Today, the British Academy announced the winner of the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, which “celebrates exceptional research and the role of non-fiction in bringing to light new perspectives on global histories and cultural identity.” This year’s winner is Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues. “Language […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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Two graduates of Hawaii's Iolani School, Matt Sullivan and Landen Buckley, have taken on the photo book market with their StoryTree Inc. app SimplePrints. Unlike online photo services such as Shutterfly and Snapfish, SimplePrints was designed for mobile devices to make photo books, clearing... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Amazon.com has won a private auction for the right to run the .book domain name, according to Domain Name Wire. The e-commerce giant beat off competition from eight other companies who applied for the domain name, including Google and Bowker, according to the report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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After attending the FT Business Book of the Year ceremony in London, Roger Tagholm wonders, what if novels had subtitles like business books do? The post What If Novels Were Treated Like Business Books? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Veteran author Warren Adler discusses how digital publishing defies traditional norms that dictate the average life span of a book. The post The Book Launch and the Aftermath appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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'The Dark Wild' by Piers Torday has won the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, announced Thursday evening in London. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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E-book pioneer Bob Stein is to join the ‘big ideas’ panel at FutureBook 2014. The last minute addition of Stein means bookings for The Bookseller’s digital publishing conference will now remain open for another five hours. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction. Smith won the £10,000 award, now in its second year, for How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton), the two-part novel which lost out to Richard Flanagan on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Despite opposition from the AAP, Amazon.com has won the right to operate the .book top-level domain name in a private auction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Sharjah Book Fair may seem to indulge foreign visitors with excessive perks, but it's all for the good and growth of the Emirate. The post Why is Sharjah Investing So Much its Book Fair? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Hodder & Stoughton has said it is not publishing a book by controversial TV "comedian" Dapper Laughs, describing listings for the book on Amazon and its own site as being “mistakenly fed out”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Rob Bell and Kristen Bell reflect on the meaning of marriage; Gerard Russell explains little-understood religious dynamics in the Middle East. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Buddhist poet Gary Snyder in conversation; Eben Alexander returns to the subject of heaven. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Journalist Shawn Vestal was recently named the winner of this year's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for his debut collection, 'Godforsaken Idaho.' We talked to Vestal about winning the prize, and his experience publishing the book with Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Scientist and broadcaster Professor Mark Miodownik has won the £25,000 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books with Stuff Matters (Viking). Miodownik was announced as the winner at a ceremony held at the Royal Society last night (10th November), hosted by anatomist and broadcaster... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publishers of spiritual or religious gift books face unique challenges in a complicated business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has triumphed at the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Awards. Piketty's book, a nearly 700-page exploration of economic processes that concentrate wealth and build inequalities, was chosen as the winner of the £30,000... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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National Readathon Day will take place on January 24, and will invite readers across the country to commit to read a book for four straight hours. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Madefire, creator of the Motion Books interactive comics platform, is teaming up with educational games creator JumpStart to create motion books digital stories for its Neopets online community. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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When the winner of the C$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced at a gala in Toronto last night, the spotlight was on a new writer, Sean Michaels, and his debut novel 'Us Conductors,' published by Random House Canada. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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