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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Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will chair the judging panel for the 2018 Russian Book Prize run by Pushkin House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Madefire's digital comic book platform is a good way to spice up stories that you may have read countless times, but its catalog has always had a conspicuous gap: namely, there were no Marvel comics. That ends today. Madefire has added Marvel to its... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Celebrity authors including “Great British Bake Off” champion Nadiya Hussain, broadcaster and writer Clare Balding OBE, musician and author Tom Fletcher and comedian Julian Clary, are penning titles for next year’s World Book Day (WBD) offering. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The writer discovered that his ‘perfect novella’ was all in his mind. It’s a story that is somehow fitting for the times in which we liveIt’s been a busy few days in the literary world, what with the release of this year’s Man Booker shortlist following the recent longlist announcement for its... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Saqi Books has added its voice to calls for Thomson Airways to apologise after a British woman was detained after reading one of its books on a flight. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scott Pack has joined independent publisher Eye Books as editor-at-large, and will commission works for readers "hungry for more adventurous titles". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claudia Winkleman has been unveiled as the head judge for Book People’s latest Bedtime Story competition with a theme of “friendship”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new program, called Global Certified Accessible, allows publishers to verify whether their ebooks meet accessibility standards required by blind or low vision students as well as those with dyslexia or other disabilities. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Naomi Alderman will join the judging panel for the 30th anniversary of The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Times’ commissioning books editor Fiona Wilson and Titan Books’ managing editor Beth Lewis are joining crowd-funding publisher Unbound. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field has been named the winner of Oscar’s Book Prize 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors' and publishers' groups are protesting a change in Amazon's third-party sales policy. The retailer says it's in line with 'the rest of Amazon.' The post Authors Guild Joins Warnings on Amazon’s Buy-Button Book Sales Policy appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two members of picture book royalty - Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury - have joined forces for a new and charming tale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic has claimed two titles out of the five shortlisted for Oscar’s Book Prize, which honours the best book published for children under five years old. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gillian McAllister, debut author of Everything but the Truth (Penguin), has signed a new two-book deal with Michael Joseph. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC "Newsnight" presenter and broadcaster Evan Davis has signed a deal to publish Post-Truth to explain "why bullshit is both pervasive and persistent". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dave Eggers, Valeria Luiselli, Jacqueline Woodson and Nick Flynn are among those who will be judging the 2017 National Book Awards. The National Book Foundation announced the new roster of 20 judges Monday. They include authors, some whom are previous National Book Award winners and finalists,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Little, Brown chief executive Ursula Mackenzie, Front Row’s Samira Ahmed, television presenter June Sarpong and past Publishers Association c.e.o. Simon Juden are among the judges for the British Book Awards 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lily Cole joins Rachel Abbott and Orna Ross on the judging panel for Amazon’s Kindle Storyteller Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ursula Mackenzie, former c.e.o of Little, Brown, has joined Profile Books’ board of directors as a non-executive director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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