Good morning. Unless you’re one of the lucky folks who are reading this from Mammoth, it’s a good weekend to stay home and do some cooking, maybe curl up with a blanket — yes, this is cold for us — and a stack of cookbooks. We can help with that last part, as we have a story about the couple who... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are taking a careful look at how a dizzying array of new legal standards will apply to California authors, editors, illustrators, and other publishing workers previously engaged as independent contractors when the state's new 'gig worker' law goes into effect on January 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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As the wildfire situation in California worsens—with power outages, road closures, red flag warnings, and mandatory evacuations occurring throughout the state—several independent bookstores have been forced to reduce operating hours, cancel events, and in some cases even close their doors... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-30 17:00:29 UTC ]
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Fires at opposite ends of California's coastal region, amplified by power outages, have closed a number of indie bookstores and displaced their employees, especially those in the San Francisco Bay Area and north. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Association of University Presses has issued a statement condemning an incident of book burning that took place last week at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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America’s Newspapers—the association formed from the merger of the Inland Press Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association—was ceremonially launched Oct. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-07 15:10:01 UTC ]
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Southern California Independent Booksellers Association members unanimously voted to dissolve the bookselling organization at the nonprofit's Fall Trade Show, and are now hoping to unite California booksellers as a single organization. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale was subject of intense media scrutiny and—as its publisher and agent reveal—repeated hacking attacks and tight security processes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-13 02:10:01 UTC ]
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As part of Ad Age’s continuing media coverage, here’s our ever-expanding annual survey of the covers of the fall magazines that have been hitting (or are about to hit) newsstands and subscribers’ mailboxes. We’ll be adding to this post throughout August, so keep coming back. Rolling Stone has... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-26 15:40:00 UTC ]
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Academic publisher hopes to convince students to pay to access online materialsThe era of students using their loans to buy expensive textbooks upfront could be coming to an end, after the academic publisher Pearson announced a shift towards a Netflix-style subscription-based model.The British... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-16 13:31:56 UTC ]
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The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading "The Other Americans" by Laila Lalami. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-03 14:00:01 UTC ]
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The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “The Other Americans” by Laila Lalami. She shared this excerpt from the novel’s first chapter, which sets up the mystery surrounding the death of a Moroccan immigrant run down by a speeding driver in a Southern California desert town. My father was... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-03 14:00:00 UTC ]
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It was one of the publishing events of the millennium so far: the publication of Harper Lee’s second book in 2015, more than half a century after “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Actually, though it was set two decades after “Mockingbird,” “Go Set a Watchman” had been written before — it was the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-14 19:05:00 UTC ]
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It is now a year since GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules came into effect in Europe, and on this anniversary, Microsoft is starting a conversation about bringing similar privacy regulation to the US. The company praises the privacy framework and says that it has improved how... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2019-05-22 13:22:30 UTC ]
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The Amazon Literary Partnership announced Monday that it was giving more than $1 million in grants to 66 literary nonprofit groups across the country, including nine in California. Amazon has awarded the grants annually since 2009, with the money going to small publishers, writing centers,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-21 17:40:00 UTC ]
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Taking the stage Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival, Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard relayed his well-tuned message that the company wants to reinvent advertising. He introduced the CPG company’s latest project on a step towards that goal—two short, introductory... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cambridge University Press has entered into a three-year transformative agreement with the University of California (UC), in what is said to be UC's first such partnership with a major publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The University of Cambridge and the 10 campuses of the University of California enter a major new agreement in open access, as Ontario-based Book Depot acquires the American publisher Kidsbooks. The post Cambridge and California in Open Access Deal; Book Depot Acquires Kidsbooks appeared first... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Indigo Press has acquired a book by Netherlands-based academic Paul Behrens, labelled "A Sapiens for the environment", as hundreds of thousands of students protest about climate change. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage imprint Square Peg has bagged the rights to Our Rainbow Queen, celebrating the Queen’s style through a "stunning collection of irresistible vintage photographs" with commentary by journalist Sali Hughes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The decision to walk away from the world's largest publisher of scientific journals could be a milestone in the transition to open access. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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