Tessa Jowell and Frances D’Souza have won Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2018. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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With so many galleys flooding the BEA show floor, it’s hard to know which ones to choose. Here are 10 of our favorites, with excerpts from PW reviews. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Subscription ebook services have been a buzzworthy topic in recent years, but are they a good deal for authors and publishers? That was the topic of a standing room only panel, moderated by Smashwords founder Mark Coker who noted the promise of subscription models as well as the “legitimate... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has invested in IPR License, a global rights platform for the book publishing industry, and will promote the online rights business to a global audience. The post Frankfurt Book Fair Invests in IPR License appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Tor says ‘we’d be nuts to decline’ 13-book contract, which will include three young adult novels alongside next instalments of Old Man’s War seriesAmerican science fiction author John Scalzi has signed a 10-year, 13-book deal with publishers Tor, which will net him $3.4m (£2.2m).Scalzi... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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South Korean publisher Chulganil is recalling copies of a book of children's writing that features a poem by a 10-year-old about matricide. The post Korean Kid’s Poem About Eating Mom Prompts Pulped Book appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Skyhorse Publishing and David Talbot, founder of Salon, are teaming to launch a new imprint, Hot Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Christopher Nolan-esque Argentinean thriller, two literary Spanish novels, a Finnish YA series, and more are making waves in the global rights scene this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The California mini-chain will add its 12th location in July 2016 in Santa Clara. In Pittsburgh, Natalie Sacco and Trevor Thomas purchased the Raven Award-winning mystery bookshop. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan is to publish the autobiography of former Formula One driver Mark Webber this autumn. Webber, who retired from Formula One at the end of the 2013 season, and now races in the LMP1 sportscar category of the FIA World Endurance Championship for Porsche. The driver was “at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital reading technology has been widely embraced by the Chinese reading public. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jussi Adler-Olsen’s The Boundless, the sixth volume in the Danish author’s Department Q crime thriller series, held on to its top spot on Germany’s fiction list last month. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There has been "phenomenal interest" from media and retailers in James Rhodes’ Instrumental (Canongate), after the Supreme Court overturned an injunction preventing the release of the book, Canongate c.e.o. Jamie Byng has told The Bookseller. In Instrumental Rhodes tells of the sexual abuse he... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK will this autumn publish a children’s book by Chelsea Clinton about the challenges the world is facing, and what young people are doing to combat these changes. It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! is aimed at young people aged 10-14 and addresses... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: a brain surgeon's memoir, Robert McCammon's latest, and a page-turning mystery set in the Arctic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vicky Beeching sells a memoir, Running Press lands a coloring book/journal, Harper signs Swedish series about a senior citizen crime spree, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs—the only authorized biography of the Apple founder—went on sale in China at 10:05 a.m. Beijing Time on Oct. 24, 2011. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Epic!, an ebook subscription service for kids, is adding titles from another Big Five publisher to its inventory of 10,000 ebooks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s book editor Rebecca Lewis-Oakes has been named as the winner of the 10th Kim Scott Walwyn Prize. Lewis-Oakes, an editor at Puffin, was one of the first people to commission a YouTube star, before vloggers became the rage, prize organisers said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Say hello to Literata, Google's font designed exclusively for longer reads.In January of 2014, a Pew study showed that nearly a third of American adults had read an ebook in the last year, and 50% of adults owned some kind of tablet or e-reading device. Many of these readers are using the wide... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline has acquired the first book by Chelsea Football Club manager Jose Mourinho. The as-yet-untitled book will be a “visually sumptuous celebration” of Mourinho’s career so far. Mourinho has won eight league titles in four different European countries: in his homeland of Portugal with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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