Simon & Schuster UK is to publish The Art of Aardman, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the animation company. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's only fitting that the 25th anniversary edition of Karen Finley's “Shock Treatment” (City Lights: 144 pp., $15.95 paper) should come out in time for Banned Books Week, the literary holiday about which I feel most consistently ambivalent. If Banned Books Week represents, in many ways, a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Describe your role My job title is picture book designer but people outside the industry always think that I must illustrate all the books! Unfortunately I’m not that talented (though I do a mean stick man) so I end up describing my job as being an editor for the illustrators. Working in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We Go to the Gallery, a Peter and Jane-style satire of modern art, won Miriam Elia fans around the world – and a legal warning from Penguin. But that hasn’t stopped the artist-provocateur and her new imprint, Dung BeetleWhen Miriam Elia released a small book lampooning the art world, she might... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Bloomberg, the publishing mogul and former New York City mayor, will pump $4.5 million into L.A.'s nonprofit arts scene over the coming two years, as part of a national initiative by his Bloomberg Philanthropies to help small and mid-size arts organizations. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Just as portable paint tubes revolutionized the act of making art for painters like Monet and Renoir, the digital revolution is transforming the art book," writes critic Carol Strickland. The author of a digital book for iPad on impressionism in Erudition's Masterpieces of Art series,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first round of storytelling and myth-making about the wave of American filmmaking that temporarily conquered the culture in the late 1960s and 1970s, often called the New Hollywood or the American New Wave, focused mostly on the stories of men. The Rosetta stone of this type of scholarship... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rowman & Littlefield International (RLI), launched in 2013 as an affiliate of long-established US academic indie Rowman & Littlefield (R&L), has been quick off the starting blocks. From publishing two titles in its launch year, it will bring out 90 in 2015; over 50 series have been... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has expanded its Kindle Scout crowd-sourcing publishing programme to the UK. The programme was launched in the US last October and has been rolled out to other countries in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and India, among others. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ex-News of the World chief executive says it ‘feels good to be home’ following appointment as head of Rupert Murdoch’s UK publishing arm Good morning,It is a privilege to be back and many thanks for the warm welcome. Related: Rebekah Brooks' return confirmed as Tony Gallagher is named Sun editor... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s UK publishing business acknowledges Sun colleagues are still facing trial over alleged corrupt payments for storiesRebekah Brooks has described how good she feels to be back running Rupert Murdoch’s British publishing operation on her first day after being... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Book Group (HBG) is to handle sales and distribution for Hachette UK titles into the US from January 2016. HBG has been providing various sales and distribution services to Hachette UK for a number of years, including distribution into Canada, and North American services for Octopus... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Beginning in January, the Hachette Book Group will take over U.S. sales and distribution for Hachette UK as part of the effort by HUK to have all its English-language sales handled within the Hachette family. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins’ bestseller leads a crop of psychological thrillers, in a top 20 dominated by womenDark psychological thrillers dominate the list of the year’s bestselling ebooks unveiled by Amazon, with MP Nadine Dorries making it into a line-up composed almost entirely of female writers.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Philip Pullman has said the UK is run by “philistines and barbarians” as government plans appear to reduce the status of arts subjects in secondary schools. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marc Valli, managing director of the independent book and gift shop Magma and editor-in-chief of Elephant contemporary art magazine, has been appointed as art commissioning editor at Laurence King Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Struggling Heywood Hill bookstore in London has come up with a novel approach to sell books - it has appointed its first bookseller-at-large in Asia. The post Can an Asia Ambassador Boost a UK Bookstore’s Fortune? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publisher’s chief executive on taking his titles on to fresh platforms, the future for a free NME – and why he has been poring over vintage comicsMarcus Rich, the chief executive of Marie Claire publisher Time Inc UK, has been spending a lot of time buried in the company’s vast archives... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new exhibition chronicles the iconic artist's lesser known fascination with sea and sky.Roy Lichtenstein was once derided as the "worst artist in America," but time has proven him to be synonymous with 1960s Pop Art and cemented him in the annals of art history. After all, good art typically... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mouse Guard creator David Petersen talks about his evolution as an artist, as seen in this exclusive excerpt from 'The Art of Mouse Guard.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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