J K Rowling has pledged £5,000 towards Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant, an anthology on race and immigration which is being hosted on crowd-funding site Unbound. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A petition calling to protect libraries by "ringfencing government funding" has gained more than 5,000 signatures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thievesNever underestimate the power of one determined person. What Carole Cadwalladr has done to Facebook and big data, and Edward Snowden has done to the state security complex, Alexandra Elbakyan has... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amid calls for a boycott and public pressure to follow The New Yorker in canceling a speaking gig the magazine booked for Steve Bannon, The Economist is standing by its decision to include the controversial former White House strategist in its upcoming Open Future Festival, citing the need to... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Small Press Expo, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, will immediately contribute $20,000 to support the legal defense of 11 cartoonists charged in a defamation lawsuit. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A bumper anthology of nature poems, backed by the National Trust, was the dream brief for an illustrator whose portfolio was already filled with impressive work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin is publishing a new anthology, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, "a literary treasure trove" of "30 great short stories published in the last 20 years", featuring contributors such as Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh and Neil Gaiman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Brown’s Origin (Corgi) has once again topped the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 20,777 copies for a fifth week atop the overall chart. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize shortlist has been revealed, with subjects ranging from the Grenfell Tower fire to a historic village plagued by a mysterious smell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Centre for Writing and Tilted Axis Press have launched the new Tilted Axis Mentorship for a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic literary translator based in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hiring more employees of colour and seeing stories with BAME characters as normal, not niche, are just some ideas suggested by the book industry following a damning report which revealed that only 4% of all the children’s books published in the UK last year featured a black, Asian or minority... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atlantic imprint Allen & Unwin is to publish cultural critic and author Roxane Gay's "valuable and timely" anthology on rape culture. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ethnic minority characters should feature in more books and not be defined by their "otherness". Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only 4% of all the children’s books published in the UK last year featured a black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) character, according to “alarming” new figures from a study into ethnic representation in children’s literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook announced last month that it was funding an initiative to create news shows from 10 to 12 U.S. publishers for its Facebook Watch video platform, and the first slate of those shows will begin streaming Monday, July 16. Head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown and product manager... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House, Virago, 4th Estate and the team behind The Women’s Prize have all made significant book donations to The Feminist Library to celebrate Feminist Book Fortnight and the collection’s 43rd birthday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cuts have eroded the quantity and quality of the press. We must have a say on where to go nextHere is the news. Newspaper publishing revenues from both circulation and print advertising, have plunged by more than half over the past decade, down from almost £7bn to just over £3bn. Here’s more... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With plans for multiplatform development to follow, the allegorical fantasy writings of Italian author Roberto Ricci are coming first to television. The post Finnish Digital Media Fund IPR.VC Backs Development of YA Book Series for Television appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The director of an EU-wide children’s literature project has said Europe must continue to work with the UK after Brexit. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Translation funding for international publishers interested in Scottish writings and a call for papers and presentations for the January Future!Publish conference in Germany are open and have deadlines in place this summer. The post Deadlines: Call for Papers in Germany, Translation Fund... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze is publishing an anthology of writing by and for black British men, about their voices, experiences and representation, edited by Mostly Lit podcast host Derek Owusu. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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