Actress Gillian Anderson will be on the judging panel for this year’s Oscar’s First Book Prize, which awards the best first book for children aged five or under published in 2014. The £5,000 prize was set up by the Evening Standard last year in memory of Oscar Ashton, the son of the paper’s executive editor and columnist James Ashton, who died in 2012 at the age of three-and-a-half from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It is sponsored by Waitrose. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The artist starts each image by finding an intriguing character, composition, or costume element. The post Trippy Kaleidoscopic Collages Made From Your Favorite Comic Book Heroes appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
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Authors Francesca Simon, Malorie Blackman (pictured), Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell Boyce are among the judges of this year’s 500 Words children’s short story writing competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Corinne Gotch has joined The Reading Agency as programme co-ordinator for publishing partners. In her new role Gotch will manage the charity’s partnerships with children’s publishers and work with them to deliver reading activities in libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mark Zuckerberg’s second book for his Facebook book club is The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker (Penguin). The book is currently showing as not in stock on Amazon.co.uk until January 21st, and on Amazon.com until January 24th. The book is showing as available on the Waterstones’... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bookmate, an ebook subscription service founded by Russian investors, is expanding its English language ebook inventory. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The second pick in the online group, which the Facebook CEO unveiled at the start of the new year, is Steven Pinker's 'The Better Angels of Our Nature.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Want to know when your favourite author has a new book out? What festivals are lighting up your holidays? When the awards are being dished out? Check out our literary calendar for 2015, the year the new Children’s Laureate is announced…Have we missed anything? Email us at... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Has the editor of The Bookseller compared the fall of print sales of adult fiction since 2009 by more than £150m with the massively declined budgets of public libraries over the same five-year period (The writing’s on the wall for adult fiction in print, 14 January). This is also conditioned by... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Last year the book trade “rekindled its love affair with the physical book”, Pan Macmillan’s m.d Anthony Forbes Watson has told The Bookseller. “Previous years have all been about growing ebook sales, but in 2014, in a market where ebook sales were plateauing, suddenly it was all about forward... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Harry Potter fan site Pottermore has appointed Anna Rafferty as director of product, creative and content. In her new job, reporting to c.e.o. Susan L Jurevics, Rafferty will "head up a dedicated team to ensure that Pottermore’s product, content, creative and technology continue to develop and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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After signing a book deal with Faber in December, YouTube blogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle of Glitter, has signed a second deal with Simon & Schuster UK. Abigail Bergstrom, commissioning editor of non-fiction at S&S, bought world rights to a “glitzy and personal”... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Quadrille has signed a series of cookery titles for 2015 and 2016, including a book from "Great British Bake Off" finalist Richard Burr and new books from Michelin starred chef Nathan Outlaw. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ad fraud has been going on for decades. However, the sophistication of today’s ad fraud is something that puts sticky fingered program managers of yore to shame. The post Ad fraud: The oldest trick in the media book appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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This week: an unreliable narrator and her missing daughter, a crime novel that's like watching a slow-motion train wreck, and a biography of PTSD. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Writer and critic Bonnie Greer has been appointed to the board of The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). Greer will serve a one-year term as a non-executive director for the organisation. Among Greer’s aims are to help the new generation of writers to understand intellectual... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jo Fletcher Books has acquired three new novels by Alison Littlewood, including a sequel to the author’s Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller A Cold Season. Publisher Jo Fletcher acquired world rights rights to A Cold Silence and two other books from Oli Munson at AM Heath. A Cold Silence... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Oxford University Press has banned sausages and pigs from children’s books in an attempt “to avoid offence.” The post OUP Bans Pork from Children’s Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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At Oxford University Press we have to balance children’s cultural and learning needs, while retaining some healthy common senseGiven that our editorial guidelines that reference pigs and pork have been in place for as long as I can remember, little did I imagine that they would attract... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Harlequin UK (HUK) is to become a division of HarperCollins UK, with staff moving into the publisher’s new premises at London Bridge. HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp bought Harlequin Enterprises in May last year, with Harlequin becoming a division of HarperCollins worldwide. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Oxford University Press has said it encourages authors to “consider cultural differences” after claims it bans the mention of pork products in its educational children’s books. Speaking on the Radio 4 Today programme, presenter Jim Naughtie said the publisher has banned authors from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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