Belgian scholar and the joint founder and executive director of the Big Apple Agency, Luc Kwanten,died November 22, at his home in Shanghai, China. He was 78. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
AnimeNYC returned to the Javits Center November 18-20 with a slightly larger crowd than last year, a bigger manga presence, and even bigger plans for the future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Though Black Friday is technically a week away, we're already seeing a barrage of sales that we expect to carry over into the shopping holiday. Several of Apple's iPads, Apple Watches and MacBooks are available at their lowest prices to date, for instance, as are a plethora of devices from... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-11-18 17:15:53 UTC ]
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As per modern tradition, Black Friday deals are already here, well before Thanksgiving. You don’t have to wait to save money—in fact, if you do, you run the risk of missing out. Not everything will remain in stock, as Best Buy warns in its Black Friday FAQ. Many of today’s best-known tech... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2022-11-17 19:44:06 UTC ]
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Two Russian nationals behind the site were charged with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud, and money laundering. On November 3, the massive pirated e-book database Z-Library disappeared from the internet, with its domains leading to a cryptic message that the website had been seized... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2022-11-17 13:20:00 UTC ]
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Google and Facebook's privacy violations are common knowledge. But the decisions of a less-known company, Relx, are also impacting people's everyday lives. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2022-11-09 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Drusilla Jones, who owned an antique children’s book shop in Baltimore, died of end stage Alzheimer’s disease and diabetic complications Oct. 20 at Charter Senior Living. The Lutherville resident was 82. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2022-11-04 09:00:00 UTC ]
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Spotify launched its audiobook business just last month with 300,000 titles, but is now saying that Apple is engaging in "anticompetitive" behavior that is impinging the new business, the company wrote in a blog post. It said that Apple rejected its audiobook purchasing system three times due to... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-10-26 07:02:10 UTC ]
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It's a major Apple update day, as the company is rolling out new versions of its iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems. While iPhone users at large have already had a taste of iOS 16, this will be the first time that most folks will get their hands on iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura.Apple delayed... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-10-24 17:08:44 UTC ]
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The publisher and writer – who has died aged 84 – was a pioneering champion of female writers. Virago’s chair Lennie Goodings remembers her long-time colleague and friendMore than 40 years ago when Carmen and I were working late in the first Virago office on Wardour Street I asked her why she... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-18 15:06:43 UTC ]
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Publisher who founded Virago, which champions women’s writing and books on feminist topicsThe idea for the feminist publishing company Virago came to Carmen Callil, who has died aged 84, “like the switching on of a lightbulb”. Since the revelation occurred during drinks to mark the first issue... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-18 13:15:32 UTC ]
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Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the worldPeter Robinson was the creator of the immensely popular Inspector Alan Banks crime series, set in Yorkshire – the books sold almost 9m copies in 19 languages and spawned a successful... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-14 16:44:04 UTC ]
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It should soon be much easier to access your iPhone's photo collection on a Windows-based PC. Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with the option to directly view iCloud photo libraries in the Photos app — you won't need your browser, just an iCloud app from Microsoft's store. So long as your... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-10-12 14:17:46 UTC ]
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Author and illustrator Jill Pinkwater, best known for the humorous line drawings she created for many quirky chapter and picture books by her husband Daniel, died peacefully in Rhinebeck, N.Y. on October 4. She was 81. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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This week, Cherlynn and Devindra dive into the massive amounts of news from Amazon’s recent event. There’s a Kindle you can write on! And Amazon also wants to track your sleep on bed. We discuss what’s interesting about all of this gear, as well as why we still don’t trust Amazon with some of... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-09-30 12:30:58 UTC ]
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Anyone who has been taking advantage of Amazon's liberal return policy regarding e-books could soon be in for a shock. That's because following discussions with the Authors Guild, Amazon has agreed to block automatic returns on digital books that are more than 10 percent read. Currently, the... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-09-23 19:10:20 UTC ]
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Joan Fusco, former manager of remainders and overstock at Abrams, died on September 14 following a debilitating stroke. She was 83. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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My friend Jane Katjavivi, who has died aged 69 after a short bout of ill-health, dedicated her life to Namibia. She and I first met in the 1970s when we were both working in the London office of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), the liberation movement fighting to end South... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-09-19 19:11:37 UTC ]
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That reading list your teacher sent you home with can do great things for sales of several 'great classics' in a hot July in China. The post China Bestsellers in July: Classroom Classics Go Big appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-09-14 01:07:32 UTC ]
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The revolutionary—and highly literary—filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard died today at the age of 91. Thinking about him, and about all the books in his films (sometimes held sexily by Jean-Paul Belmondo), I was reminded of an anecdote reported by Richard Brody, in which Godard, in 2000, imagined and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-13 14:28:12 UTC ]
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Quarto Group reported that revenue rose 9% in the first six months of 2022 over the comparable period in 2021, to $61.9 million, and net income jumped 124%, to $4.7 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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