Ridley Scott is on board to produce a film adaptation of Anita Moorjani’s book about her four-year battle against cancer (Hay House). Scott has teamed with Giannina Facio and Colet Abedi to option Dying To Be Me, which will be produced through Ridley Scott Films and Cara Films Ltd, reports Deadline. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Innovation Leader co-founder and Boston Globe columnist on launching a print magazine in an increasingly-digitized world. The post Scott Kirsner on Innovation Leader’s New Print Launch appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press’ ONE imprint continues to go from strength to strength under Elena Lappin’s leadership after its fourth book, The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma, was shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to a literary thriller with an anti-apocalyptic streak, The Fireman, in a new direction for horror author Joe Hill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A direct sales force of 5,000 young mothers has increased sales for Indonesia's Pelangi Mizan publishing group fourfold in the last three years. The post Direct Sales Is a Key Strategy for Top Indonesia Publisher appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A move from Paris to Los Angeles has bolstered graphic novel publisher Humanoids's standing in the film world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Avengers? The Dark Knight? Weird Science?! Picking a page-to-screen winner isn't easy. But then, neither is CGI.In Fast Company's September issue, we speak with Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman to hear how he took America's favorite flesh-eating zombies from the pages of comic books to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Channel 4 is set to broadcast a 30-minute animation based on Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s bestselling picture book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The channel’s chief executive officer Jay Hunt and head of drama Piers Wenger commissioined the programme, striking a deal with Walker... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2015 Teen Choice Awards, held at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, drew more than 25 million voters online and to social media outlets including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Voters chose their favorite teen icons in film, television, music, sports, fashion, comedy and on the Web. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adaptive Studios, an unusual new venture that repurposes abandoned movie scripts into books and other media projects, plans to rev up its book program with three new releases in the fall and as many as 16 titles in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US author Jennifer Niven is writing the screenplay for her YA novel All the Bright Places, which is published in the UK by Penguin Random House. The book, published last January, is about a girl who learns to live by becoming friends with a boy who intends to die. It is longlisted for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"I don't see the logic in going digital-only," says Diversion Books founder Scott Waxman. Even as the newly launched and determinedly digital Canelo Publishing announces its latest book — P.W. Singer and August Cole's Ghost Fleet — other parts of digital publishing seem to be running in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a long struggle with cancer, the founder of Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, N.Y., passed away on Sunday July 19. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Educational Development Corp. added 1,862 home sale reps in the first quarter, helping to drive a 59% jump in sales in the home business division. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the first full day of Comic-Con unfolded in San Diego, one of the biggest stories is the continuing push, from publishers, to release more diverse material for a wider audience. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Core sectors stay flat, while ancillary categories generate interest. The post Magazine M&A Moves In Two Directions appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gibson Square is publishing the first edited paperback edition of Sir Walter Scott’s biography of Napoleon, which was originally released in nine volumes in 1827, six years after Napoleon’s death. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Spurling has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel set in imperial China, The Ten Thousand Things (Duckworth), a book which is said to have been rejected 44 times by publishers. Spurling beat off competition from Martin Amis, Helen Dunmore, Hermione... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A novel set in imperial China wins the £25,000 Water Scott Prize for Historical Fiction at the Borders Book Festival. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Nicholls’ Us (Hodder & Stoughton), which was longlisted for last year’s Man Booker Prize, is being adapted into a drama for the BBC. The novel is being adapted by Drama Republic, who recently produced “The Honourable Woman” for BBC2, according to Broadcast. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC is adapting Hilary Mantel’s novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, following its recent adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (all Fourth Estate). The 1992 novel tells the story of three young men who were key... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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