Low-cost ebook conversions enabled massive growth of the market, but there were many errors. It's now time to upgrade those ebooks to a higher quality. The post If Ebooks are Software, It’s Time for Version 2.0 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
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Nine Eight, Bonnier Books UK's new music imprint, will publish Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike in November 2021, the first book to provide a "sympathetic yet objective re-examination of Britney Spears' cultural impact". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-19 02:29:30 UTC ]
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Flint Books, an imprint of The History Press, has acquired two "urgent and instructive" titles on sustainability and climate change to publish in time for the COP26 summit in October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 22:17:00 UTC ]
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Fiona Sampson’s biography reads like a thriller, a memoir and a provocative piece of literary fiction. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperNorth has acquired a book on regional inequality in the UK by journalist Sam Bright, chief politics and investigations reporter for Byline Times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-09 10:36:32 UTC ]
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Sustained increases in book reading and book buying were the underlying factors in driving up sales by 19% and profits by 42% in HarperCollins's latest fiscal year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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News and Events In this second episode of WLT Book Buzz, Laura Hernandez & Bunmi Ishola cover 42 books that connect with history. Find out what they read this summer and why these books should be on your shelf. Partition, World War II, the Tulsa Race... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-08-04 15:40:39 UTC ]
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The books we love coming out this week include new titles by Joyce Carol Oates, Charlotte McConaghy, and Sandra Brown. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The U.S. Department of Labor's American Time Use survey found that the time Americans spent reading daily increased 21% in the May-December period in 2020 over the comparable period in 2019, rising to 34 minutes per day. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In a presentation on July 21, NPD BookScan said that, based on current trends, unit sales of print books are likely to finish 2021 with a gain over 2020. How high that gain will be depends on several factors, including the future course of the pandemic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Mr. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for his coverage of human rights abuses and women’s rights, said friends were trying to recruit him into the race to replace Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-07-19 17:22:47 UTC ]
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Lauren Child's latest story focuses on Christmas in a Clarice Bean story that is full of empathy and hope Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-17 02:08:43 UTC ]
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Hachette has announced the longlist of 12 writers in contention for the £2,500 Mo Siewcharran Prize, which was launched in 2019 to discover unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 23:42:18 UTC ]
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I am a regular reader of @PublishingTea. This is a pastime I share with many others. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 02:15:14 UTC ]
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"The notion of 'a book' is just a convenient fiction which we books go along with because it serves the needs of the bean counters in publishing, not to mention the ego of the writers. But the reality is far more complex.” So explains “the Book”, one of the narrators of Ruth Ozeki’s fourth novel... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 19:27:08 UTC ]
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American author Susan Choi has won the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award with her "luminous" story "Flashlight". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 16:07:00 UTC ]
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The Nobel Prize winner talks about the pandemic, his novel “Klara and the Sun,” fatherhood and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-22 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Nielsen's ongoing quest to measure the fast-changing television landscape will now include a monthly snapshot into how consumers around the country are spending their TV screen time. A new monthly graphic, which Nielsen is calling The Gauge, will offer a window into total TV time, including both... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2021-06-17 21:56:31 UTC ]
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The final six stories competing for the £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award have been revealed, featuring British author Jonathan Gibbs and Scottish writer Rachael Fulton alongside four US writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-06 11:11:42 UTC ]
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National Book Award winner Charles Yu discusses 'Interior Chinatown' with Times film critic Justin Chang at the L.A. Times Book Club Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-05-27 20:58:15 UTC ]
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The author speaks with Emirates Airline Festival of Literature director Ahlam Bolooki, asserting 'You don't have to write every day.' The post Author Tayari Jones on Timing at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-05-26 14:44:41 UTC ]
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