One of President Barack Obama's biggest legacies will be his healthcare plan. Another, thanks to the Edward Snowden leaks, is domestic spying. But Obama has another legacy, one not so obvious, and which won't be felt until years after he's left office. The history ebooks will remember the 44th president for setting off a chain of reforms that made predatory patent lawsuits a virtual memory. Obama is the patent-troll slayer. Continue reading at 'Wired'
[ Wired | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook restricts users to those over the age of 13, but anyone who's talked to a tween lately knows how effective that is.But now it appears Facebook wants to create a way for young people to go legit on the network -- and still comply with the law.In a patent application filed in November of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ever since Regnery launched its children’s publishing program three years ago, the publisher has been looking for a way to celebrate American history and American heroes in a way that would engage, inspire, and entertain young readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even though Jacqueline Woodson’s latest release, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin/Paulsen, Aug.), is set during the 1960s and ’70s, its themes are still relevant today, especially after a controversy erupted last month over the lack of diversity in BookCon’s initial lineup of authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Along with the growing popularity of graphic novels, there's also been a boom in books about comics. Here's a short list of new and upcoming books that should have a place on the shelf of every serious comics enthusiast. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The book world has been stunned by the sudden death of Deborah Rogers, co-founder of Roger, Coleridge & White, and a woman who was midwife to some of contemporary fiction’s most significant authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for this year’s Orwell Prize for books includes Alan Johnson’s This Boy... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abrams has bought world rights to make-up artist Lisa Eldridge's history of make-up,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the recent consolidation of Penguin Random House fresh in everyone’s minds, this year’s London Book Fair Great Debate argued the proposition: "It’s all about size, bigger is always better." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer Doris Lessing was remembered as a visionary whose writing continued to surprise and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has signed a non-fiction book on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge from former Times... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jay Lauf, publisher of Quartz, spoke at Digiday Publishing Summit about what the site has learned by focusing on design, useful content and shareability in its native ad programs. The key, he said, is the sales side thinking like editors.The post The Quartz secret to great native ads: Think like... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Historian and professor Allen C. Guelzo's winning book was "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new, free app which links books and authors to dates, themes and distinct locations around... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Cold War had almost everything—two superpowers facing off in an existential struggle, spies, double agents and honey traps, lots of great books and movies. But in retrospect it was missing one important element of modern life: Internet comments. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The books on the shortlist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2014 cover a wide range of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This essay is excerpted from The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, by Christopher Leonard, published by Simon & Schuster. Read another excerpt from The Meat Racket, about how Tyson keeps chicken prices high. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sexism is real and it spills over to our most influential cultural publications. How many times do we have to call for change?Today, as they have every year since 2009, VIDA: Women in The Literary Arts, an organization dedicated to gender parity in the literary arts, released its annual count... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors demand their own books are taken out of circulation in India after Wendy Doniger's The Hindus was pulled last weekTwo authors have written to Penguin demanding that their books be pulped in protest at the publisher's removal of Wendy Doniger's The Hindus from circulation in India, while... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Arundhati Roy leads chorus of protest after publisher settles lawsuit brought by militant groupConservative activists in India have pledged to continue their campaign to purge bookshelves and schools of works they say are abusive to Hinduism, as a fierce row over a 700-page academic... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There is no need to turn to the US for great writers, the publisher of one of the Folio Prize-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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