The Handmaid’s Tale to air on Channel 4 this month

The TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (Vintage) will be shown in the UK on Channel 4 this month after the channel acquired rights to the drama series. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #sthe handmaid #drama series

Other Publishing stories related to: 'The Handmaid’s Tale to air on Channel 4 this month'


Rolling Stone’s Publisher and CRO Exits After 12 Months in the Role

Publisher and chief revenue officer Andrew Budkofsky is out at Rolling Stone after just one year in the role, parent company Penske Media Corp. (PMC) has confirmed. "Rolling Stone and Andrew have agreed upon a mutual separation," says a rep for PMC, the publisher of Variety and WWD, among... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #rolling stone #caption id=


NewFronts Day 4: Meredith, Target and YouTube cap the week

We’re in the home stretch of the Digital Content NewFronts. We’ll start the day with Meredith in its first NewFronts presentation since selling off Fortune and Time. (In April, Meredith took Money magazine off the market and discontinued its print edition. Sports Illustrated is still up for... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #reality tv #red carpets #content side #original content


March Religion Bestsellers: ‘Universal Christ’ Debuts at #4, Francine Rivers Stays #1

Franciscan priest Richard Rohr breaks the top five in religion nonfiction with his reflections on the nature of God in ‘The Universal Christ,’ while the trade paperback edition of Francine Rivers’ ‘The Masterpiece’ is #1 for its second consecutive month in fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #religion nonfiction #consecutive month


Media Companies Lean Into Trusted Brands, Established Channels for Marketing Services

[caption id="attachment_153707" align="alignright" width="290"] Creative from "Merrell Magic," a custom-content campaign by AIM's Catapult Creative Labs and Backpacker magazine.[/caption] Requiring deeper insights and data, broader access to audiences and agency-like services from publishers,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #email newsletters


‘Feminist Fairy Tales’: Authors Talk About Writing ‘Other Kinds of Books’

An interest in ‘how women reframe stories in a feminist framework’ and more was part of the discussion in a Market Focus Indonesia panel at the London Book Fair earlier this month. Editor’s Note: As we look today at comments from women authors, particularly in the Indonesian market, we’d like to... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #authors talk #women authors #international women


Scholastic sees third-quarter revenue boost of 4%

Scholastic has reported a revenue rise of 4% year-on-year in its third quarter for the three months to 28th February, increasing from $344.7m (£261.3) to $360.1m (£273m) thanks to its children’s publishing division. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #revenue rise #4% year-on-year #28th february #publishing division


'Upbeat' refugee tale wins children's book prize

The Boy at the Back of the Class is "a future classic", Waterstones Children's Book Prize judges say. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book prize #future classic #waterstones children


Syrian refugee inspired tale sells to HCG

Hachette Children’s Group has acquired a picture book inspired by the refugee crisis in Syria by Rachel Ip and Anneli Bray. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #hachette children #refugee crisis


Ebury seals secret Second World War tale

Ebury has won a five-publisher auction for Svenja O’Donnell’s book about her grandmother’s secret life in Second World War Germany. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #five-publisher auction #secret life


Editors flock to prison tales and true crime while literary fiction flies pre-LBF

True crime, “professional confessional” memoirs and titles that look into “sealed worlds” are the hottest non-fiction trends, according to agents who spoke to The Bookseller ahead of next week’s London Book Fair.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #true crime #bookseller ahead


C&W snaps up 'ground-breaking' Iris Murdoch tale in five-way auction

Vintage imprint Chatto & Windus has triumphed in a five-way UK auction to snap up “ground-breaking” non-fiction title The Quartet, based on the lives of philosophers Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Elizabeth Anscombe. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #uk auction


Little, Brown bags rights to Second World War tale Liberation

Little, Brown UK has acquired world rights for a fictionalised take on Second World War hero Nancy Wake, due to be turned into a movie by Anne Hathaway. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #brown uk #anne hathaway


This Week's Bestsellers: March 4, 2019

In its fifth week on sale, ‘Maid’ by Stephanie Land debuts at #19 in hardcover nonfiction. Plus Darria Long Gillespie’s ‘Mom Hacks’ enjoys some southern hospitality, and James Patterson’s ‘The Chef,’ first released in an interactive, condensed format, pubs in print. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #hardcover nonfiction #james patterson


Book Deals: Week of March 4, 2019

Paul Rudnick writes a gay romance, 'New York Times' reporter Jeffrey Gettleman’s chronicle of a missionary’s death goes to Holt, Overlook buys the first novel in English by a Kurdish woman, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book deals


Rock the Boat to mark Black History Month with new poetry title

Rock the Boat, part of Oneworld, has acquired a picture book that explores race and identity by US poets Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #picture book


Hudson 'welcomes' class survey on Radio 4 Today programme

The Bookseller’s survey into class was discussed on BBC Radio 4’s “The Today Programme”, with author Kerry Hudson welcoming the data. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #class survey #today programme


Canongate grabs Thorn's tale of women in music

Canongate has acquired a second book from singer and author Tracey Thorn, My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend, about "rock ‘n’ roll love affairs" and female friendship. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #female friendship


Doubleday scoops Rainsford's debut in 4-way auction

Doubleday has acquired a "ground-breaking" literary debut, Follow Me to Ground, by Dublin-based writer Sue Rainsford, following a four-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #literary debut


Chatto & Windus snaps up Cumming's tale of mother's disappearance

Chatto & Windus will publish Observer art critic Laura Cumming’s “astonishing” memoir uncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child, entitled On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #chatto windus #missing persons


The Guardian view on Dan Mallory: a twisted tale of publishing | Editorial

The story of Dan Mallory, aka the bestselling author AJ Finn, reads like a thriller. But it asks uncomfortable questions of the literary worldA true story worthy of a Patricia Highsmith thriller was published this week in the New Yorker. The magazine detailed the deceptions of Dan Mallory, who... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #white men #hachette uk #year announced