Germany's literary patrimony. The post Germany’s Suhrkamp: Rights Management as a Mission appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yes, Charlie Hebdo has published offensive cartoons. But its freedom of expression award for courage from the PEN writers’ association is surely meritedIf you thought that the debate following the Charlie Hebdo killings had exhausted the media and literary world’s reserves of feverish... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Book Group USA and the Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson have engaged lawyers to pursue royalty payments owed to the author by Hesperus Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon will narrate the audio edition of Harper Lee's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman. The audiobook will be published by Random House Audiobooks on 14th July, alongside the print edition, published in the UK by William Heinemann. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over 7,000 people have volunteered to donate one of a shortlist of 20 books to the 35% of the population who are not regular readersA quarter of a million books are due to find new homes tonight, as thousands of book-lovers hit the streets to give away their favourite titles as part of World... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House will offer its audiobooks, though not its ebook titles, via the Scribd subscription service. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this point, it's almost illegal if you don't describe Scribd as the Netflix of reading, which has just signed a new audiobook deal with Penguin Random House. The agreement gives the service access to 9,000 of the super publisher's library, includi... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The platform approach has become a favorite tactic of publishers in the quest for scale. But while multi-title publishers Time Inc. and Condé Nast are cautiously rolling out platforms at an individual brand level, Hearst is taking a shortcut to scale. Hearst has created a centralized contributor... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Film rights for Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape) have been acquired by actress Lena Headey, who stars in the hugely successful television series “Game of Thrones”. The deal was brokered by Emily Hayward-Whitlock at Knight Hall Agency Ltd on behalf of Jessica Woollard at The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Have you scratched your head wondering why Apple would put audiobooks in iOS' music player, rather than... y'know, a book app? So has Apple. Besides a redesigned music app, the early iOS 8.4 beta also moves audiobooks into iBooks, where they arguably... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The danger of a herd mentality in tech hack circles is real, including missing out on mainstream products, but a nose for interesting news goes beyond analyticsTechnology journalism – and US technology journalism in particular – is getting a roasting every bit as stinging as Justin Bieber’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The readiness of juries to defend public interest journalism is good news. But the press should be more transparent about payments to sources for storiesThe case of the Sun journalists charged with paying public officials for information has been a troubling one in many respects. It is, we... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a Publishers Weekly event in NYC, rights directors and agents discussed how automation and standards would improve the book rights business. The post To Automate or Not to Automate the Rights Business? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although the economics of operating an independent bookstore have improved since the end of the Great Recession, running a new store still poses challenges. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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