Publishing company designed to support entrepreneurs often sues them Back in 2000, Entrepreneur's StartUps magazine featured an article about Janice McLean Deloatch as she was trying to launch a business in Maryland that dispensed pantyhose from vending machines. Continue reading at 'Baltimore Sun'
[ Baltimore Sun | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK’s answer to the Nobel Prize for Literature – the £40,000 David Cohen Prize - is now being managed by New Writing North. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On Friday, Donald J. Trump, liar, con man, bigot, serial assailant, former reality TV star, failed casino magnate, failed football team owner, failed airline owner, failed magazine publisher, failed steak salesman, and loser of the national popular vote, will be sworn in as the 45th president of... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From Greece, Norway, Iceland, and the UK, the DBW 2017 Fellows speak about their successes, their challenges, and why they're traveling to the conference. The post A Few Words With Digital Book World’s International Fellows appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist and games designer Naomi Alderman is offering early-career writers traineeships to write for Zombies, Run!, a smartphone fitness game. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glittering reviews, swathes of high-profile media coverage and a reported seven-figure sum — Yaa Gyasi’s début Homegoing lives up to the hype, says Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On newsstands and in mailboxes, the 160-year-old magazine continues to defy industry trends. The post Citing a Surge in Subscriptions, The Atlantic Prints Second Run of Jan/Feb Issue appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A few months ago, after I picked up and devoured a beautifully written memoir by Elisa Hategan and was left with a serious Continue reading at HuffPost
[ HuffPost | 2017-01-03 15:48:11 UTC ]
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This coming weekend, Deep Vellum Books of Dallas, Tx., will host a pop-up bookshop as part of the Extra Yard for Teachers Summit hosted by the NCAA College Football Playoff Foundation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vanity Fair’s new subscriptions increased 100 fold after the president-elect tweeted without evidence that the magazine is failing. The post Fact Check: Vanity Fair’s Numbers Are Not “Way Down, Big Trouble, Dead!” appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London and New York's trade shows have opened registration. And in Christian publishing, a Big Five player teams up with Amazon. The post International Notes: HarperCollins’ Word of Prayer With Alexa; Registration for Spring Trade Shows appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Libraries Taskforce has pledged to undertake research into community-managed libraries following concerns about their "long-term sustainability". It has also promised to create a new "peer support network" to ensure that libraries run by volunteers provide a “high quality service” to local... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer development organisation Spread the Word is launching a new nationwide Life Writing Prize, thanks to a donation from writer Joanna Munro and partnership support from Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, the Royal Society of Literature and Arvon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s getting easier to get to a billion views on Facebook. But publishers that are only chasing scale, and not thinking about video as a long-term business, are in trouble. Take, for instance, TV, which can monetize the same piece of content through advertising, licensing, syndication,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Ireland is launching a three-year partnership with creative writing organisation Fighting Words to promote equal opportunities for young people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Post-truth" has been declared 2016's international word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Deliciously cruel’ 19th century twists on favourite stories, as adapted by Baudelaire and Apollinaire, make English debut in new book, Fairy Tales for the DisillusionedFrom a masochistic, submissive version of Cinderella who is gunning for a prince with a shoe fetish to a prince who “loved in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bruce Springsteen's memoir sold more than 117,000 print copies in its first week on sale, making it the top selling title for the week ended October 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comedians, spoken word artists and a gospel choir entertained guests at the launch of Robyn Travis' debut novel Mama Can't Raise No Man at the Hackney Empire in London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The recent departure of Arianna Huffington as editor-in-chief at The Huffington Post, the company she co-founded in 2005, left publishing even more bereft of female leaders than before.Then again, The Huffington Post already had a male CEO in place, just like Time Inc., The New York Times Co.,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kirkus Prizes, which at $50,000 each are among the most lucrative literary prizes in the country, announced their finalists Tuesday morning. The awards, sponsored by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews, are given in three categories: fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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