“The Education of Brett Kavanaugh” also recounts the life of privilege that preceded the showdown. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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In his testimony, Wiley president and CEO Stephen Smith said Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Kirtsaeng has hobbled the publishers’ ability to sell textbooks abroad, and suggested a legislative fix. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judiciary Subcommittee considers whether or not it should extend the First Sale Doctrine to include ebooks and other digital media. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Temperance Brennan is back in Kathy Reichs’s highly anticipated 17th novel, Bones Never Lie, coming from Bantam in September. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late author's UK editor remembers a funny, gracious, kind, demanding, delightful and wise human being and writer of one of the world's great autobiographiesMaya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. She lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale (Allen Lane) has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere fought in some of Europe's toughest battlesWilliam "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the second world veterans whose exploits were dramatised in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, has died. He was 90.His son, William Guarnere Jr, confirmed on Sunday that his father died... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fresh off a year in which his graphic novel, "Boxers and Saints," was nominated for a National Book Award, cartoonist Gene Yang, along with artist Sonny Liew, is back with "The Shadow Hero," a new work about arguably the first Asian American superhero. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW Comics World's bi-weekly spotlight on crowdfunded comics and comics-related projects. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Business psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reveals the reasons why the online publisher is so successfulWhen it comes to online content and storytelling, there are few sites as savvy as BuzzFeed, a platform that combines artificial and human intelligence to detect, produce and increase viral... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Bower, the author who so often strikes fear into his subjects, has taken a second critical look at Richard Branson.His new book, some 14 years on from his first biography, is being serialised in the Sunday Times, with the second instalment due in two days' time.I think all journalists would... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The anonymous figure behind the Twitter handle is reported to be releasing a book titled 'Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance and Excess in the World of Investment Banking' this October. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man look truly stunning following a traditional, Pacific Northwest makeover.We all know Batman when we see him, but he always looks a little different, depending on the artist. Whereas in the hands of Dick Sprang, Batman is a barrel-chested 1920s strong man, in the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myrmidon will republish two original accounts by British Second World War prisoners of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble is being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission over its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Union pays Lucy Adams' legal costs after falsely accusing her department of being involved in a 'dirty tricks' campaignThe National Union of Journalists has apologised to the BBC's outgoing human resources director Lucy Adams and paid her legal costs after falsely accusing her department of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York State’s collection of online sales tax has withstood a legal challenge by Amazon and Overstock, as the U.S. Supreme Court decided this morning not to hear an appeal of a March ruling by New York’s top court that found that the state could impose the tax. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers in 36 countries snap up book about modern witches in Britain by Sally Green, who only began writing three years agoAfter JK Rowling's wizards and Stephenie Meyer's vampires, publishers and producers have now been spellbound by a first novel about witches written by a former... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Gary Rubin joined the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 11 years ago, he brought a corporate sensibility with him. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The number of children who rarely read—or do not read at all—has risen in the past... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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@Horse_ebooks is the Twitter account that, until today, spewed frequent bouts of eerily poetic nonsense to more than 213,000 followers: @Horse_ebooks was widely believed to be a Twitter bot whose tweets were sent out by a robot that scraped text from obscure parts of the Internet. That is, until... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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