Pearson’s chief strategy officer Jonathan Chocqueel-Mangan will give insights into the publisher’s new digital-first textbook policy at FutureBook Live 2019, The Bookseller’s publishing conference. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 10:26:44 UTC ]
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Artist and "Press Here" author Hervé Tullet launches an interactive art-making project, Ideal Exhibition, at ICA LA in downtown L.A. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-26 10:00:39 UTC ]
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A record 93 winners were presented with their Print Futures Awards this week, as the scheme marks 10 years of helping emerging talent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-26 01:03:29 UTC ]
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In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and science fiction writer Mary Anne Mohanraj talk to hosts V. V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and how space exploration has been... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 08:47:28 UTC ]
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The incoming prime minister’s Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius was scheduled for October 2016, but has been pushed back multiple timesThe riddle of Shakespeare’s genius must remain unsolved, for now at least, after Boris Johnson’s publisher said on Wednesday morning that the new prime... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-24 13:09:42 UTC ]
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Hodder and Stoughton has shelved plans to publish Boris Johnson’s long-delayed book on Shakespeare “for the foreseeable future” after he was announced as the next Prime Minister. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-23 01:30:30 UTC ]
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Icon has signed up an “inspiring handbook for future rebels and revolutionaries”, Five Rules For Rebellion, by Women’s Equality Party founding leader Sophie Walker. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 14:20:33 UTC ]
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TRANSLATED BY KEN LIU, Broken Stars is a welcome second collection of 16 Chinese speculative fiction short stories and three short essays recounting the genre’s recent cultural and academic prominence. The volume gives voice to an eclectic group, serving as a who’s who of SF authors, critics,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-20 19:00:31 UTC ]
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Jon Gertner introduces those who mapped the island and those now digging into its secrets. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-18 13:36:31 UTC ]
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News publisher has departed from beginnings as a 'blogging-for-all' platform under Arianna Huffington. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2019-07-17 08:32:08 UTC ]
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Now Pearson is moving to digital-only, new generations will miss the memories bound up with the sight and smell of booksThe world’s largest publisher of textbooks is preparing to throw in the towel on print and paper: Pearson has announced a digital-first strategy for its US market. New books... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-16 15:56:37 UTC ]
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Academic publisher hopes to convince students to pay to access online materialsThe era of students using their loans to buy expensive textbooks upfront could be coming to an end, after the academic publisher Pearson announced a shift towards a Netflix-style subscription-based model.The British... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-16 13:31:56 UTC ]
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Pearson says students will only be able to rent physical books as it makes all products "digital first". Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2019-07-16 06:14:53 UTC ]
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The Spanish philosopher and poet George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a genre, historical fiction allows us to shuttle back in time to stand in the shoes, clogs, chopines, and go-go boots of people—real and imagined—to consider the... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-15 11:00:13 UTC ]
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Businesses and public policy makers are tapping novelists to imagine the path forward. But how much stock should we put in the predictions of storytellers? Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2019-07-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A new production wrinkle did little to boost interest in the MLB All-Star Game, as the TV turnout for Fox’s mic’d-up Midsummer Classic fell to an all-time low. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, Tuesday night’s showdown between the American and National League headliners averaged... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-11 18:50:40 UTC ]
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No surreal elements disrupt the grim progress of this follow-up to “The Underground Railroad.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-09 16:10:36 UTC ]
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Tochi Onyebuchi’s young adult books, the duology Beasts Made of Night and Crown of Thunder, are fantasy novels with a Nigeria-influenced setting. His upcoming War Girls is set in a post-nuclear, post-climate change Nigeria of 2172. Riot Baby, his first novel for adults (also forthcoming), is a... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-04 11:00:10 UTC ]
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Collins Learning India m.d. Chaitali Moitra has left the company and will not be directly replaced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 17:11:45 UTC ]
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The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading "The Other Americans" by Laila Lalami. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-03 14:00:01 UTC ]
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The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “The Other Americans” by Laila Lalami. She shared this excerpt from the novel’s first chapter, which sets up the mystery surrounding the death of a Moroccan immigrant run down by a speeding driver in a Southern California desert town. My father was... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-03 14:00:00 UTC ]
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