They survived World War II — but were left stranded in Germany

Historian David Nasaw recounts the struggles of Jews and others who had no place to go. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

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World Cookbook Fair Coming to Frankfurt 2015

In 2015, the Frankfurt Book Fair will be staging The World Cookbook Fair, which promises to, according to the Frankfurt Book Fair, "bring the very best publishers and authors of the culinary sector." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair Partners with World Cookbook Fair

The Frankfurt Book Fair and the World Cookbook Fair have partnered to strengthen the international culinary and wine publishing community starting in 2015. The post Frankfurt Book Fair Partners with World Cookbook Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guardian CEO: 'The Idea We Will Survive By Becoming a Technology Company is Garbage'

The sky-high valuations of digital publishers such as BuzzFeed and Vox are fuelled by the idea that the media company of the future also has to be a tech company. Almost every new digital media business from Mashable to Pierre Omidyar's First Loo ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Squirl Creates Portal Between Literary, Real Worlds

Squirl, a Houston-based start-up company, plans to roll out, this month, the beta version of a location-based app intended to provide a high-tech portal between imaginary landscapes and their real world inspirations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Magazine World’s Oldest, Richest and Biggest Audiences

While the MPA's new Magazine Media 360 report aims to capture the raw reach of some of the industry's top brands, media research firm GfK MRI delves deeper into exactly who makes up those audiences. The company—which actually provides the MPA with its print and digital edition readership... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic Book Artist Phil Noto Drew A Stunning Poster For "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Everything about this is perfect—even the weird new lightsaber.There are a huge number of things that make Star Wars unique in terms of how movies are marketed—but one that doesn't get discussed much is the fact that the series' posters and one-sheets, rather than being photoshopped assemblages... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple's Eddy Cue on ebooks price-fixing war: 'I'd do it again'

iBooks chief fighting US court ruling that the company ‘conspired’ to fix prices in its competition with Amazon is defiant before trial. Tim Cook ‘feels the same’Apple goes before a US federal appeal court in two weeks to try to overturn a US Justice Department ruling on ebooks price-fixing. But... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poetry and Booker winner for World Book Night 2015

Poetry, Young Adult titles and a Booker Prize winning author feature on the list of books to be given away during World Book Night 2015. Special editions of the 20 titles will all be given away by thousands of volunteers, who can now begin applying to take part in the annual event on 23rd April... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mexican Kids Bookseller Tells of Struggle for Survival

The owner of the award-winning Catarina Marina bookstore discusses the day-to-day struggle of selling books to children in Mexico. The post Mexican Kids Bookseller Tells of Struggle for Survival appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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France, Germany want EU to take a tougher stance on tech firms

Germany and France have put pressure on the European Commission to take a closer look at how big tech companies operate in the European Union, a move which could lead to tougher competition regulation for companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon.com and Facebook.French and German officials asked... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Half of C&R staff have now left Little, Brown

More than half of staff at Constable & Robinson have left the publisher since Little, Brown Book Group bought the company, it has emerged. The formerly independent publisher was purchased by the Hachette division in February, with the Constable & Robinson team moving into Little,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To survive in the U.S., Chinese bookstores evolve way beyond books

At World Books on Atlantic Boulevard, Lily Li picks up the phone to transact one of her first sales of the day. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Shatner explores new worlds of self-publishing and Kickstarter

Star Trek’s Captain Kirk turns to crowd-funding to finance new book on how to reinvent yourself after 50He has battled the Klingons and boldly gone where no man has gone before as Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise, but now William Shatner is taking on a new mission: conquering the world... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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YA fiction treads carefully in the Arab world

Young adults dominate the Arabic book market, but publishers are acutely sensitive to the slightest challenge to conservative etiquetteThe boom in young adult fiction has left the Arab publishing world playing catch-up, as authors try to compete with Twilight and The Hunger Games without... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnston Press, Newsquest, Local World take on Facebook and Google

Regional newspaper publishers pool ad space to compete with tech companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon and Hachette call a truce in their ebook pricing war

Well, that was anticlimactic. Online retail titan Amazon and the publisher Hachette have been sniping at each other for months because they couldn't see eye to eye on how much ebooks should cost (and how much revenue Amazon should get off of them).... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Imperial War Museum library threatened with closure

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) has confirmed it is consulting on restructuring its organisation, in changes which staff say could see its library close and up to 80 people lose their jobs. Altogether, the institution, made up of several museums around the UK, is seeking to reduce annual... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Wolf Among Us offers a taut whodunit in a fairytale world gone awry

After several years of honing its skills on properties like Back to the Future and Sam & Max, Telltale Games nailed its episodic storytelling approach with 2012's brilliant The Walking Dead. It forced you to make moral and strategic choices while trying to survive the undead uprising, and... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How The News Business Can Survive Facebook

The social network's plans to control even more of the media industry squeezed a collective gasp out of publishers. Was that a last breath?Facebook recently wrapped up a "listening tour," hoping to lure publishers across the United States to deliver their content pages and news feeds to... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sale anticipated for Germany's Thalia

The dismantling of German retailing group Douglas by its American owners Advent International is gathering pace, and with it speculation that a sale of the Douglas-owned book chain Thalia is imminent, possibly even this year. The largest brick-and-mortar bookseller in the German-speaking... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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