Laura Venning joining The Reading Agency in the newly created role of impact research manager. Venning will lead on developing a framework to help the charity assess the impact of reading for pleasure and reading for information, in a post funded by the Peter Sowerby Foundation. Venning comes to The Reading Agency from Booktrust, where she has been leading their work to provide evidence about the impact of their programmes. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Derek Stordahl, formerly executive v-p at Bloomsbury USA, has been appointed executive v-p and general manager of Holiday House Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Libraries Taskforce has pledged to undertake research into community-managed libraries following concerns about their "long-term sustainability". It has also promised to create a new "peer support network" to ensure that libraries run by volunteers provide a “high quality service” to local... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The document urges Trump to pursue “policies that respect the principles that have allowed the internet to become what it is today." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vogue has a new digital executive editor, The Atlantic pulls from BuzzFeed, and more... The post Bloomberg Businessweek Eliminates Publisher Role | People on the Move — 11.30.16 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers including AS Byatt and Philip Hensher say Commonwealth and British writers face greater struggle to find readers, now ‘dice are loaded’ AS Byatt, Philip Hensher and Susan Hill have joined authors backing Julian Barnes’s call for the Man Booker prize to exclude US writers once again, a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fran Owen, publicity director at Atlantic, is joining Vintage as publicity director for Chatto & Windus, Hogarth and Square Peg in a job-share role with publicity director Mari Yamazaki. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishers Association is launching a new campaign, The Textbook Challenge, after an independent survey found that 63% of primary and secondary teachers in English schools could be "making more use of textbooks" - while one in five don’t use them at all. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Bloomsbury U.S. publishing director George Gibson is joining Grove Atlantic as executive editor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marketer Lindsay Terrell, who was given a BMS Award this week for her work on Tim Burgess’s Tim Book Two (Faber), has joined Penguin General in the role of campaigns manager. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jenny Geras, currently publishing director of Arrow at Cornerstone, has been appointed to build a new commercial fiction team at Bookouture. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion Publishing Group has appointed Emad Akhtar, senior commissioning editor at Michael Joseph, as publishing director for Orion Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Larry Burstein, who has served as publisher of New York magazine for the last 13 years, is leaving that role, he announced in a memo to staff Friday morning.Mr. Burstein was on his third term as a New York magazine employee -- he worked as an account executive in the early 1980s, returned in... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Patricia Cornwell has revealed that the intensive research she undertakes for her books has left her with post-traumatic stress. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marla Frazee did not immediately start planning what she'd wear to the premiere when Dreamworks Animation optioned the rights to her 2010 picture book, 'The Boss Baby.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Carrie Plitt will be joining Felicity Bryan Associates in Oxford as an agent on 31st October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agent Lucy Luck will join Conville and Walsh on 1st November, departing Aitken Alexander Associates where she has been a senior literary agent since November 2014. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As part of Keywee's efforts to bring together the New York publishing community, we are teaming up with The New York Times and Digiday to discuss how The Times approaches topics like audience development, reader engagement, and content distribution, as well as trends in digital publishing. We... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three new independent publishers are to join the Northern Fiction Alliance which intends to position the north of England as a "centre of publishing excellence". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's been a disruptive decade for the book business, but Pew's latest research suggests that Americans' reading habits have remained relatively stable. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laurence King Publishing has appointed illustrated book editor Chelsea Edwards and visual arts specialist Philip Contos as senior editors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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