Months after President Donald Trump's lawyers slapped Macmillan with a cease-and-desist letter in advance of the publication of Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury,' the president has done the same to Simon & Schuster and Omarosa Manigault Newman's 'Unhinged.' Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg published an eyebrow-raising report Thursday night about a draft proposal being prepared by the Trump administration that would subsidize the coal industry in part by invoking a Cold War-era law intended for use in national security emergencies: Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Jonathan Lethem (the author of 'Motherless Brooklyn' and many other books), who works at his craft every day, is so upset he doesn’t want to write, something is very, very wrong. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk has described himself as being "close to broke" after an accountant at his literary agency was arrested for embezzling $3.4m (£2.5m) from the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK’s sales are up 1.4% in the first quarter of 2018, spurred on by Michael Wolff's January bestseller Fire and Fury (Little, Brown Book Group). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'My colleagues and I are suffering real-time damage triggered by this act.' Glenn Rollans and Kate Edwards of the Association of Canadian Publishers, along with John Degen of the Writers' Union, testify in hearings on the Copyright Modernization Act. The post ‘Fix Our Marketplace,’ Canadian... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has splashed out six figures on a “near future thriller” set in an America addicted to consumerism, following a “hard-fought” 10-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Trump administration says it will strip legal protections for 86,000 Hondurans who live in the U.S., the latest group of longtime undocumented residents who now face the prospect of deportation back to their troubled home countries. Kirstjen Nielsen, the Homeland Security secretary, on Friday... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The loss of quick reads, which is treasured by many, will isolate parents and continue the nation’s literacy lull, argues Baroness Rebuck DBE. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agency creatives famously maintain all sorts of side projects, from a collection of fonts based on late rock stars' handwriting to a book based on an Instagram account summarizing millennial life. These efforts tend to get political (as so many things do these days), and ad folk have been... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publication of former FBI director James Comey’s upcoming book about President Trump has been brought forward to tomorrow (Tuesday 17th April) to coincide with the US, after attracting widespread publicity over the weekend. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the official publication Tuesday of former FBI director James Comey’s memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” another round opens in the high-stakes Washington wrestling match between Comey and the president of the United States. Trump, self-cast in the evil wrestler mode — as he puts it, "When someone... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After two days of testimony on Capitol Hill, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know: He’s sorry — really, really sorry — about that Cambridge Analytica thing, and he’s open to some degree of internet regulation. Is he really sorry? If contrition is measured in a willingness to put on a suit... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Disappointed about the high rate of evangelicals who voted for Trump, John Fea tells PW that he hopes his new book will encourage Trump voters to re-examine their relationship with the President. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Donald Trump's presidential campaign has boasted often that it made better use of Facebook's advertising tools than Hillary Clinton's campaign did. An internal Facebook white paper, published days after the election, shows the company's data scientists agree."Both campaigns spent heavily on... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The role-playing adventure books sold 20m copies in the 80s, before being eclipsed by video games. Now they’re back with a new story by Charlie Higson, can they captivate the web generation?Ian Livingstone calls it the “five-fingered bookmark”: that grip known to children of the 80s and 90s.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five decades after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., thousands of people began to gather on the downtown streets of this Southern city and across the country to mourn his death, celebrate his life and rekindle his struggle for economic and social justice. In an echo of King’s... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon shares took a hit after President Donald Trump attacked the online store on social media, this time accusing it of not being on a "level playing field" with “fully tax paying retailers” and of ripping off the US postal service. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-04 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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