Ms. Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 Project, had said she was considering legal action against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2022-07-15 22:45:50 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#nikole hannah-jones
#legal action
#north carolina
#chapel hill
#pulitzer prize
Two library associations – the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) and the Association of Senior Children's and Education Librarians (ASCEL) - have taken issue with reports of the decline in numbers of children visiting libraries, following publication of a Department for Culture, Media and Sport... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#senior children
After nearly 20 years of connecting authors and readers, the South Carolina Book Festival has been cancelled and will be replaced by smaller, statewide events. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#connecting authors
The editor-at-large of U.K. publisher Scribe talked to us about why he thinks quality nonfiction submissions are drying up in his country, and the forthcoming Spanish book he's publishing that may change English-language readers' idea of "what Spanish nonfiction can do." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#scribe uk
In the past year Kevin Gentzel has gone from newspapers to digital media and back again.After hopping from The Washington Post to Yahoo last year, Mr. Gentzel has landed at Gannett as the newspaper company's chief revenue officer and will report to the company's president of domestic publishing... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ad revenue
#longer rely
#usa today
#digital sites
#late june
#digital business
Profile’s publishing director Mike Jones is to leave the company at the end of this week, by mutual consent. Jones joined Profile from his role as non-fiction publishing director at Simon & Schuster almost exactly a year ago in July 2014. The publisher said it was “very sorry” to make the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#simon schuster
#continue working
Bonnier Publishing has appointed Kate Parkin as executive director of adult publishing. Parkin will be responsible for publishing and management across the division’s adult imprints and will report to fiction chief executive Mark Smith. She joins Bonnier from her role as fiction publisher at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#adult imprints
#fiction publisher
#bonnier publishing
#adult publishing
#hodder stoughton
#john murray
#random house
Former Penguin communications manager Toby Jones has been hired as group marketing and publicity director by Simon & Schuster. Jones, who left Penguin in 2013 to go travelling, will begin at S&S on 1st July and report to chief executive and publisher Ian Chapman. Marketing director... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#toby jones
#group marketing
#senior role
#publicity director
#simon schuster
#1st july
"Journalism is the new marketing degree" is the slightly sarcastic motto among New York Times staffers, many of them former journalists, who create articles and videos for brands. It appears the same could be said at The Atlantic, which just hired former Time magazine Managing Editor James... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#top editor
#managing editor
#sponsored post
Penguin Random House UK and Amazon are in dispute over terms, with a new contract under negotiation. If a deal is not reached Amazon could begin to pull or downgrade the availability of PRH titles from its ecommerce channels as it did with Hachette Book Group USA titles last year. With a number... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#prh uk
Industry sources say Penguin may block sales of its books on Amazon because of a contract dispute, but both sides are playing down the rowThe world’s biggest publisher, Penguin Random House, could block sales of its books on Amazon if it fails to resolve a contract dispute with the online... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#books online
#biggest publisher
#online bookseller
#online sales
From the time its first installment was published, “Til Death Do Us Part,” a powerful series about domestic abuse in South Carolina from the Charleston Post and Courier, seemed destined for Pulitzer Prize contention. And on ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#domestic abuse
#south carolina
The shift to social reading is “liable to consign the traditional publisher and many a writer to decline and defeat in the Civil War for Books”, Philip Gwyn Jones is to say today (16th April), with the reader becoming the prize. In a speech at the London Book Fair this afternoon, Gwyn Jones... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#social reading
#traditional publisher
#civil war
#gwyn jones
A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin again features on a list of books to have received the most complaints from library users. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#gay penguins
#picture book
#baby penguin
#library users
Last year was the 40th anniversary of Berkeley publisher North Atlantic Books, and the 50th anniversary of Io, the alternative literary journal that marked the company’s beginnings. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#40th anniversary
Pan Macmillan has acquired the first standalone thriller from crime writer Mari Hannah. Publishing director Wayne Brookes bought UK and Commonwealth rights including Canada to The Silent Room from Oli Munson at A M Heath. Hannah is the author of a series of novels, published by Pan Macmillan,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#pan macmillan
#standalone thriller
#oli munson
#tv rights
#sprout pictures
#stephen fry
BuzzFeed is going literary. The ever-growing media company launched BuzzFeed Books in December of 2013, and this year it is launching several projects under new Literary Editor Saeed Jones. First up is the BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellowship pr ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The ongoing terms negotiation between Amazon and HarperCollins in the US has been reported by Business Insider, the online newspaper that counts Amazon founder Jeff Bezos among its investors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#terms dispute
#business insider
#online newspaper
Lee Child, Maj Sjöwall, James Runcie and Sophie Hannah are among the authors set to speak at this year’s CrimeFest convention. The crime fiction convention will be held at the Marriott Royal Hotel in Bristol from 14th to 17th May in association with Goldsboro Books and will see authors, agents... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lee child
#sophie hannah
#authors set
#goldsboro books
Kathy Settle has been announced as chief executive of the Leadership for Libraries task force. Settle is currently director for digital policy and departmental engagement in the Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the Cabinet Office. She will begin the new role in April, while continuing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#current role
#kathy settle
#cabinet office
#late summer
#time earlier
IPR License has hired Stacey Riley to take on the new position of transactions manager. Riley, who joins from the Nature Publishing Group, will manage licensing transactions on the rights platform, supporting authors and publishers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ipr license
#rights platform