Look west: Jupiter and Venus converge in night sky

Look west on Tuesday night: Jupiter and Venus will nearly converge, and you don't need a telescope to see their planetary dance. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cover Story: The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge

Designer Will Staehle's book jacket taps into what the 'hypnotic sensibilities' of the novel, a story of obsession and H.P. Lovecraft. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taiwan lists look West as sales slide

Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) chairman James Chao says “The Taiwanese Book market is in crisis,” due to rival forms of entertainment, including Facebook.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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West Berkshire to axe half its library staff

West Berkshire Council has voted to axe almost half of its library staff, with volunteers expected to fill the vacancies, Newbury Today has reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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France stages inaugural 'Reading Night'

France’s inaugural Reading Night on Saturday (14th January) was a “great success,” according to the culture ministry, which initiated and partially subsidised the event. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Billabong Spot Is So Gnarly: It's Last Night's New Ads

Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The new releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HBG CEO Michael Pietsch Speaks at BIGNY President's Night

At the Book Industry Guild of New York's annual President's Night event, Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch spoke on his four-decade career in publishing, innovations in the industry, and the industry-wide efforts to work in a market with flat revenue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eva Longoria Will Read You Your Favorite Book: It's Last Night's New Ads

Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The new releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sky News presenter pens The Women Who Shaped Politics

Hodder & Stoughton imprint Coronet has acquired a book telling the story of women in Westminster authored by Sky News presenter Sophy Ridge, formerly senior political correspondent for the channel. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: top marks for Night School

Lee Child’s Night School has reclaimed its pole position in the Weekly E-Book Ranking, after a brief week in second place when Scott Mariani’s The Devil’s Kingdom upset the apple cart. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Remodelling World Book Night

The Reading Agency's chief executive Sue Wilkinson on how the organisation is revamping World Book Night.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rentzenbrink, Marotta and McVeigh titles part of 'more targeted' World Book Night 2017

The Reading Agency has announced a new "targeted approach" for World Book Night 2017 with giveaway titles including authors such as The Bookseller's contributing editor Cathy Rentzenbrink, Polari Prize-winner Paul McVeigh and colouring-in bestseller Millie Marotta. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Night School' Is in Session

Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, 'Night School,' knocks John Grisham's 'The Whistler' down to #2 to claim the top spot on the iBooks bestseller list this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Extraordinary' East West Street wins £30k Baillie Gifford Prize

Philippe Sands' East West Street (W&N), a personal account of the history of genocide and crimes against humanity, has won the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon launches writing competition to reinvent Twas Night Before Christmas

Amazon is launching a nationwide writing competition in search of a modern day version of popular poem "Twas Night Before Christmas".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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West Marin's Point Reyes Books Changes Hands

Out of 27 serious letters of interest, Carol Levinson and Steve Costa chose Stephen Sparks and Molly Parent as new owners. The pair will begin running the store in January 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze lands We Own the Sky for £1m in five-way auction

Trapeze has acquired "heartbreaking yet life-affirming" debut We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt in a five-way auction. Sam Eades, senior commissioning editor at Trapeze, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the debut, which was discovered on the slush pile by Juliet Mushens at UTA, for a figure... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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East Meets West in Kodansha’s ‘Attack on Titan Anthology’

Kodansha Comics is about to release the 'Attack on Titan Anthology', a first-of-its-kind collection of original stories by Western comics creators based on Hajime Isayama’s global manga publishing phenomenon. PW talked with the publisher and a contributor about the book. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH diversity scheme launches in Manchester and West Midlands

WriteNow, a Penguin Random House campaign to find, mentor and publish new authors from communities under-represented on bookshelves, has opened for applications in Manchester and the West Midlands. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Saturday Night Live' scores its highest premiere rating since 2008

The presidential election campaign and Alex Baldwin’s impersonation of Donald Trump gave the season premiere of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” a big ratings lift. Saturday’s 42nd season kickoff averaged a 5.8 rating in the overnight markets measured by Nielsen. The figure is 29% higher than the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Night of the Living Dead' Lives Again, as a Graphic Novel

The latest act for comics publishing legend Bill Jemas sees him running the publishing operation of Take Two interactive, where the most recent project is a graphic novel adaptation of the horror classic 'Night of the Living Dead.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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