Adam Tooze recounts the financial calamity and the efforts to save the global economy. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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As Turkey's nose-diving currency sets off alarm bells on world trading floors, Istanbul's Kalem Agency appeals to the publishing community for consideration from rights buyers: 'It's like being in a war.' The post Amid Turkey’s Spiraling Currency Crisis: An Appeal for Rights Acquisitions... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi sparked a manga fan frenzy during his first visit to Comic-Con; new manga and anime releases were announced and manga fans got to celebrate the induction of manga legend Rumiko Takahashi into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kevin Jared Hosein has won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his “uncanny bar story” combining “ideas of civility and ferality”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ethnic minority characters should feature in more books and not be defined by their "otherness". Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In her entertaining début the former White House stenographer reflects on her time spent working for the 44th president and extols the virtues of a ‘yes, we can’ approach. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Attending Palomar Fire Academy’s graduation ceremonies on May 31, 3-year-old Evie Iverson looked at the other families in the audience — and noticed how her family looked different. “I don’t have a daddy,” Evie told her mother. Ashley Iverson’s response was immediate: “You have a daddy,” the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biographies of religious and spiritual figures are enduringly popular, and readers have many new and forthcoming choices. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meyer's new trilogy pits supposed heroes against supposed villains—the Renegades versus the Anarchists— but of course it's not that simple. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Nobel Prize in Literature may not be awarded this year, following the sexual assault scandal that has rocked the Swedish Academy which governs the prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Week in Libraries, April 27, 2018: Among the headlines this week, changing the narrative on university press publishing; FSU says it will bail on its "unsustainable" Elsevier contract; and, is open access making a difference yet? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new exhibit at the National Building Museum brings Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning book “Evicted” to life, with photographs, data, and audio. “For those of us that have never thought about eviction, I want them to realize what it’s doing to our families, and our children and our... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A crowdfunding campaign has raised £12,000 to send a book on the crisis in the legal system to every sitting MP. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has been making attempts to restore people’s trust in what they come across in their news feeds. In the latest example, the company is rolling out new features that aim to give users more information about the publishers and stories they read. Originally conducted as a test last year,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Week in Libraries: March 30, 2018: At PLA, librarians show they ‘get it’; Libraries get a bump in the 2018 federal budget (and a warning for next year); And the New York Times looks at two of Wikipedia’s young citizen editors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s hard to fathom why Facebook’s number two has gone along with a crisis strategy that puts herself (and Mark Zuckerberg) squarely behind the curtain. Over the weekend it was business as usual on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s profile page. On Saturday, she shared two photos from a visit to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You've heard of Wonder Woman and Black Panther, but what about Queen Amina and Ireti Moremi? Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harlan Coben's new agreement with Grand Central reunites him with his long-time editor Ben Sevier, who published the author at Dutton before moving to GCP last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jay Asher, David Díaz, and others have been accused of sexual harassment and abuse in the comments section of a January 'School Library Journal' article as the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators deals with an unfolding controversy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following a big year for the publisher, which saw a change of leadership and an unexpected hit, the former Warner Books heads into 2018 with a handful of big books in the works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arts Council England’s report into the crisis in literary fiction should serve as a "wake up call" to the industry which needs to "radically rethink" how it presents the genre, the chief executive of Curtis Brown has warned. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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