Helen Macdonald follows her acclaimed début with an eclectic anthology, one which is overtly political Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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How do you live with the knowledge that your baby is dying? A radiant new memoir chronicles the nine months after a mother's worst nightmare came true.Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo and Curtis Brown have teamed up to create free scholarships for the Curtis Brown Creative... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp.'s soon-to-be publishing company will begin life with no debt and about $2.6 billion in cash -- illustrating the parent company's attempt to provide the new entity with solid financials and money for acquisitions. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp.'s publishing spinoff will be armed with $2.6 billion in cash and no debt, demonstrating Chairman Rupert Murdoch's passion for print even as the new company confronts an industry in decline.The cash pile could come in handy for acquisitions or just to shore up the publishing business,... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson has launched what it has called an "incubator" programme to help education... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Literary Platform and Bath Spa University have partnered on a new bursary for partnering... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today, perhaps the most ambitious and aggressive community in publishing is self-publishing. How practical is it for a self-publisher to pursue licensing deals? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A call by Foyles c.e.o. Sam Husain for more support on margin for high street booksellers has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazine publishers have more directly embraced tablets over more than a year as it became clearer that they were boosting the bottom line. We may be witnessing a watershed moment today, however. Hearst has started publishing issues for 22 of its magazines in the iOS Newsstand days before their... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There has lately been a rising backlash against the ubiquity of personal writing. Hamilton Nolan’s anti-confessional diatribe in Gawker claims that journalism students are now taught only to write about themselves, which I can say as a full-time faculty member at a journalism school is patently... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eoin Colfer has been named as the author of the first of Puffin's eleven Dr Who short stories... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christmas sales are picking up in Germany, with double-digit sales growth for the second week... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.co.uk will begin its Boxing Day sales on Christmas Day this year, responding to the fact... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books has launched a free interactive writing project, "Fleur Hitchcock's Story... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A couple of years ago, I embarked on a quixotic quest: I gave up the Internet. Surfing, emailing, YouTube-watching—it had taken over my life, eating into time I wanted to be spending with my family, my students, and my work. I documented my four-month Internet fast in a series of articles for... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple now holds the patent for the appearance of their animation which makes it look as if the reader of an ebook is turning a physical page. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former commissioning editor of Piccadilly Press Anne Clark has left to start her own literary... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, announced at the Sharjah International Book Fair that she is currently working on a new novel. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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App developer TradeMobile is to rebrand as Beyond the Story as it prepares to launch one of its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The biggest publishing companies have an easy plan to save their industry: Get bigger Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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