Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan returns to familiar themes, including the human capacity for cruelty. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-31 16:41:08 UTC ]
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Amazon's Little A imprint will release novels, memoirs, and story collections, while Day One will focus on short stories and new writers. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing houses are Germany's intellectual backbone. For many years, they created a culture of literary abundance and generated healthy profits. But in the age of Amazon, ebooks and self-publishing, they could be facing demise. Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2013-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish a new short story by Zadie Smith later this year.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three boys who were camping in Queensland, Australia, escaped from quicksand using information gained in a book. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Companies like InPowered and Disqus have rolled out ad platforms for brands to promote articles and other more media-ish content with paid placements on publishers’ sites, and now Sharethrough is upping its stake in the game. Last September, the San Francisco-based ad startup launched Sponsored... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a legal motion that brings to mind Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, three independent bookstores, including tiny Posman Books in Grand Central, have filed a class action suit charging Amazon.com and the Big Six publishers with monopolizing the ebook market. The complaint asks that Amazon and the... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children's Books is to run a live-streamed author event with horror... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer and filmmaker Jonah Ansell shares how he took his story "Cadaver" from a poem written for his sister to a short film to a graphic novel and, hopefully, a feature film. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A biography of Hillary Clinton's time as US secretary of state will be released on 5th March... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Curtis Brown has teamed up with Kobo to launch a short story competition, to be judged by author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N will cut up to a third of its brick-and-mortar stores, slowly and carefully over 10 years. Bookseller Barnes & Noble has said it expects to shut up to a third of its real-world stores. CEO Mitchell Klipper has confirmed the plans in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. But... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salley Vickers and Chiome Okereke are among the authors shortlisted for the Costa Short Story... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A tightly focused strategy on maintaining margins has enabled WHSmith to persist after than two centuries at the heart of UK bookselling, inspiring admiration and ire alike. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seven Stories, the national centre for children's books, is making a final push to galvanise... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eoin Colfer has been named as the author of the first of Puffin's eleven Dr Who short stories... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A free ebook of our best work just in time for the holidays. Makes a great gift for wordy nerds! And much cheaper than a Battlestar Galactica box set. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired a "powerful wartime novel", Wake by Anna Hope, with plans to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers have "done a lot right" and are standing in a much stronger position in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new app 'Put Me in the Story,' released by publisher Sourcebooks, will allow older readers to add the name of a younger one to Sourcebook titles. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After volunteering at orphanages in Ghana, DreamWorks animators Rachel Tiep-Daniels and Margaret Wuller created the "Picture Book Project," which harnesses the work of talented artists to both inspire children, and raise money for them. The Picture Book Project Foundation is an effort to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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