Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman is not a book that should be read in a vacuum. It becomes fairly transparent, fairly early on, that this can only be taken as a first draft of what would become To Kill a Mockingbird. This perspective allows it to be an unprecedented insight onto a seminal novel, and renders complaints about it being inferior to To Kill a Mockingbird unhelpful if not irrelevant. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookishFirst is being marketed to publishers as a promotional site that can expand discoverability, connect with readers and generate prepublication buzz for books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP Children's is to publish a highly illustrated fiction series from Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Like certain comets, books by Jeffrey Eugenides appear only rarely. Since 1993 he has dropped a novel a decade: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and most recently The Marriage Plot. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson indicated that President Trump’s tensions with CNN should not factor into the federal government’s blessing of AT&T’s proposed $85-billion purchase of Time Warner Inc., which owns the cable news network. “I don’t know what the relevance is of CNN... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate is to publish an "agenda-setting book" by author Dina Nayeri about the reality of the refugee experience entitled The Ungrateful Refugee. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two recent books take readers into the pressure cooker that videogame development can so often become. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired an "atmospheric" debut novel set on the Essex marshes during World War 2 and in the present day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first picture book set to John Lennon’s lyrics will be published by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books and Amnesty International. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VideoPad Video Editor is an affordable, entry-level video editing application that’s particularly powerful for creators who want to publish their videos to YouTube or Facebook. It’s easy to use, and it makes the workflow of social publishing much easier than it is in some other apps.The social... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hundreds of damning verdicts on memoir of 2016 presidential race, posted within hours of publication, have been removed by the online booksellerHundreds of one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s memoir What Happened, which appeared online within hours of the 512-page book’s publication, have been... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International Publishers Association president Michiel Kolman has spoken out on censorship in Russia in a speech delivered at the opening of the Moscow International Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French books and reading website Babelio, which claims to be the leader in its field by a long shot, aims to post at least one review of all the hundreds of new novels being published during this year’s Rentrée Littéraire between August and mid-October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kew & Willow Books, which was formed by three former B&N coworkers and financed through a Kickstarter campaign, is scheduled to open in late September in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the New York City borough. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dressed as a 6ft 4in blue insect, Peter Serafinowicz’s superhero is a throwback to the Golden Age of Comic Books – but with everything just a fraction offWhat is it? A superhero series, because Lord knows, we need another one of those at the moment.Why you’ll love it: As superhero series go,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pressure on book review coverage is mounting after the axing of half the Press Association's output, and some women’s magazines scrapping their dedicated books editor role, The Bookseller has been told. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How the 95-year-old magazine grew its circulation 10 percent despite reducing print frequency. The post The Big Idea Behind Harvard Business Review’s Record Growth appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A career in music journalism is described with verve mixed with nostalgiaSylvia Patterson used to plaster her bedroom walls with pages from NME and Sounds, then at the zenith of taking themselves deadly seriously, and absorbed the ethos of music as revolution (as well as fun and frenzy). What a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers using Facebook Audience Network now have far more control over bidding on their ad placements. Product marketing manager, publisher solutions Amelia Zins introduced CPM Targets (cost per thousand impressions) in a blog post, saying that rather than using price floors to set the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bodleian Library's publishing arm is set to release a collection of Jane Austen's letters which will provide "intimate glimpses" into her life after moving to Bath, aged 25. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times writer is stepping down from her role, leaving behind a remarkable career characterized by razor-sharp reviews and intra-literary rowsMichiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ revered chief book critic, announced she was stepping down from her post on Thursday after 38 years,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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