Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a forensic psychologist on the TV series Cracker and Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died. Continue reading at 'CBC'
[ CBC | 2022-10-14 17:36:32 UTC ]
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Children's book artist Erik Blegvad, who illustrated more than 100 books over his career, dies aged 90. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google announced a new partnership with comScore today that it said will improve its ability to tell brand marketers about their digital campaigns. Google touted a new measurement tool—available to DoubleClick advertisers and publishers—that will deliver real-time data about who is seeing ads... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Suchet CBE has recorded the first ever full-length audio version of the New International... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On-demand streaming site ended 2013 with net profits of $112m despite rise in cost of international rights and commissioningNetflix is committed to spending almost $3bn on TV and film content in 2014 and more than $6bn over the next three years, as the cost of securing international rights and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling appears to suggest the boy wizard would have been a better match for Hermione Granger than Ron Weasley in a new magazine interview. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that it has partnered with Google to deliver K-12 core curriculum through Google Play for Education, Google's content store for K-12 schools. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dunkin' Donuts, which has scored social-media points all football season with its Vine-ESPN play, is extending that initiative through Super Bowl weekend with a dedicated push. The brand last night published the first of three fun, historical, Super Bowl-themed Vines that will appear as... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reports are emerging that the director is taking legal action against the site which linked to his leaked screenplayQuentin Tarantino has filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker Media for disseminating copies of his latest script, according the The Hollywood Reporter. A copy of his new script,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer Gillian Flynn has acknowledged rewriting the ending to her novel Gone Girl (Weidenfeld... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A growing number of publisher sites are now shunning the concept of finite "pages" as vehicles with which to serve content, opting instead to do so with seamless, often endless feeds and streams. The concept of a page, which is largely a hangover from the world of print media, suddenly seems... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Rosenthal, former managing director of Secker and Warburg, has died at the age of 78.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Value of film and TV downloads, streams and subscriptions rises to £621m, and number of tracks streamed doubles to 7.4bnAfter five years of decline, sales of entertainment products such as music, films and video games were growing again last year because of booming digital services such as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reading a novel stimulates the brain for days, US researchers have found. The study,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher who helped break down legal barriers against pornography dies in Brooklyn after long battle with illness Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The release of the latest Hunger Games film, backlist titles such as Harry Potter and success... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A seasonal selection of new (and not so new) books about language that are anything but dullBooks about English fall into various categories, mostly offputting ones: the academic, rarely of much interest, and often incomprehensible, to the general reader; the lament for a (mythical) golden age... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Atkinson, Robert Harris, Malala Yousafzai, David Jason and David Walliams were among the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big publishers have a natural advantage over smaller competition. Increased purchasing power, data collection and cross-marketing opportunities are a few of the perks of having multiple magazines in different markets. The ability to experiment and make mistakes is a less tangible, but equally... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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André Schiffrin died in Paris on Sunday of pancreatic cancer. In Schiffrin's nearly three decades at Pantheon Books, he worked with writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras and Gunter Grass.When André Schiffrin ¿ who died in Paris on Sunday of pancreatic cancer at age 78 ¿ was fired in 1990 as... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former New York Observer editor was known as cultural arbiter and was credited with cultivating style of influential paperPeter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write a column called "Sex and the City" has died. He was 59.Kaplan died... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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