People keep saying that it would never get past the censorious new generation, rather forgetting its arduous struggle to be printed in the 1950sIf millennials are currently aged between the ages of 22 and 36, I am one, albeit somewhere in the upper echelons – and I am also a publisher. And so I note with particular interest when people who are usually not millennials and don’t work in publishing share their view that Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita would never be published now because of awful young people like me. Not in a million years, they say. Highly unlikely, at a push.It’s a view that pops up with surprising frequency. In the Spectator this week, Rachel Johnson writes that Lolita would be stuck on the slush pile if Nabokov had written it now, casting doubt over whether the classic would even be placed on curriculums any more. Ignoring, of course, that it is on curriculums now. Johnson then asked Dan Franklin – a publisher, granted, but not a millennial – who said he wouldn’t publish it now for fear “a committee of 30-year-olds” would resign in protest because of #MeToo and social media.While promoting her film The Bookshop last year, actor Emily Mortimer also talked about the “sanctimony” of #MeToo, telling the Telegraph: “Lolita would have a hard time being published today.” And Twitter provides a smorgasbord of spluttering about the terrors of our new prudery. Railing against “safe-space publishing”, veteran broadcaster and journalist Iain MacWhirter tweeted: “No one... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The ALA’s new Graphic Novel and Comics Roundtable aims to transform the way that books in the medium are collected and circulated by libraries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2018-19 broadcast TV season (which officially wrapped up last Wednesday) died of natural causes, succumbing to the thousand natural shocks the primetime schedule is heir to after having served out its assigned 35-week lifespan. The brain has been weighed, the heart dissected, the guts... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-31 16:36:08 UTC ]
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Computex is still days away but the parade of notebooks has already begun. Late Wednesday, Acer introduced two AMD-powered laptops to its lineup with new versions of the Nitro 5 gaming notebook and Swift 3 ultrabook.The 15.6-inch Acer Nitro 5 pairs AMD’s 2nd-gen Ryzen 7 3750H processor with... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2019-05-23 13:44:00 UTC ]
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Chris Roush Talking Biz News Founder Ready to Pass the Torch Talking Biz News founder Chris Roush announced on Wednesday that he's ready to move on from the site, which tracks job changes and other day-to-day news in the field of business journalism. "After 14 years of running Talking Biz... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-05-16 16:55:48 UTC ]
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In 2017, pro-Labour posts and memes were shared more widely on Facebook than Conservative messages. What has changed since then? Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2019-05-13 00:19:58 UTC ]
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Although serial entrepreneur Rufus Griscom has a background in books, he had no intention of getting into the book business when he launched a new venture, Heleo, in 2015. With the Next Big Idea Club, that's changed. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I don’t think we’re there yet. While various interested parties are trying sell Apple News+ as an obvious win-win-win-win-win for publishers, readers, Apple, democracy, cats, dogs and the perfect flaky pie crust, color me skeptical. Oh, there was no shortage of optimism when Apple announced the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fame! If you couldn't get tickets to our Ad Age A-List & Creativity Awards gala on Monday April 15, there's always the American Marketing Association’s Hall of Fame induction at R/GA the following evening. A trio of the ad world’s power brokers are getting their due there: Keith Weed, chief... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bumble this month launched its first foray into print and announced a new partnership with actress and entrepreneur Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The woman-first dating app now has a magazine, which the company is publishing with New York-based Hearst Magazines Corp. Fashion entrepreneur and model... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New books are not only shedding new light on the religious beliefs of millennials, but also supplying information to those who want to better educate and understand the younger generation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The US actor is praised for his "unique" take on the villainous comic book character. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first issue of 2019 focuses on the shifting role of intermediaries. The post Digiday magazine’s latest issue looks at the shifting role of intermediaries in digital media appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon unveiled the latest model of its popular Kindle e-reader Wednesday, the first version of the device with a front light that costs less than $100. The new Kindle, priced at $89.99, is one-third of an inch thick and weighs 6 ounces, making it easy to use with one hand, Amazon said. But the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some of the productivity wisdom we accept may be flat-out wrong. Greater productivity is a workplace holy grail. We study how to better manage our time to get more done. We evaluate what to delegate, as well as the tasks we should skip entirely. We read books and listen to podcasts about how to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bath-based travel publisher Wild Things Publishing has won the inaugural British Book Awards Small Press of the Year, announced at the London Book Fair, and sponsored by the CPI Group. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape's Dan Franklin has said he wouldn't be able to publish Vladimir Nabokov's controversial classic Lolita - about a man's obsession with a 12-year-old girl - were he to be offered it today, because of the #MeToo phenomenon and changing attitudes among a younger generation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The cover story is "Help! I'm in Love With Momo." Hardin, incidentally, wrote about the so-called Momo Challenge on March 1:It remains unclear how many Momo videos actually exist, whether they have actually caused kids to harm themselves, and just how widespread a phenomenon it is. It's also... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With what one of the show's artists calls "a perpetual golden hour" palette, Arna Selznick and her Nelvana team bring Ashley Spires' children's book to animated life. The post Kids Can Press’ ‘Most Magnificent Thing’ Animated Short Is Out From Nelvana appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook content moderators are suffering breakdowns, paranoia and mental health issues according to a person who claims to be a moderator for the company, and who hosted an anonymous Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Monday night. The interview and questions took place a day after The Verge published an... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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