Transworld pre-empts memoir by Jewish Dutch resistance fighter

Transworld has pre-empted a memoir by Jewish Dutch resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor Selma van der Perre. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 21:39:29 UTC ]
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Facebook faces increased publisher resistance to Instant Articles

As subscription growth becomes more top of mind to publishers, Facebook's fast-loading article feature is losing favor. The post Facebook faces increased publisher resistance to Instant Articles appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alec Baldwin accuses HarperCollins of sloppy editing on his memoir

Claiming that his memoir, Nevertheless, contains “SEVERAL typos and errors”, the actor has decided to publish his own clarifications on FacebookAlec Baldwin, whose impersonations of Donald Trump have skewered the thin-skinned US president for the amusement of Saturday Night Live audiences for... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld scoops The Secret Footballer

Transworld has signed The Secret Footballer, a professional player who writes anonymously about the Premier League in his books and Guardian columns. The anonymous writer will publish a new tell-all exposé with Transworld in May. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline acquires new Charlotte Crosby memoir

Headline Publishing Group has acquired a new memoir from Charlotte Crosby, Brand New Me, about "the ups and downs of the past year", publishing on 29th June 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HoZ acquires 'moving' Dutch bestseller

Head of Zeus has signed Dutch bestseller A Jihad For Love by Mohamed El Bachiri. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hollie McNish's poetic motherhood memoir wins Ted Hughes Award

Writer, performance poet and YouTube star Hollie McNish has won 2016's £5,000 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Junior doctor's memoir to John Blake

John Blake is publishing a junior doctor's memoir, Your Life in My Hands, that it says captures "the extraordinary realities of life on the NHS frontline" at a time of "unprecedented crisis". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible buys rights to Robyn Travis memoir

OWN IT! has sold audio rights to Prisoner to the Streets by Robyn Travis to Audible. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter Extends Pre-Roll Video Ads to Periscope Livestreams

Periscope videos will start showing pre-roll ads on Twitter.The media service is expanding a program it uses to push pre-roll video ads ahead of clips from publishing partners on the platform, and will now serve commercials before Periscope livestreams. On Tuesday, Twitter announced the new ad... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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France Offers Pre-Frankfurt Fellowship to Canadian Publishers

Building 'relationships between English-speaking Canadian publishers and French counterparts,' the 'Books in Translation' fellows will travel to Paris. The post France Offers Pre-Frankfurt Fellowship to Canadian Publishers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Maggie O'Farrell memoir to tell of 'brushes with death'

Tinder Press is publishing a memoir of near-death experiences from Maggie O'Farrell, which she says will be "the only non-fiction book I will ever write". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Behind the Dutch Bestseller, 'A Jihad for Love'

This memoir, written by the husband of a victim of the March 2016 terror attack in Belgium, has become a bestseller in the Netherlands. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wren & Rook buys memoir from transgender YouTuber

Hachette Children's non-fiction imprint Wren & Rook has acquired the memoir of UK transgender YouTuber Alex Bertie. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paperback fighter: sales of physical books now outperform digital titles

It can be cheaper to buy the physical copy of a book than a digital download thanks to changes in Amazon’s deal with publishersAt the start of this decade publishers feared the death of the paperback. Britons abandoned bookshops at an alarming rate, seduced by e-readers and cheap digital... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury seals 'first of its kind' dementia memoir

Bloomsbury has won a “hard-fought” auction for Somebody That I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell, an NHS worker who was diagnosed with Young-Onset Dementia aged 58. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fayard to be French publisher of Obama memoirs

Editions Fayard will publish Barack and Michelle Obama’s memoirs in the French language, chairman and c.e.o. Sophie de Closets has announced Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus makes Wise move for joint memoir

Quercus has signed Not That Kind of Love by actor Greg Wise and his late sister Clare. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dying doctor's memoir up for £30,000 prize

Bill Gates was "super-touched" by a moving tale shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Publishing at London Book Fair: Literary Fiction, Suspense, Memoir

Amazon Publishing, the largest publisher of translations, will be at the London Book Fair with a rights list of suspense, memoir and literary titles. The post Amazon Publishing at London Book Fair: Literary Fiction, Suspense, Memoir appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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