Following widespread outcry after the publisher announced it was ending its relationship with unions, fresh talks suggest a new agreement is in the offingIn what is being widely interpreted as a management climbdown, Penguin Random House, the world’s biggest publisher, has resumed talks with unions over a new collective agreement.A meeting early on Wednesday morning had been “positive”, according to a joint statement issued by PRH and the unions Unite and the National Union of Journalists. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kew Gardens will host a Peter Rabbit themed festival this year after striking a deal with Penguin Ventures, part of Penguin Random House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harrow and Ealing councils have taken their library services back in-house following the collapse of contractor Carillion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales and marketing agency Inpress is to hold a "festival of publishing" this Friday under the theme of "I Did it My Way: A Celebration of the Creative Spirit". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rider is publishing the memoir of a former death row inmate, one of the longest-serving, falsely imprisoned individuals in American history, Anthony Ray Hinton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It looks as though production is about to begin in Maryland on the sixth and final season of “House of Cards,” which has been rewritten to omit star and executive producer Kevin Spacey. A casting notice was published Friday on Facebook for the “first official photo shoot for Season 6” with a... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profile Books has acquired Tenants: Stories of Britain’s Housing Shame, the first book by award-winning journalist and campaigner Vicky Spratt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Overwhelming demand for the book has generated wait lists that rival such all-time bestsellers as 'Harry Potter' and 'Fifty Shades of Gray.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facing high demand and a pushed-up pub date, booksellers big and small are scrambling to get copies of Michael Wolff's political exposé. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest seed fund seeks to spur startup growth in “flyover country,” but race can present a starker dividing line than geography. Twenty years before J.D. Vance published his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson wrote an elegy of... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The dispute—which saw Elsevier block access from some campus IP addresses—was closely followed in the higher education and academic library communities. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Footfall into bookshops is down year-on-year in December, retailers have reported, but traders are holding their nerve, hopeful for a rush of sales in the last week to go before Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House is launching a new exhibition to showcase 100 "iconic, deliberately bold and thought-provoking" cover designs of its modern classics. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK chief executive Tom Weldon has highlighted the "breadth and range" of its publishing, after the group saw its market share of the Christmas bestsellers reach new heights. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quentin Blake and Neil Gaiman were among the authors and illustrators who helped to raise more than £160,000 for the House of Illustration on Monday evening (11th December). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An effort to organize Skyhorse Publishing has ended, for now, as pro-union workers at the independent publisher were outvoted in an election to determine whether eligible Skyhorse employees would join Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The $35 hardcover features hundreds of photographs of President Obama plus a foreword by the former president, and Amazon and BN.com report that the book is out-of-stock. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press is to rush-release YouTube psychologist Jordan Peterson's book out in January. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An art director at Penguin Random House US has resigned from his post following sexual harassment allegations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series, is to move from Penguin to Headline imprint Wildfire for his next four books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three weeks after actress and comedian Charlyne Yi leveled sexual harassment charges against Giuseppe Castellano, an executive art director at Penguin Workshop, he has stepped down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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