Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Fri, 15/07/2011 - 08:50 Borders could cease to exist by the end of next week although the retailer's lawyer said it has received other inquiries that could result in a takeover. On Wednesday a committee of unsecured creditors rejected a takeover proposal by private equity firm Najafi Companies. They argued a court-supervised liquidation sale would be more beneficial to them. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp owner was the only media baron the prime minister saw in his first three monthsBoris Johnson saw Rupert Murdoch for a “social meeting” on the day he signalled his intention to seek a general election last year, according to new transparency disclosures.Johnson saw the media billionaire... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-01-23 20:28:52 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#general election
#prime minister
#rupert murdoch
#pushed back
#news corp
An author and teacher says reading historical fiction is one way for adolescents to see beyond the present. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#historical fiction
The government will announce cuts to business rates in the Queen’s Speech today (19th December) in a bid to revive the high street. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 04:26:38 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#business rates
#high street
Few gifts say I didn’t know what to get you like candles or gift cards. And for about the same price as that throw blanket or wine you were planning to wrap, an audiobook can make you the hero of any gift exchange (and they’re even easier to wrap than books). Choosing books for other […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-18 09:48:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#audiobook
Library association CILIP says the library service needs up to £250m investment and has called for action from Boris Johnson’s government to secure its own future. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-18 08:39:06 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#library service
#boris johnson
#library association
#libraries
The unfinished illustrations in the book are themselves an act of optimism, encouraging children to imagine a world without lines others create for them. “Children teach us,” writes Ai-Jen Poo, cofounder of Families Belong Together, a coalition of close to 250 organizations working to end family... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-12-17 12:30:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#family separation
#power dynamics
#book published
#coloring book
Vintage Books and education charity Football Beyond Borders have teamed up for a poetry and spoken word session for footballer Eniola Aluko’s new book, They Don’t Teach This (Yellow Jersey). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 18:45:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#vintage books
Digital publishers today face an unprecedented challenge. While U.S. digital advertising revenue is forecast to generate more than $116 billion by 2021, publishers aren’t seeing their fair share of that revenue. Ad revenue is being cannibalized by everything from ad blockers to walled gardens... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2019-12-09 13:30:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ad revenue
#unprecedented challenge
#publishers aren
#fair share
#ad blockers
#walled gardens
#media landscape
#digital publishers
We talk a lot on these parts about supporting indie bookstores, but this story from The Washington Post adds an extra layer of of urgency: Patrick Darby, who worked as a bookseller at big chain stores for many years before starting his own shop, Novel Books, is in dire straits. Darby opened... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-04 20:41:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#extra layer
#dire straits
#bookseller
An agent says that getting to the root of the diversity problem in publishing requires change at the agency level. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#diversity problem
Events should be used to build long-term audiences for writers and their books rather than just being built around publication dates and sales, a Futurebook panel has heard. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 19:17:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#author events
#break free
#futurebook told
#publication dates
#futurebook panel
The new Elena Ferrante is just one of the exciting novels in translation coming next year. Lara Feigel talks to the UK editors who are rediscovering classics and finding new audiencesThere are voices that speak to us across oceans and centuries with more intimacy than the people who surround us... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-11-23 08:00:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#vigdis hjorth
#long descriptions
#translated works
#neapolitan quartet
#literary fiction
#literary world
CBS won television’s weekly Nielsen crown, despite not having a prime-time football game, primarily because games on rival NBC and Fox had relatively lackluster showings Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2019-11-19 21:25:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#nielsen
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation's third industry-wide survey found 22% of respondents had situations in the past two years requiring financial assistance, yet less than half of those in need asked for help. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book industry
Digital media company Minute Media is in talks to buy the Players’ Tribune, a website started by former baseball star Derek Jeter, according to people familiar with the matter. While the companies... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2019-11-07 10:57:10 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#people familiar
#digital media
Penguin UK has snapped up the first book by Instagram star Daisy Upton, also known as "Five Minute Mum". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-06 02:11:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#minute mum
#penguin uk
The border between Mexico and the U.S. can mean different things to different people. Attendees of LéaLA, Los Angeles's Spanish-language book fair, weigh in. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#-mexico border
An author argues that publishers should hire more diverse editors, since white editors often don’t relate to stories about people of color. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#diverse editors
#author argues
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-28 10:22:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#happy holidays
#adrianne pasquarelli
#e-commerce play
#revenue stream
#i-hsien sherwood
#publishing world
For publishers, this is a time of radical reinvention marked by a breakneck pace of innovation—and for the marketers that partner with them to connect with consumers, keeping up with the changing landscape is an endless challenge. To help make sense of everything that’s happening... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 16:35:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bloomberg media
#jarrod dicker
#commercial strategy
#rich antoniello
#complex media
#e-commerce play
#revenue stream
#media company
#great thing
#mini-conference format
#sessions start
#networking lunch
#register heretoday
#digital media
#traditional publishing