Guardian Faber has signed a book looking back at the pictures of Observer photographer Jane Bown, who died last year. Jane Bown: A Lifetime of Looking, will collect more than 200 black and white and colour images from Bown's career, putting her portraits of people such as the Queen and Samuel Beckett in the context of her photojournalism. Luke Dodd will edit the book. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon’s Kindle hardware and associated online ebook store have revolutionized the reading experience. While some folks are scared of change, and desperately clutch their paper books, the future is clearly digital. Quite frankly, it’s wasteful to produce paper books. Not to mention, they take up... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Palazzo Editions is publishing a children’s picture book of Brian Bilston’s poem 'Refugees' after signing world rights from Unbound. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honour, from America's Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of Little House on the Prairie about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salt is to publish a "monumental tale of family dysfunction" by Eleanor Anstruther. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arabic language authors don't get many opportunities in the ebook world, whether it's due to a basic lack of support for the language (which reads right-to-left, is written in cursive and includes pronunciation marks) or the complexities of distribu... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book on how to speak up in the name of justice in ‘Raise Your Voice’ and a history professor’s take on skepticism’s role in the formation of U.S. politics are among the religion and spirituality books hitting bookstores in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week's notable options include a deal for the latest novel by Jessica Knoll, and a nonfiction title about Henry Ford. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W H Allen is rush-publishing a work of “speculative history” that explores what could happen if US efforts to engage with North Korea fail and result in a devastating nuclear attack in the year 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Book Club Favorites," a new direct-to-consumer program, is intended to promote titles from imprints across the company deemed of particular interest to book clubs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Under his real name, Darren McGarvey, the social commentator was praised for his book Poverty Safari. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus has signed a "Golden Age murder mystery" by British Library consultant and Crime Writers' Association chair Martin Edwards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vertical Networks will have 10 shows on Snapchat and Facebook this year. But it's also looking to bring those shows to other forms of media, including TV and books. The post Elisabeth Murdoch’s Vertical Networks shoots for TV, books appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With plans for multiplatform development to follow, the allegorical fantasy writings of Italian author Roberto Ricci are coming first to television. The post Finnish Digital Media Fund IPR.VC Backs Development of YA Book Series for Television appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Her Little House on the Prairie series has been criticised for racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week's hot books include an Italian family saga and a rediscovered Italian novel originally published in 1945. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lightning Books has signed the fifth novel of award-winning Australian writer Emily Maguire. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion has pre-empted an "uplit" debut from Headline non-fiction editor Richard Roper in a "major" six-figure deal within 48 hours of submission. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent mental health publisher Trigger has acquired the first book of TV presenter, Simon Thomas, about coping with the death of his wife Gemma. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For a 16th week, Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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