Yan's debut novel overturns the tropes of the romance novel in this story about an immigrant's doomed pursuit of marriage and the American dream. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Follett Corp.’s acquisition of Baker & Taylor marks the end of B&T’s 188-year run as a standalone company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Many digital publishers are pushing into video, spurred on by growth-hungry VCs and content-starved platforms. But while video is lucrative, there are no guarantees that scale on Facebook will translate to meaningful revenue. Meanwhile, on TV these companies face the problem of competing with... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House Germany recently launched an online community for romance readers and a literary festival to connect romance writers to their fans. The post Random House Germany Courts Romance Readers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By the time I hit publish on this review, something interesting had happened: Dell revealed that its XPS 15 laptop was outselling the smaller XPS 13. How could that be? Most flagship notebooks these days have 13-inch displays or smaller. And for good... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Good's memoir explores the difficult marriage of his father, a student of cultural anthropology, to his mother, a young Yanomami native. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon thrilled comic book fans recently when it announced it was moving forward with its revival of “The Tick,” a new live-action series based on the comics by Ben Edlund that have already spawned an animated series, a short-lived live-action series (both on Fox) and a video game. Rumors have... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook and KLM revealed Wednesday that the airline's customers can get flight confirmation, access boarding passes, receive check-in reminders and view flight status updates via Facebook Messenger. Through April 20, users of KLM's service on Facebook Messenger will have a chance to win two... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Widespread library closures across the UK have resulted in the loss of almost 8,000 jobs in the last six years, according to a report by the BBC. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Willow Summers’s 'Please' series nabbed two top slots behind Harlan Coben's latest on the iBooks bestsellers chart for the week ended March 27. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg is arriving on Delta Studio, the airline’s in-flight streaming platform. Up to 10 episodes of three series, including one, Delta-only version of “With All Due Respect,” will be available to stream. Bloomberg’s video licensing business brings in “millions” of dollars annually, according... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A record 57% of marketers and agencies are allocating 20% or more of budgets to digital advertising, including 23% who earmark more than half of their spending for digital, according to the most recent in a series of studies published by RBC Capital Markets in partnership with Ad Age. Two... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Key figures in the American publishing community are unified in their call for a lift of the US embargo of Cuba as it pertains to books. The post Cuba’s Book Embargo Tackled by Trade With White House Petitions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malorie Blackman is excited about the publication of her first standalone novel in four years but has warned that “some people won’t be happy” about its frank depiction of sex. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A deep dive into hiring practices across the industry shows that publishers care about diversity, but many haven’t taken effective steps to bring about lasting change. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple's last shot at avoiding a $450 million ebook price fixing settlement just went out the window. The US Supreme Court has declined to hear Apple's challenge of an appeals court decision that left the company on the hook for allegedly conspiring... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What are Ivy League students reading that the rest of us aren't? More British literature and more philosophy. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A canny fiction strategy is paying dividends for Scottish indie Black & White. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bell, the once-embattled lead pastor of Mars Hill Church, is drawing on his own experiences with risk, failure, and integrity in a guide to ‘How to Be Here Now.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An important riposte to digital culture, these essays by the Italian publisher and author argue that a publisher’s list is a literary work in its own rightThis collection of essays by the Italian author and publisher Roberto Calasso, translated by Richard Dixon, is a paean to publishing. Calasso... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children prefer print books to ebooks for both reading for pleasure and reading for education, a study by reading charity BookTrust has found. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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