Quarto makes five redundant from foreign rights team

Quarto has made five roles redundant from the foreign rights team based in its Brighton office. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]

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BEA 2015: Graphic Novels Make Their Mark

Although the big two of comics publishing, Marvel and DC Comics, have opted to sit out BEA this year, there will still be plenty of comics publishers dotting the Javits Center floor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2015: Harper Teams with Shazam

In its latest digital initiative, HarperCollins has announced that it is the exclusive global content partner for the launch of Shazam's new "visual recognition functionality." The new feature transforms static print and digital images into "dynamic pieces of content." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2015: Let’s Make a Deal

This A–Z listing includes specials available to retailers who place orders at BEA. Many exhibitors are offering free freight and/or extra discount points. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How The Onion Gets People to Read Sponsored Content: Make Fun of It

About a month ago, The Onion posted an article to its Facebook page with the headline, "Complete Idiot Forgot to Shave Area Between Nose and Mouth." The complete idiot, you might have guessed, sports a mustache. The Facebook post has more than 13,000 "likes," nearly 2,200 shares and reams of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins makes Ireland appointments

HarperCollins has made two appointments to its team in Ireland, with Mary Byrne promoted and Ann-Marie Dolan joining the sales team. Byrne, formerly HarperCollins Children's publicity director, will now become PR director, Ireland, taking responsibility for for the publicity strategy for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foreign authors warned about book censorship in China

Books translated for the fast-growing Chinese market may be censored without their authors’ knowledge, a writers’ advocacy group reportsA US-based advocacy group is warning Western authors to be vigilant about censorship of their work, which is sometimes done without their knowledge, in China’s... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Makes Progress on Strategic Goals

Although sales and earnings at Bloomsbury were relatively flat for the year ended February 28, 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, the company did make progress in easing its dependence on the “traditional book market,” company chief executive Nigel Newton said. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alphabet Soup: The CAB Is now the VAB as Cable Teams With Broadcast

In an unprecedented show of solidarity, broadcasters and cable networks are taking steps to present a unified front in the advertising marketplace.Effective today (Monday, May 18), the 25-year-old Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau will for the first time add representatives from the broadcast... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UsVsTh3m's demise shows challenge of making news for Facebook

As news organisations sign up to publish straight to Facebook with Instant Articles, Trinity Mirror’s decision to cull new formats teams shows how social media is changing publishers’ priorities Asked what are my favourite pieces of digital journalism to emerge from newsrooms over the past few... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Freelance With A Family: Advice On Making It Work From One Of America's Top Rock Critics

Jessica Hopper on how she kept her creative dream job—and her family—thriving.In the early '90s, then-ninth-grader Jessica Hopper started putting out a fanzine to write about her favorite bands in Minneapolis. She turned that into assignments for local publications like City Pages, and then... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ministers to make call on 'Netflix tax' in a few months

Online shoppers will find out within a few months whether they  will have to pay GST on ebooks, music, games and television services downloaded or streamed from overseas. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agency view: The (few) publishers that get mobile ads right

Publishers get a bad reputation for their mobile ads, which often intrude on or confuse the user. But some get it right, say agencies. BuzzFeed's ads mirror the site's shareable editorial content. Mashable, ESPN and NY magazine strike a good balance of content to ad space. The Weather Company... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Germany’s Suhrkamp: Rights Management as a Mission

Berlin-based Suhrkamp publishing house actively manages 50,000 rights contracts as part of its mission to sustain and spread Germany's literary patrimony. The post Germany’s Suhrkamp: Rights Management as a Mission appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH creates one Children's editorial team

Penguin Random House UK Children’s today (6th May) announced it is creating one editorial team in what it described as "the next chapter in the evolution of the PRH UK Children’s division". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta's Rausing makes Ondaatje shortlist

Granta owner Sigrid Rausing has been shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her book Everything is Wonderful (Grove Press), alongside authors including Helen Dunmore and Elif Shafak. The annual award of £10,000 is given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CNL makes a stand on event fees

The French National Book Centre (Centre National du Livre, CNL) will cut subsidies for the 90-plus book fairs and literary festivals it supports next year if organisers do not agree to pay authors for giving talks and participating in debates.  Meetings are being held with organisers, none of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage and Burberry team up for cloth-bound Chatwin

Vintage is publishing a limited edition box set of some of novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s books, in collaboration with British luxury brand Burberry.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix and Ellen are making a 'Green Eggs and Ham' TV show

Hulu picked up Seinfeld, and now Netflix is working on a new show with Ellen DeGeneres -- but it's not a mid-90s sitcom at all. The two will create a 13-episode series based on the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham that's due to arrive in 2018, aimed... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s still right to honour Charlie Hebdo | Nesrine Malik

Yes, Charlie Hebdo has published offensive cartoons. But its freedom of expression award for courage from the PEN writers’ association is surely meritedIf you thought that the debate following the Charlie Hebdo killings had exhausted the media and literary world’s reserves of feverish... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WSJ now has a 40-person video team cranking out 40 videos a day

Like other traditional publishers, The Wall Street Journal is trying to promote digital video viewing on its own site rather than distribute video widely to other platforms that it can't monetize. On the eve of its third NewFronts presentation, the Journal described how it uses interactive... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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