Laura Coates offers an honest description of prosecutors' complex moral universe. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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When Toronto-based Second Story Press celebrated its 25th anniversary this month, the room at a community center in downtown Toronto was filled with authors and illustrators who have helped the press pursue its goal of publishing important feminist and social justice books for young readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Tony Black has signed a four-book deal with Scotland’s Cargo Publishing. Helen Sedgwick, joint m.d. of Cargo Publishing, signed world rights to the novels directly from Black. She said: “Tony Black is a writer of enormous skill and depth and we’re absolutely delighted that he’s chosen... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales in the US jumped 23% week on week in the seven days ending 30th November as 15.8 million print books registered through Nielsen BookScan. It follows two consecutive weeks of volume growth above 5%. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon kicked off this year’s cyber Monday by claiming that Black Friday sales of its Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets were up significantly over last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble will be offering 500,000 copies of signed works by major authors to kick off the holiday shopping season. But will it be enough? Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new policy paper from the Cambridge Assessment Group has warned that the neglect of textbooks in our education system and publishing is one of the reasons that England has been overtaken by other countries. However the paper, written by Tim Oates, the body's group director of research and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hachette Book Group has agreed to acquire Black Dog & Leventhal in a deal set to close in the next several months. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s not just Amazon that is testing how early shoppers are willing to get serious about Christmas. B&N is launching Discovery Weekend, the weekend before Thanksgiving. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House is to take its interactive narrative gaming experience Black Crown offline at the end of this week, with creator Rob Sherman conceding that "the economics do not stand up". The online narrative gaming project, with Sherman's story set in the shady Widsith Institute,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ann Leckie's prize-winning sci-fi novel Ancillary Justice (Orbit UK) has been optioned for TV. Writing on her blog, the author revealed that the book has been optioned by production company Fabrik and Fox Television Studios, which previously worked together on the US version of "The Killing"... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The decision to develop a brand new content management system (CMS) wasn't hard for SAY Media chief technology officer Dave Lerman and his team. Unhappy that existing platforms limited design and ad options, the online publisher decided to delve into a four-year project, dropping upward of $50... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Premium publishers are pushing for ads to be measured on attention minutes -- or engaged time -- but there are real limitations to its adoption. The post Pageviews aren’t perfect, but ad buyers see flaws in attention measures appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the worlds most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The literary body, representing 9,000 authors, is calling on the US government to launch a competition investigation into Amazon, following the long-running dispute between the internet retailer and publisher HachetteAmericas Authors Guild has met with the US department of justice to call for an... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Black Balloon is offering $250 to the indie bookstore with the most creative display of its new anthology 'Come Here Often? 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lineup Systems’ web based advertising sales and management system AdPoint was recently launched at leading news publisher News UK. The implementation is part of News UK’s Workspace project, a wholly integrated, multi-channel appr ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazine publishers have a tablet problem. According to one designer, they always have. Four years after Apple introduced the iPad, tablet apps are stagnating. A combination of design, pricing and discovery issues has made tablet magazines a har ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Ancillary Justice' is the first novel ever to win the science fiction 'triple crown' – the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Arthur C. Clarke awards – all in the same year. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The character of Alex Vause, portrayed by actress Laura Prepon on the show, is based on Wolters. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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America's leading news agency, the Associated Press, has announced that most of its stories about the quarterly results for US companies will be produced in future through the use of automation technology.Calling the move "a leap forward," AP's managing director, Lou Ferrara, explains: "For many... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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