Addressing author concerns about the timeliness of royalty payments, the erotic romance publisher Ellora’s Cave blamed the problems on new accounting software. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Report finds half of negative comments aimed at Rian Johnson’s movie came from Twitter bots or trolls, indicating fan backlash was overstatedMore than half of the hostile responses to The Last Jedi, episode eight of the Star Wars saga, were politically motivated trolling or the result of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It was only four months ago that American Media, Inc. emphatically denied any "catch and kill" coordination with then-candidate Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, calling accusations to that affect "reckless, unsubstantiated, and false," and "an attack on the First... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jordan Belfort, the real life "Wolf of Wall Street", is in court following a row over royalties from his latest book, Way of the Wolf. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The streaming company will recompense songwriters not paid enough royalties, but one unhappy music publisher claims ruling is ‘a free pass on wilful infringement’Spotify will pay out $112m (£83.5m) in a settlement agreement, following two lawsuits that claimed songwriters hadn’t been paid enough... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Recent controversies surrounding books by Sally Kohn and Amy Chozick have revealed a system that makes it hard to authenticate the claims of authorsRecent weeks have seen a flurry of conversation about factchecking in the publishing industry. Two high-profile authors have had their work’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There was a core of optimism at the Book Industry Study Group’s annual meeting in New York, despite sluggish trade sales and challenges facing the business – from old problems roaring back, like returns and piracy, to that new mystery, blockchain technology. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Guardian investigation shows there were whole months last year when not a single BAME person featured on the cover of our biggest-selling magazines. And when it comes to children’s magazines, the problem is even worse Women’s magazine editors have always understood the importance of a good... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No one in publishing can “feel smug” about the issue of gender pay, Hachette c.e.o. David Shelley has said, while urging publishers to also consider intersectionality and unconscious bias when discussing issues of diversity and inclusion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, PW talks to University of Virginia Media Studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the forthcoming 'Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy' (Oxford University Press) about Facebook’s sprawling influence in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women are half the world's population and the majority of university graduates. They are most of the young doctors, lawyers and accountants. A girl can grow up to be a prime minister, a priest, a prison guard, and yes, even a princess. There's a million and one ways to be a woman in today's... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week, Facebook waffled yet again about which #content people want to see on Facebook. Cue the launch of a new feature that lets publishers label one breaking news story a day. With Facebook experimenting with breaking news, it seems only fitting that Twitter would do the same. The company... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Maths - No Problem! has been named Ingram Content Group Independent Publisher of the Year at this year's IPG Independent Publishers Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parragon is closing down in the UK because of competition and a lack of retail space, owner DC Thomson has told The Bookseller. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing "wrestled with profitability problems" as the result of its rapid growth in 2017, financial accounts revealed a week before its chief executive Richard Johnson's departure. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Nobel laureate, who is a vocal critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was nominated for the honour while writing screenplay about Bosnian warThe city of Sarajevo has abandoned plans to make Orhan Pamuk an “honorary citizen” of the Bosnia-Herzegovina capital, with critics blaming... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SAGE’s global publishing boss reveals how he had to ditch his first name to get noticed by potential employers in the industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The success of Michael Wolff’s Trump tell-all left publisher Henry Holt unprepared to meet initial demand. A big reason is the way data moves (and doesn’t) in the industry. Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury is exploding. Threats of legal action from the Trump White House–the book’s subject–seem only... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Wolff paints a vivid portrait of the Trump administration’s dysfunction. But he is less forthcoming about his own duplicityMichael Wolff, author of the White House expose Fire and Fury, has been subject to a lot of comparisons this week – mostly to his own target, Donald Trump. How... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The music streaming service faces a claim on behalf of artists including Neil Young and Janis Joplin as it prepares a share saleMusic streaming service Spotify has been sued by a music publishing company for $1.6bn (£1.18bn), for hosting songs it allegedly doesn’t have the full rights to. The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Overall the books selling well' in the UK 'are not literary,' Arts Council England's commissioned report from the Canelo team announces. The post Arts Council England’s Alarm for Literary Fiction: ‘The Problem Is a Real One’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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