There have been some ambitious Minecraft projects before, but this one may win for sheer sophistication. The modding team Floo Network is creating Minecraft School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a Harry Potter-themed role-playing experience inside a Mi... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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For better or for worse, news sites’ most popular digital offerings have been interactive games and quizzes. Now Time magazine has created a new home for its interactive stories -- like its quiz to see how much time you wasted on Facebook -- which have been the site’s most popular for the past... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Penguin communications manager Toby Jones has been hired as group marketing and publicity director by Simon & Schuster. Jones, who left Penguin in 2013 to go travelling, will begin at S&S on 1st July and report to chief executive and publisher Ian Chapman. Marketing director... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media mogul Richard Desmond’s typically self-effacing new autobiography shows how he took virtual unknowns David and Victoria and made it all OK!A rival emerges to the claim that Al Gore invented the internet. It turns out that Richard Desmond invented the Beckhams. Please adjust your records... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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During a recent talk show chat, "Game of Thrones" actress Maisie Williams revealed she had listened to fans' online opinions when crafting her scrappy Arya Stark character, originally written as a left-handed swordswoman in George R.R. Martin's book series. "The fans are so die-hard; they're... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House's new OMG Shakespeare series “takes the Bard’s original prose and replaces it with slang, text speak, and emoticons.” OMG, indeed. The post Poor Shakespeare: PRH Publishes Bard’s Plays in Emojis appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MONTREAL — If a “death of newspapers” narrative still mires the industry, then here might be a Lazarus story. It’s hard to avoid such hyperbolic comparisons when talking about La Presse, a 131-year ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You might find yourself browsing more than the shelves at your local store, if Facebook knows you’re there. It’s expanding a location-aware program that will let businesses pop information into the top of your news feed. Place Tips lets brick-and-mortar stores send information to people’s News... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ever since Bloomsbury announced in 2013 that it was going to publish illustrated editions of all seven of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, award- winning illustrator Jim Kay has been working flat out to bring the Harry Potter world to life. Kay, a self-confessed control freak, said... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has rushed through a second reprint of The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert after the Fifa arrests last week, which dominated news headlines around the world. The publisher ordered a 1,500 reprint of the book, only released... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Held on Saturday morning at BookCon, the Comics Are Awesome panel, offered inside information from four bestselling cartoonist/writers: Ben Hatke, Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Holm and Jeff Smith. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The convention’s throngs of teenagers prove there’s still an appetite for reading, raising spirits of publishers who are starting to realize the importance of fandomLast Saturday and Sunday at the Javits Center, on the far western edge of Manhattan, the newly popular book lovers’ convention,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Harris is the new honorary president of the Independent Publishers Guild. Harris joined the IPG in 2000 shortly after setting up his publishing company, Learning Matters, which he sold to SAGE in 2011. His experience in publishing includes the launch of Blackstone Press and being m.d.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Digital Reader reports that due to concerns over “rampant commercial piracy,” Google has closed the Google Play Books Partner Center to new users. The post Google Closes Down Play Books Publisher appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Churchill’s Secret is based on Jonathan Smith’s book set in 1953, when the former prime minister had a strokeSir Michael Gambon is to play Winston Churchill in a new ITV drama about his final years in office opposite Lindsay Duncan as his wife, Clementine.Churchill’s Secret is based on Jonathan... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere is to publish a “moving father-son novel” about autism and Minecraft by journalist Keith Stuart. Senior editor Ed Wood approached Stuart after the journalist, who is games editor at the Guardian, wrote about his experience of playing Minecraft with his autistic son. Wood secured all... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a major shake-up of senior management at Orion, David Young is to retire as Orion c.e.o. at the end of this year, followed by major new roles for David Shelley, Katie Espiner, who joins from HarperCollins as Orion's m.d, and Jon Wood. There is promotion too for Charlie King at Little, Brown,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission has a grand plan to create a single market for digital content across all the member states of the EU, so it can be bought and sold without barriers such as the administrative burden of different VAT rates. The creation of that market will help entrepreneurial start-up... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The challenges and opportunities associated with fan-created content are arguably even more prominent in licensed publishing than they are among publishers in general. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Silverman is uniquely qualified among Boston sportswriters to assess Pedro Martinez’s fascinating life and career. Just two years into covering the Red Sox for the Boston Herald, Silverman contacted Martinez after he had been traded from the Expos in November 1997. Silverman, without the... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first title selected for the group is 'I'll Give You the Sun' by Jandy Nelson. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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