Tate to cut over 300 jobs at commercial arm

Tate has announced it is making 313 redundancies in its commercial operations, Tate Enterprises, including at its bookshops and publishing arm. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-12 12:23:19 UTC ]
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Library spending fell by £20m in 2019/20 amid warnings of further cuts

New figures show total spending on Great Britain's libraries fell by £20m in the last financial year, as Libraries Connected warned more budget reductions are on the way. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-04 10:12:19 UTC ]
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If The Job Fits: Magical Careers in Manga

Might be time to update the ol' resume! The magical gigs in these manga might make you want to ditch that nine-to-five. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2020-11-30 11:39:00 UTC ]
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Christie Tate Wrote a Best Seller About Group Therapy. Fellow Members Approved.

She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-11-12 10:00:04 UTC ]
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Christie Tate’s ‘Group’ is a sometimes salacious look at the secrets of strangers

Tate chronicles how her therapy group — and its zero-confidentiality policy — helped turn her life around. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-06 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to repay staff £700K in pandemic wage cuts

Bloomsbury has announced it will repay almost £700,000 to staff who took a pay cut during the first months of the pandemic, following the publisher's most succesful interim results since 2008. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 08:01:03 UTC ]
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Annie Bell | 'Cutting down on waste is an area where we can all contribute as consumers'

Last spring, Pan Macmillan announced the creation of One Boat, a new sustainability imprint from the team behind Bluebird. Its name references the power of “one—the idea that one person can make a significant impact; and that one changed habit can make a big difference”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-01 23:08:18 UTC ]
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Concern over jobs at CUP as press consults on roles

Cambridge University Press has confirmed it is consulting on shedding jobs in two areas of the organisation, in a development that is separate to its recently revealed merger with exams body Cambridge Assessment. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 12:22:34 UTC ]
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AT&T cuts more than 8,700 workers in third quarter amid Covid-19

The cuts are the biggest since the surge in employees at the time of the Time Warner acquisition in 2018. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-10-26 17:04:42 UTC ]
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How an Agency Cut Through ‘Purpose Clutter’ With Its Bookstore Campaign Trolling Amazon

In this David-versus-Goliath battle, mom-and-pop bookstores wrapped themselves in Amazon's familiar brown cardboard as a protest against the retail giant and a plea to shop local. The Instagram-ready stunt, with Amazon lookalike boxes covered in sick literary burns and topical quips, came... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2020-10-19 20:06:41 UTC ]
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A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia's Voter Registration Site

Plus: Barnes and Noble got hacked, Zoom adds real end-to-end encryption, and more of the week's top security news. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2020-10-17 13:00:00 UTC ]
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How Trump has turned the presidency into an arm of his own business

Forbes staff writer Dan Alexander argues the president has grotesquely abused public power for private gain. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
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“You think you’ve known someone for a long time,” a character in one of Jenny Bhatt’s short stories says of her Indian colleague shortly after he’s shot dead by a white man in a bar. “Maybe he never really took to us. Never really became one of us.” Turn by turn, each of his white […] The post... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2020-10-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
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V&A to close dedicated bookshop and cut 10% of staff as Covid-19 hits finances

The Victoria & Albert Museum is closing its dedicated bookshop and making 103 roles redundant across its retail and visitor experience teams as the Covid-19 crisis hits its finances. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 09:58:53 UTC ]
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The greatest job in the literary world is accepting applications again.

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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-09-24 16:47:43 UTC ]
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Sunak's Job Support Scheme welcomed by PA

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's new Job Support Scheme has been broadly welcomed by the Publishers Association and Creative Industries Federation. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 06:13:43 UTC ]
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Deborah Tannen’s ‘Finding My Father’ pays tribute to a man whose many jobs became his life story

With so many contemporary memoirs devoted to the sins of the author’s mother, a focus on a loving dad seems a welcome change. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-23 05:01:31 UTC ]
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Darley Anderson opens illustration arm

The Darley Anderson Agency has opened an illustration arm that will represent artists across both children's and adult lists.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 13:51:54 UTC ]
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How to turn your internship into a job

Harper Inspire's marketing and publicity manager Bengono Bessala – who first started working at the company as a trainee and is now a 2020 Rising Star – shares her top tips for securing a job after an internship.​   Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Facing up to the Biblical Job in 2020

Biblical scholars offer fresh insights this fall on the miserable, defiant, fascinating Job and the contesting messages across time in translations of the Book of Job. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Over half of Tate's London bookshop staff at risk of redundancy

More than half of Tate's London bookshop staff are facing redundancy, with several roles in its books team and publishing operation also at risk, The Bookseller has learned. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-16 14:07:35 UTC ]
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