Emma Straub, Curtis Sittenfeld and Lydia Millet all offer escapes from our current reality. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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More children are going digital, according to Scholastic's latest study, and the percentage of boys reading passionately and for fun is up, while girls are down. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Schools Reading competition has launched today, with up to 200,000 children in years... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Which writers (apart from EL James and Suzanne Collins) are dominating the best-selling book lists? Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laura Hazard Owen sums up the problem with book discovery like this: “It doesn’t really work." She offers several solutions gleaned from Digital Book World 2013. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French culture minister Aurélie Filippetti has dismissed the idea of abolishing the 5%... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From corporate consolidation to book discoverability, to how books are produced and bought, to the proliferation of new devices to read them on, this year’s Digital Book World was a whirlwind tour of the industry’s changing landscape. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Looking back on this week's Digital Book World conference, we distill the event into three key ideas: price innovation, discoverability and authenticity. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You want an idea to survive hundreds or thousands of years? Step one: Don’t write it on paper. Alexander Konta believed this deeply. Paper yellows and withers and crumbles; it is the printed form of Alzheimer’s. “Why not make [text] imperishable by photographing the written word after it has... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has named Richard Costa as an associate partner for Brazil and South... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How two gallery owners found 'Rhoda's Ocean' – an unpublished children's book hiding under a pile of laundry. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo increased its global e-ink device sales by 150% in December, making it the "biggest... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More young people than ever are getting involved in reading schemes at their local libraries,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Add to the growing list of prize shortlists the latest from the NBCC, which includes just a single translation: Lauren Binet's HHhH, translated by Sam Taylor. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Audiobooks.com launched a year ago, the service’s distinguishing factor was that it provided unlimited audiobook listening for a flat $25 monthly fee. On Monday, the company changed course and switched to a two-tier pricing model for a specific number of books. Audiobooks.com now charges... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The late journalist Anthony Shadid, Los Angeles writer Reyna Grande and the novelist Zadie Smith were among the finalists announced Monday for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards. The late journalist Anthony Shadid, Los Angeles writer Reyna Grande and the novelist Zadie Smith... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Brown, bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, is to release a new book in May called Inferno. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards are getting a rewrite.New rules announced Tuesday include a "long list" of 10 nominees to be offered for each of the four competitive categories before being narrowed to the traditional five finalists. And the pool of judges will be expanded beyond writers to include... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children's Books has made further changes to its publishing team, appointing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Union Books has acquired a "strikingly original" non-fiction debut, The Will to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Local and national booksellers discuss some of the books they're most anticipating in 2013.Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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