Members of several Canadian families who lost loved ones in the Ethiopian Airlines crash last March landed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport Tuesday morning along with seven caskets carrying the remains of their relatives. Continue reading at 'CBC'
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Unit sales of print books fell 4% in Canada in 2017, compared to 2016, while dollar sales dropped 3%. The figures were released by BookNet Canada’s sales tracking service. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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City A M has launched a monthly book review section and appointed Francesca Washtell as its books editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How many of us made it through the chaotic past year without occasionally wishing to wake up in an alternative universe? Novelists have the tools to rearrange our reality, testing the limits of things we take for granted — politics, technology, gender, nature — and twisting them into new shapes.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended January 7, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Canadian university professor's book is back on the best-seller list after a decade, thanks to tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It was supposed to be the day that hordes of Kiwis would get their hands on the book everyone's talking about. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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August sales of adult trade books slipped by 0.3% from August 2016, according to AAP’s StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The week before Christmas saw the biggest value takings for books since 2007, but bad weather and a surge in online orders hit brick and mortar booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by solid gains through the retail and club channel, unit sales of print books rose 7% this Christmas week over last year. 'The Getaway' remained the season's most popular book, while Rupi Kaur sold a combined 136,000 copies of her two books in the week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Family, friends and public safety colleagues will gather Saturday to salute a firefighter from Escondido who lost his life facing down the largest wildfire in California history. The private 10 a.m. service at the Rock Church in Point Loma will honor Cal Fire engineer Cory Iverson, who served the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kristen Roupenian, the author of “Cat Person,” a fiction piece in The New Yorker that became a viral phenomenon, has agreed to a two-book deal. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a fast start, Metabooks Brasil has brought more than 50,000 titles onto its platform with the top booksellers in Brazil and more than 70 publishers. The post Metabooks Brasil Achieves 20-Plus Percent of Available Titles in Six Months appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A funeral procession is underway Sunday for Cal Fire engineer Cory Iverson, who was killed in the Thomas fire. The procession, which began at 10 a.m., will travel south on the 101 Freeway through Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties. It will continue on Interstate 15 in San Diego County and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cory Iverson, the firefighter who was killed while battling the Thomas fire, died of burns and smoke inhalation, the Ventura County Medical Examiner Office said Saturday. Iverson, 32, was assigned to the blaze as a part of a strike team from the California Department of Forestry and Fire... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With Facebook and Google controlling the vast majority of digital ad revenue, all industry eyes are on which media companies perform best on those platforms. For Facebook, the rankings are always a yo-yo, with publishers’ engagement waxing and waning along with the frenetic news cycle and... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic books are a brilliant medium, but keeping up with the latest releases can be expensive. If you live in the US, it's worth checking out Hoopla; the service is supported by more than 1,500 public libraries, and offers free digital access to DC, I... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In this week’s Rundown, we examine reasons Facebook and Google will be constrained in 2018, Wired’s play for digital subscriptions and more. The post The Rundown: Digital publishing’s crash landing appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 'new influencers,' a panel in Montréal's professional program asserted, are the ones who can reach consumer-readers where they live. The post Talking About the ‘New Influencers’: Social Media Specialists and Canadian Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of adult books were 9.8% lower in July 2017 than in July 2016, and sales in the children’s/young adult segment fell 36.8%, according to figures released by the Association of American Publishers as part of its StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk,' a nonfiction picture book written and illustrated by Jan Thornhill, has won the 2017 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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