Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching won the Orwell prize. Then, a year later, it became the centre of a storm that would engulf the lives of the author, her critics and dozens of people in the book trade. So what happened?At the end of March, a book that had been condemned to die came back to life. There was no star-studded launch, and no great fanfare, although this book is now somewhat famous. The new publisher of the poet Kate Clanchy’s memoir Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me felt it wrong to cash in on the controversy that has engulfed it. So the new editions – with some intriguing changes to the original text – were quietly resupplied to bookshops willing to stock them.What follows is a tale that reverberates well beyond publishing. It’s about whose voice is heard, which stories are told, and by whom. But it has broader implications for working life, too, particularly in industries where so-called culture wars raging through the outside world can no longer be left at the office door. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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BARCELONA, Spain--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--At Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that more than 16 million digital publications were powered by Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite across tablets o ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emerging authors and illustrators have made every category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards this year, alongside their better known counterparts. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specialist publishers are expanding their digital strategies, with Wiley, Aurum, Icon and Lonely... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A creepy professor eavesdrops on a woman's therapy sessions and becomes obsessed with her.By Blood Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With care and craft, the novelist and essayist seeks to summarize Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 art film 'Stalker,' finding elements that will keep the non- cinéaste onboard.Zona Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite technological petting zoos, QR codes on shelf-talkers linked to bookstores’ Web sites, and in-store displays of physical books with signage reminding readers that they can also buy e-editions, only a handful of independents are making more than about $100 or so on ebook sales a month. To... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Square One Publishers’ founder Rudy Shur, Beyond the Magic Bullet—The Anti-Cancer Cocktail: A New Approach to Beating Cancer, which his company released earlier this month, is the culmination of a three-year personal connection he forged with the book’s author, Dr. Raymond Chang. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The death of language is explored via plague-carrying children and their horror-struck parents in a wildly inventive tale by Ben Marcus.Spend too much time with 24-hour news networks and it's easy to feel that exposure to that much talk can make you sick. Taking the idea a few steps further,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK publishers have expressed concern Amazon’s use of “power” to remove the e-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown is publish J K Rowling’s first novel for adults worldwide in the English... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A collection of early comic books - including those featuring the debuts of Batman and Superman - is sold for $3.5m (£2.2m) at auction in New York. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As publishers attempt to make online advertising a profitable and engaging business model, real time bidding on Web inventory by prospective clients is becoming more prevalent. Conde Nast launched a private Web ad exchange with AdMeld for select clients in late 2011, and now smaller publishers... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Charlestown, Mass. bindery still makes books by hand, using a 19th-century production model. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Research Triangle, NC –February 21, 2012 – iMedia Revenue Ltd., a company dedicated to delivering the latest advanced editorial and advertising solutions to local newspaper agencies, today announced the launch of a BloggingWriters ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Kelly, husband of former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will release his children's book about a mouse in space this fall. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Knox, who had her murder conviction overturned in October, will publish a memoir through HarperCollins. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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and Matthew Flamm - Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert, who has more time on his hands now that he's no longer running for president, will publish his first children's book in May, his publisher, Grand Central Publishing, announced on Tuesday. Viewers of The Colbert Report got the word early... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV host Stephen Colbert has written a children's book about a flag pole trying to find out who it really is. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press has signed a two-book deal with Jenny Barden, who is this year's organiser of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 'Enemies: A History of the FBI,' Tim Weiner ('Legacy of Ashes') offers a scathing indictment of the FBI, before J. Edgar Hoover and since.Each week, the FBI sends reporters an email of "top ten news stories" that it hopes will hit the headlines. The press releases usually highlight crooks... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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