Meet Miniware, the eco-friendly (and sharply designed) alternative to plastic cups and dishes. My mother’s set of Corelle dishes has lasted her more than 22 years. We have a china set that’s been passed down generation by generation in my family. So why do we treat kids’ dinnerware like a disposable addition to our cabinets? That was the problem married couple Adam and Ai Su Bonnier wanted to tackle when they created Miniware, a collection of modernly designed, monochromatic, eco-friendly children’s dinnerware.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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Peter Pearson, executive director of The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, will retire December 31. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook will make changes to its news feed rankings, highlighting posts from friends and family over those from publishers and brand pages that users have "liked". Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is to give posts by users' friends and family greater prominence - a move that may challenge professional publishers. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has published for the first time a list of “News Feed Values,” Facebook’s secret sauce of what makes the algorithm tick. The social network is adjusting the recipe with a heavy helping of content from friends and family, likely an attempt to get people to share more, given that there... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's a fact: Most publishers rely on Facebook for a significant portion of their referral traffic. As such, they watch carefully as Facebook makes decisions about what kind of content to prioritize in the all-important News Feed product that is at the center of the social network.On Wednesday,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biteback is to publish the story of charity Kids Company by its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent booksellers called for more diversity in children’s books at an Inclusive Minds event, because their customers are asking for a greater range of ethnic diversity and family types in titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World Book Day director Kirsten Grant right has praised this year’s “phenomenal” event, which saw children’s book sales rise by 24.7% in WBD week, despite sales of the £1 WBD titles falling by 5.8% year on year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[Sponsored] Folio: and Wright's Media team up for a survey about publishers' willingness to embrace brand licensing as a revenue stream. The post An Untapped Well for Alternative Revenue appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's ebook subscription service Epic, based in Redwood City, Calif., is one company that is bucking the naysaying trends. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marianne Tatepo on the path to publishing for people from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s authors will be front and center on the Uptown Stage today, when back-to-back kids’ programming takes place. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is adding content for children aged nine-12 to its Fire for Kids Unlimited subscription service, including Harry Potter and Dennis the Menace books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new Digital Hall of this year's Bologna Children's Book Fair featured a score of digital service providers, companies offering software solutions, and independent producers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amulet Books has signed deals with four more international publishers for Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, bringing the number of international deals up to 48. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World of Warcraft has been around for more than a decade, fleshing out the world of Azeroth with new lands, stories and characters. Its subscriber base is slowly shrinking, but the Warcraft brand continues to evolve through games like Hearthstone and... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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During the busy years of building careers, setting aside time for friends can feel self-indulgent.Get Elisabeth McKetta and Cathy Doggett on the phone together and they can't stop laughing. Soon they are finishing each others' sentences about events that happened a decade ago. They met as young... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society is a collection of essays that was originally set to be published in May 2016The release date of the final book by the Italian novelist Umberto Eco, who died on 19 February, has been pushed forward from May 2016 to come out this weekend in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel “The Name of the Rose” became a global phenomenon, has died, his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed late Friday afternoon. He was 84. Eco was... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of adult trade books rose 2.9% in the first nine months of 2015, according to figures released by the AAP. Sales in the children’s/young adult segment for the nine-month period were down 7.4%, but slipped only 0.6% in September. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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