They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literatureAll publishing houses have archives, but for anyone interested in 20th-century literature the archive of Faber & Faber is a fabled treasure house. This is the firm that was, as Toby Faber puts it, “midwife at the birth of modernism”. In 1924 Faber’s grandfather, Geoffrey Faber, aspiring poet and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, had been installed as chairman of the Scientific Press, recently inherited by another All Souls fellow, Maurice Gwyer. It published mostly books and journals for nurses. Geoffrey Faber renamed it and started making it into a literary publisher. Within his first year he had installed TS Eliot as a fellow director and acquired his backlist.The firm would go on to publish Ezra Pound, WH Auden and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Then Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney: a poetry list to beat all others. Academics have always itched to get into the Faber archive, to get at the letters and memos that record how this 20th-century canon was made. Toby Faber has rights of entry. He has given us a highly selective anthology rather than a narrative: his book is made up of extracts from original documents (mostly letters, but also memos, board minutes and blurbs), with spare comments from himself.Faber & Faber allowed The Bodley Head to get Ulysses; “Feebler and Fumbler”, Joyce called the firm Related: Lord of the Flies? ‘Rubbish’.... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-06-20 11:00:08 UTC ]
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Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James says there are "huge sections of the population who don’t read because no one is telling the stories that they want to read". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Springer has become the latest publisher to offer ebook bundles to readers through Vancouver's BitLit. In an announcement made today (7th December), BitLit personnel tell The Bookseller that the new arrangement will add more than 100,000 titles to BitLit's "Shelfie" app. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins UK c.eo Charlie Redmayne has urged publishers “living in a rose-tinted world” to beware the threat of cyber attacks which are “increasingly sophisticated and are happening all the time”. Closing the FutureBook Conference with his views on the changes taken place in the industry... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two decades after starting in a Portland, Ore., bedroom, Microcosm is having its busiest year yet and riding a wave of expansion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We take a look back at some of the library stories that captivated the publishing world in 2015, and a look ahead at what they portend for 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-publishing is "exploding" in the Spanish language book market, and Penguin Random House is making the U.S. Hispanic market a priority. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A drive to stay current and competitive keeps coursework at graduate publishing programs evolving. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Art-book publisher Lund Humphries has relaunched as an independent publishing company after splitting from the Ashgate Publishing Group earlier this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Disagreement between business partners leads to the sudden closure of Brazilian publishing house Cosac Naify and an uncertain future for 1,600 titles. The post Brazil’s Prestige Publisher Cosac Naify to Close appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two weeks have passed since the government in Bangladesh blocked access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, and other social media sites. In Dhaka, some people have crowded into hotel lobbies to access private networks, while others are gaining access thro ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BizWest Media LLC has sold The Wyoming Business Report to APG Media of the Rockies LLC. In the wake of the deal, the Wyoming Business Report became the sister publication to several community newspapers in Wyoming, including the Wyoming Tribune Eagle ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook might be sending less traffic to publishers’ websites now than it did in January, or more traffic, or the same amount of traffic. It depends on who you ask. In recent years publishers have increasingly relied on Faceboo ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print ain't dead, says Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch in an op-ed in this morning's 'Wall Street Journal.' Far from it. The Big Five executive claims publishing has not only survived, it hasn't really changed all that much. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Assets acquired by Farm Journal Media, Bobit and CCI in deals that mark the end of the 75-year-old company. The post Vance Publishing Split Up in Three Separate Deals appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury m.d. Rebecca Smart said that traditional publishers need to “shout from the rooftops” more about the value and investment they provide for authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Kamila Shamsie has said that traditional publishers’ focus on the “bottom line value of pounds and pennies” has meant a shift away from building authors’ careers in the long-term and created a lack of diversity and new voices. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat’s enabling its publishing partners to promote their channels on Facebook and Twitter with links directly to their content, the company said today. The media partners, which include Hearst, IGN, Vox, BuzzFeed, CNN and Vi ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitzi Angel has acquired a biography of eight women who worked in Mecklenburgh Square, London, during the interwar period as her first acquisition for Faber. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's book depicts Apple as paranoid and closed — and quite the opposite of the publishing business. The post The Paranoia of Tech Doesn’t Translate to Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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?As soon as Jeff Bezos heard about Facebook Instant Articles, he wanted to participate. “We saw [Bezos] in Sun Valley,” Dan Rose, the VP of partnerships at Facebook, said in a recent panel at the Paley Int ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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