Historian Antony Beevor [pictured] has said the Imperial War Museums (IWM) are "completely right" to introduce charges for researchers, but first world war historian Dr Jonathan Boff of the University of Birmingham has warned it could negatively impact academic research. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
I don’t ever want to be pitted against Lionel Shriver because, frankly, I’m intimidated by her. Shriver is successful, wealthy and powerful and has that brisk, irascible manner of formidable older women who just don’t give a damn anymore. I was wary then when I was recently asked on a BBC... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 11:08:20 UTC ]
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The three senior employees at Wayne State U Press who were fired on Feb. 7 and rehired on Feb. 21 have filed a complaint with the EEOC and Michigan Dept. of Human Rights, charging discrimination on the basis of race. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Scottish Poetry Library has come under fire from transgender and non-binary authors for its stance against “no-platforming” authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 19:17:37 UTC ]
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To find out, Charlotte Alter talks to 10 politicians, including Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-21 02:58:29 UTC ]
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From Secret Barristers to pseudonymous paramedics and White House moles, Anon is writing a lot of books these days – and identifying some unexpected truths“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” wrote Virginia Woolf. Today, Anonymous is probably an outraged employee in a public service: a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-10 00:00:19 UTC ]
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JPay made ebooks from Project Gutenberg free to incarcerated people who have their tablets last month. But...where did the money they collected for all of those Project Gutenberg books go? Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-12-05 11:39:33 UTC ]
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In 1965, two American titans faced off on the subject of the country’s racial divides. Nearly 55 years later, the event has lost none of its relevance, as a recent book attests. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2019-12-02 13:00:00 UTC ]
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On Monday, January 4th, Bill Kolins, a publicist at Corgi Books in London, called Robert Lantz, James Baldwin’s agent, to present him with a proposition. Corgi was set to publish the paperback version of Another Country in the United Kingdom in February, and Kolins wanted to launch the book with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-12 09:50:58 UTC ]
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Writer and historian Peter Moore's history of "the epoch-defining European ideas that helped found the United States of America" has been snapped up by Chatto & Windus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 06:12:19 UTC ]
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The $75,000 Cundill History Prize – the largest prize for a work of non-fiction in English, open to publishers worldwide – has announced three "outstanding" women as its finalists for 2019, two of whom are British. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 22:25:10 UTC ]
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Faber & Faber triumphed in a "hard-fought" five-way auction to publish historian Edward Shawcross’s debut book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-20 16:32:54 UTC ]
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Four British historians make up half the shortlist for the Cundill History Prize 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-19 20:33:20 UTC ]
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Even by the standards of such events, the reaction to the third Democratic presidential primary debate, on ABC and Univision last night, has been tired. There was nothing unusual in the clichéd post-game chyrons (“GLOVES COME OFF IN THIRD DEMOCRATIC DEBATE”) or the contradictory accounts of who... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-09-13 12:04:26 UTC ]
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Ahead of CNN’s climate-focused town-hall marathon, which took place across seven hours last night and featured 10 Democratic presidential candidates back to back, Emily Tamkin, CJR’s public editor for CNN, had some advice for the network. The moderators, Tamkin said, should take it as given that... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-09-05 11:55:57 UTC ]
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The creators of Jetflicks and iStreamitAll are facing federal charges for running two of the largest illegal streaming sites in the United States. A federal grand jury today charged eight people with conspiring to violate copyright law for their invo... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-08-28 00:59:00 UTC ]
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New US tariffs on books imported from China will not include Bibles and other religious titles, while charges on children’s publications will be delayed, it has been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 16:39:10 UTC ]
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Commissioner Andrew Colvin tells MPs the investigation is ‘ongoing’The Australian federal police commissioner has not ruled out prosecuting the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst, telling parliament’s intelligence and security committee the investigation into leaked material remains... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-14 00:57:26 UTC ]
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Two Sunwing employees accused of importing cocaine through Toronto's Pearson airport are among 11 people facing dozens of drug-trafficking charges after an undercover operation led by Kitchener RCMP and involving law enforcement in southern... Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2019-07-26 14:59:35 UTC ]
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NBC News’ coverage of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle may have been short on interpersonal drama, but the two-hour event certainly managed to draw a crowd. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the debate averaged 15.3 million viewers across NBC, MSNBC... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-28 00:20:59 UTC ]
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher’s Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here’s the previous edition. Debate team: Just about every publisher seems to have a hot (or lukewarm) take... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-27 19:01:33 UTC ]
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