The Impress Project aims to attract newspapers and publishers that want a regulator 'independent of owners and politicians'The former editor of the Sunday Times, Sir Harold Evans, is backing an initiative to set up a press regulator to rival the body being launched by the publishers of the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.He has agreed to act as patron to the Impress Project, which was launched on Sunday by charity adviser and former journalist Jonathan Heawood. Impress is a not-for-profit company that aims to develop plans for a Leveson-compliant regulator.Evans said: "I support these proposals for a regulator that would be wholly independent of government or commercial interests, committed only to enhancing the standards of the British press."The dual purpose of discouraging abuses and resisting encroachments on an essential liberty is altogether necessary to restore public confidence. It is a necessary condition of the freedom of the press to act in the public interest."Haewood has been working on the plans for months with a view to attracting newspapers, online publishers and magazines that do not want to be part of the Independent Press Standards Organisation being backed by Associated Newspapers, News UK and others.He said he expected to set up the regulator itself in the first half of 2014 and to seek recognition from the recognition panel that will be set up on the back of the government royal charter for press regulation which was rubber-stamped by the Privy... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Feminist Press will be publishing a Pussy Riot ebook later this month, the publisher has announced. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales jumped by more than £1m last week as sales of academic titles helped to offset... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder is planning its most "innovative" campaign for Jodi Picoult's next novel,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press has snapped up a title by two professors that deals with the relationship between... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), today invited the world's press to attend the 65th World Newspaper Congress, 20th World Editors Forum and 23rd World Newspaper Advertising Forum, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The battle to keep online advertising yields and returns high in a market of infinite volume and little scarcity rages on. But some publishers are deciding that it's not their fellow broadcasters, magazines and newspaper who are the problem but t ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Publishing is continuing to broaden its distribution channels, as the New York-based imprint has formed a partnership with Ingram Content Group that will make the company's ebooks available to competitors such as Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo. As you may be aware, there's some uneasy... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The German cabinet gave its backing Wednesday to a draft law extending copyright protection to snippets of news articles republished by search engines, although... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chinese publishers are strengthening their connection with Europe, as Commercial Press forms a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At least one entrepreneur sells positive book reviews to Amazon authors. How an apparently unreliable customer-review system might finally eat itself. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2012-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past five years, licensed books and supplemental educational materials have increasingly made their way into school libraries and classrooms. Educators have come to accept that licensed titles are a way to bring in reluctant readers and sustain interest in subjects like math and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Volunteers will take over the running of ten libraries in Surrey after the county council was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An independent bookseller who launched a campaign to encourage more people to shop on their high... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Limited is planning to get rid of 10 per cent of its photographers across the publisher's newspapers. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers and Apple fighting the US' Department of Justice over agency pricing have hit back... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a time when some university presses have cut back their publishing program or changed course, the MIT Press, which celebrated its first 50 years this spring, continues to look to the future—“relentlessly,” according to editorial director Gita Manaktala. “The retrospective glance doesn’t come... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raymond Chandler is the latest classic author to have a current writer take on his mantle, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cornwall council has announced a raft of privatisation plans, meaning key services such as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The basketball captain and father introduces a book series meant to encourage kids to pick up books and take control of their surroundings.NBA superstar Amar'e Stoudemire is so passionate about promoting literacy that he has a tattoo on his forearm that says "Read." This week, the 29-year-old... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For serial entrepreneur John Ossenmacher, cofounder, president, and CEO of ReDigi, which bills itself as “the world’s first pre-owned digital marketplace,” the copyright infringement case filed by Capitol Records in U.S. District Court in Manhattan at the start of the year to shut it down is... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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