Eighty-nine percent of respondents to PW’s recently concluded salary survey identified themselves as white—a finding that, while hardly surprising, underscores the challenges the industry faces in producing books that appeal to minorities. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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The left-wing press is closing on a historic mansion in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, following an outcry from a faction of residents who tried to block the publisher from moving in. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scottish indie Sandstone Press is to publish a personal memoir by Helen Bellany of her life with the artist John Bellany. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lara Hancock will join Penguin Random House Children’s in the newly-created position of publisher for picture books and partnerships. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association’s annual conference is set to take place in Birmingham this year, headlined by actor and author Brian Blessed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Firms including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins have spoken out about timber company’s ‘dangerous’ moves to quash campaigners’ claims The world’s biggest book publishers have been dragged into a bitter dispute between a US logging company and environmental campaigners Greenpeace. It... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended June 4, 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance executive director Wanda Jewell is relocating to California to be closer to family, and Linda-Marie Barrett has been hired by SIBA as assistant executive director. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan has signed The First Breath, a "moving" non-fiction book combining personal memoir with the story of fetal and neonatal medicine by journalist Olivia Gordon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has snapped up two novels from Louise Candlish, previously published by Penguin and Little, Brown, in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Themed on the concept of words' power to have impact, the German Guest of Honor program has opened at Warsaw Book Fair, and continues this weekend. The post ‘Words Move’: Germany’s Guest of Honor Program Opens at Warsaw Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has welcomed the European Commission’s promise to take a closer look at the unfair trading practices in platform-to-business relationships. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agent Nicola Barr has left Greene & Heaton after six years to join The Bent Agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the latest episode of the podcast Scholastic Reads, the children's book publisher did something a little different. It shifted the focus onto some of the young folks who make up its dynamic News Kids reporting endeavor. Dialing in from various cities around the country to chat with the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crime writer and police psychologist Emma Kavanagh has signed a three book deal with Orion Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New bookstores are coming to Tennessee and Colorado; a Boston bookstore becomes a publisher; a short documentary on indie bookstores hits YouTube; and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink Publishing has won the rights to publish YouTube star Tanya Burr’s third book, Tanya’s Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster saw worldwide revenue growth of 11% in the first quarter of 2017, up to $161m (from $145m for the same prior-year period). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline's head of marketing and digital Vicky Palmer is leaving after seven years with the company to join Transworld as deputy marketing director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joel Rickett, publisher for Viking, Portfolio and Penguin Life, is taking up a new role at Penguin Random House as deputy publisher at Ebury. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Folio Prize-winning writer takes a single moment from american history and conjures his spellbinding first full-length fiction Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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