Howard Norman talks to Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in twenty-five years. | Lit Hub In Conversation “If the infant is primitive so is its earliest vice, jealousy—probably the most innate vice of all.” The late Elspeth Barker on the most human of experiences. | Lit Hub Memoir Ela Lee Recommends Celste […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-03-20 10:30:01 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#michael ondaatje
#lit hub
#earliest vice
#innate vice
#memoir
In 2008, The Daily Beast launched as an ambitious online effort by magazine legend Tina Brown. That effort took a detour two years ago, when it merged with old-line print publication Newsweek. The result is a publication that has crafted a model tha ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#daily beast
The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people famili ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publisher plans
A government-commissioned report into the feasibility of developing a Digital Copyright Exchange... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#government-commissioned report
Penguin UK's focus on brand strategy and going direct to the consumer will continue into the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#penguin uk
#brand strategy
Bloomberg LP is jumping into an area dominated by established media players again—this time with a daily magazine it will produce for the Republican and Democratic conventions. The daily, called Bloomberg Insider, will run 32 pages per ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bloomberg lp
#area dominated
For two decades, Brain Quest’s curriculum-based question-and-answer game has entertained kids – lots of them. Workman, which launched the line in 1992, reports sales of close to 37 million copies of Brain Quest editions for children at the pre-K through seventh grade levels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The publishing giant behind the Daily Mail is entering the travel arena with a bookings site. MailTravel.co.uk is described as offering a “robust new sales distribution channel to existing and new suppliers”. A& ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publishing giant
#daily mail
The Herald Sun, Australia´s favorite daily newspaper – read by 1.3 million Victorians every weekday – has selected WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise and its Digital Publishing ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#herald sun
For a fourth consecutive week, the three books in E L James' Fifty Shades trilogy were the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The British Retail Consortium's (BRC) sales monitor for March has revealed "some... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Moving forward with an expanded focus on digital media, Time Out New York (TONY) has integrated e-commerce and daily deals into its website and newly-launched apps. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#moving forward
One in five Americans say they've read an ebook in the last year, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Those numbers come from a late January survey, they're up sharply from a December 2011 survey. Pew says the jump coincides with a jump in... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#reading ebooks
#ve read
#e-reading devices
The Publishers Association is calling for the government to abolish the 20% VAT rate on ebooks... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#pa calls
#publishers association
Allen Lane will be publishing another title by Neil MacGregor, author of A History of the World... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#allen lane
Twenty years after it was founded by former Pantheon publisher Andre Schiffrin as a nonprofit publisher with a mission statement to publish “in the public interest,” the New Press is on something of a roll. The house has a new bestseller—Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow—spacious offices in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#twenty years
#book publishing
#public interest
#mission statement
#diverse selection
The Google eBooks store has been merged into the company's wider entertainment portal with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Independent publisher Choc Lit has scored two prizes at the Romantic Novelists’ Association... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#romantic novelists
Zinio's magazine app has certainly made the rounds -- Android slabs, the Kindle Fire, the iPad and even the ill-fated TouchPad have had their shining moment with the digital service -- but months of "consideration" for their platform have BlackBerry PlayBook owners feeling left out in the cold.... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#shining moment
#rolling stone
Daily-deal sites like Groupon have proved a challenge for restaurants that can't handle the influx of hundreds of customers redeeming deals all at once. Publishing companies, however, are built to scale their audience as needed. For the past two years, there's been a healthy amount of debate—and... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#technology review
#monetize content
#higher rate
HarperCollins' financial performance continues to be unclear, with parent company News Corp... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |