Macmillan and Southbank Centre have teamed up to put on an immersive theatre production to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As part of the Imagine Children’s Festival, sponsored The Book People, which takes place from Monday 9th February to Sunday 22nd February, Southbank Centre will be transformed into a wonderland with Alice in Wonderland themed interactive installations, workshops and pop-up theatre. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AsciidocFX is a cross-platform open-source markup editor for building PDF, HTML, ePUB and MOBI ebooks, documents, slides and more. It’s not the easiest package to use, but could still have a lot of appeal for anyone creating academic, technical or scientific documents. Getting started is simple.... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sensing an opportunity to reduce its reliance on third-party providers, The Washington Post has created a platform for email newsletters that is available for sale as part of its Arc suite of editorial and technology products.Newsletters are a big focus in digital publishing, where homepage... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rise of multiple platforms and screen sizes, along with the scary adoption of ad blocking, has publishers obsessing over user experience. Publishers including Mic, The Atlantic and Slate are hiring UX specialists while putting testing on steroids. Beyond ad blocking, the hope is that a... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alice Jolly has been awarded 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize, the UK’s only literary prize dedicated to memoir and autobiography, for crowdfunded book Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard Dawkins, Eimear McBride and Margaret Atwood are among the names featuring at Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is creating 1,000 new permanent jobs in the UK, on top of the 2,500 roles previously announced in January, as it gears up for its “biggest Christmas ever”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To celebrate the publication of two new books by bestselling Italian author Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions is launching a scholarship program for U.S. booksellers to attend overseas book fairs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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13 international book fair directors gathered in Mexico to discuss their progress and evolving viewpoints on the industry and its trade events. The post Sharing Experience, Expectations: Book Fair Directors Meet in Mexico appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roald Dahl's Matilda may have her own stage show but Australian author Jacqueline Harvey's Alice-Miranda character has snaffled her first animated international television series. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the past year or so, Facebook has conditioned advertisers and publishers to create video that can be understood without sound, as more clips that play automatically (and silently) when users scroll fill news feeds. With 100 million hours of video viewed every day and the explosion of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Ebooks are essentially Web sites in wrappers. So what happens if you take the wrappers off?' One answer lies in the layered reading world of Strata, a digital storytelling project from Penguin Random House and a host of collaborators led by Dan Franklin. The post ‘Experiences and Story’: PRH’s... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing has created Bonnier Publishing Australia in a bid to expand further into the Australian and New Zealand markets. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thames & Hudson has created a Museum and Institutional Publishing Division dedicated to the company’s projects with its co-publishing partners. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While the five books presented at the BEA Selects: Children's panel session were from small presses, they all made a big impression on the audience. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors are basically storytellers who do their thing on the printed page (or on your favorite electronic device), instead of around the kitchen table or wherever people gather to swap stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Building relationships in one's local community is key to creating productive and profitable events, a panel of four veteran booksellers told an audience of 50 at BEA on Wednesday. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage has released a special 3D paperback edition of Haruki Murakami’s first two novels Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We asked publishing pros at yesterday's Digiday Publishing Summit for their scout's-honor stance on how they're pitching native, who's buying, and more. Here's what they said in 5 charts. Sponsor content by Nativo. The post Infographic: 50 percent of publishers recruit editors to create native... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The time was ripe to create a professional organization that unites French and Francophone literary agents.' And so, the Alliance ALF is formed in Paris. The post French Literary Agents Create a Professional Alliance appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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