E L James helps raise funds for flood-hit cricket club

Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James is helping to raise funds for a flood-hit cricket club, that has "literally disappeared under the same deluge" as flooded bookshop Book Case, in Hebden Bridge. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Frank Bidart, journalist James Wolcott take PEN Literary Awards

Bidart, Wolcott, and playwright David Rabe are among the recipients of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lagardere reports hit to Hachette US ebook sales

Hachette Book Group's ebook sales declined in the first half of 2014, and the impact of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VenueBook's special event today: Seed funding

The industry of business events is a veritable growth machine, with publishers, service providers and just about everybody else seeing live get-togethers as moneymakers and can't-miss marketing vehicles. But the details of event planning can be an analogue mess, and a web software startup... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mobile ad success helps Facebook deliver stunning Q2 results

Facebook has smashed all estimates in its earnings and revenue report this week, largely thanks to its robust mobile ad business. The results slapped down any niggling doubts among critics about the social network's ability to transform itself from a simple communication website to a... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ACE funding boost for Penned in the Margins

The future is bright for Penned in the Margins, the literary arts producer and independent... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Chuck Palahniuk reveals more details about his 'Fight Club' sequel

Palahniuk is writing a sequel to his 1996 novel that will be in graphic novel form and released in 10 parts. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Native-Ad Metrics Startup SimpleReach Raises $9 Million

SimpleReach, a company that provides publishers like The New York Times and Forbes with measurement and distribution tools for their native ad programs, has raised $9 million in its first big round of financing, the company said Tuesday. With the new series A funds, SimpleReach plans to invest... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Native-Ad Metrics Startup Simple Reach Raises $9 Million

SimpleReach, a company that provides publishers like The New York Times and Forbes with measurement and distribution tools for their native ad programs, has raised $9 million in its first big round of financing, the company said Tuesday. With the new series A funds, SimpleReach plans to invest... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fight Club sequel due in 2015

Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk is writing a sequel that will be published as a 10-part comic book series in 2015. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Doubts raised by indie authors over KU terms

Independently published authors have responded with caution to Amazon’s launch of its new... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HMH Strikes Deal with Cricket

The deal will give HMH access to over 100k articles and passages from Cricket's library to include in instructional and supplemental tools for students and teachers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comics, Graphic Novels Market Hit $870 Million in 2013

Led by book format comics with $415 million in sales, the North American comics and graphic novel marketplace generated $870 million in sales in 2013, according to a new estimate by ICV2 and Comichron. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Dawson crowned Queen of Teen

British author James Dawson has beaten off competition from eight other authors, including US... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Stop Hitting Yourself!”

After months of wielding the stick, Amazon is trying the carrot—or at least pretending to—in its feud with Hachette over ebook pricing. Early this week, it sent a letter to “a few authors and agents” with a sugarcoated proposal to “take authors out of the middle” of the dispute. So long as... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Audio Book Club Meets Karl Ove

This month, Dan Kois, David Haglund, and New York Times Book Review editor Parul Sehgal discuss My Struggle: Book One, the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-book autobiographical epic. Can the endless accretion of detail a masterpiece make? Would people respond differently to this... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Young adult books: 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' author James Thurber picks the best YA titles

Beyond John Green and Veronica Roth: James Thurber compiled his own list of books that he thought young adults might enjoy, and his picks still hold up today. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Disappointment from losers in ACE funding round

Manchester based writers' development organisation Commonword is among the organisations... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Kickstarter Drive to Fund AEON and ‘Black Jack’

The comics character Aaron Day, better known as Black Jack, is an African American adventurer created by comics writer, playwright and educator Alex Simmons. A Kickstarter campaign has been started to support Black Jack and the launch of AEON, a new online gaming, comics and animation platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC's James Harding to newspaper publishers: let's work together

Corporation's news executive seeks local journalism deal with press owners, saying differences have been 'overdone'James Harding, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, opened a conference on local journalism today by arguing that the differences between the corporation and newspaper... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Binc Launches Matching Funds Pilot Program

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation is launching a matching grant pilot program that will add to the Foundation’s existing financial assistance programs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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