Actress Kristin Scott Thomas has joined Lily James and Armie Hammer in the cast of Netflix’s film of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Good Literary Agency has made two new hires, Nicola Chang, of Aitken Alexander Associates and Arzu Tahsin, former publishing director of Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clarivate analytics has acquired AI start-up Kopernio for an undisclosed sum, with the latter’s co-founders Jan Reichelt and Ben Kaube to join the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DK is moving with its sister company Penguin Random House UK from 80 Strand to One Embassy Gardens in the Nine Elms development. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s annual ‘dirty dozen’ list misses some obvious targetsCosmopolitan has been removed from the checkouts at Walmart in the US, which the chain has attributed to a business decision, although it accepts that “concerns raised were heard”. The conservative... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The MILD Group has appointed Alexander Spears as sales and marketing manager at The Indigo Press, the new publishing house that launched in October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Finding Your Feet” would be facedown on the ground if it didn’t have its well-burnished cast of U.K. acting heavyweights, led by Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Another entry in the fast-spreading genre of pensioners-are-people-too comedies, it finds Staunton’s... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix's fondness for comic book industry veterans isn't cooling off any time soon. The streaming giant has ordered Cursed, an Arthurian drama based on an impending novel co-authored by comic legend Frank Miller (of 300 and Sin City fame) and produ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK-based independent publisher Alanna Books has rebranded as Alanna Max as a result of Ken Wilson-Max joining the company in the role of co-publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Curr, formerly president and publisher of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group, is joining HarperCollins as president and publisher of HarperOne, Amistad, and Rayo. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Atria Publishing Group head Judith Curr has been named president and publisher of HarperCollins's HarperOne, Amistad, and Rayo units. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US author Angie Thomas has been crowned the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018 for her debut YA novel, The Hate U Give (Walker Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christian ethicist’ Rebecca Todd Peters wrote “Trust Women” to offer “a good moral framework for thinking about reproductive questions” that could help guide the public debate about the issues. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More men are joining the Romantic Novelists' Association and writing romantic fiction under their own names as the genre overcomes a "lurking literary snobbery", RNA chair Nicola Cornick has said, after two men won prizes in its flagship awards for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nancy Dubuc has been named chief executive of Vice Media, the millennial-focused digital content company. Vice announced the appointment Tuesday, a day after Dubuc said she was leaving her role as chief of A+E Networks. Dubuc is succeeding Shane Smith, Vice’s freewheeling founder, who will become... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta Publications has appointed Foyles' head of marketing Simon Heafield to a new role following a restructure of its sales and marketing team, triggered by the departure of sales, marketing and digital director Iain Chapple. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple is acquiring Texture, a digital magazine servicedubbed by media industry observers as "Netflix for magazines"that lets users subscribe to more than 200 titles for $9.99 a month.Texture, offered via the app stores of Apple, Google and Amazon.com Inc., bolsters Apple's efforts in online... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leah Middleton, agent at Aitken Alexander, is joining Marjacq Scripts Ltd to take on a role as its in-house film and TV agent, starting at the end of March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On the back of the success of his latest book Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir veteran cartoonist, political journalist and all-round dyslexic polymath Tom Scott will be the subject of a "roast" on Sunday where a group of writers, theatre makers and Wellington personalities will haul the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On the back of the success of his latest book Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir veteran cartoonist, political journalist and all-round dyslexic polymath Tom Scott will be the subject of a "roast" on Sunday where a group of writers, theatre makers and Wellington personalities will haul the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hello! This week in books, things are a bit quiet, and in print, we gave a page to our colleagues in film for our Academy Awards coverage. I’m Carolyn Kellogg, books editor, and this week’s newsletter will be a quick one. THE BIG REVIEW Walter Mosley is widely known for his Easy Rawlins series,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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