Warner Bros. subsidiary DC Comics is bringing its comic books to life for its 2018 SXSW activation. The film and TV studio brought several vehicles from two Batman films, as well as last year's Justice League, allowing festival-goers to get up close and personal with movie history. "They decided, this is SXSW, [so] we're going... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emily Barrett, commissioning editor at Seven Dials and Orion Spring, has acquired world rights including dramatisation rights to a book about life inside a women’s prison by a former prison art teacher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion imprint Seven Dials has acquired the world rights to social media star Rebecca Meldrum’s first book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"We generated revenue from brands. If content was so important, you’d think we would be trying harder to please publishers." The post ‘Publishers were always a second priority’: Confessions of a former Facebook exec on the platform’s struggles with video appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter’s been on a tear to prove that even with a smaller audience than Facebook and YouTube, it can be a worthwhile destination for ads and publishers. The post Twitter’s Sarah Personette: Video and ‘brand purpose’ will continue to take center stage appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susan McNally, author of The Morrow Secrets trilogy, has died at the age of 64. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Union inroads into media have many observers predicting a better long-term future for beleaguered newsroom employees. The post Rise in union activity is clashing with digital publishing’s business struggles appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tons of comic books have come to life as movies, but researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology have developed a system for turning live-action video into a comic. Comixify picks out the best frames from any video you feed it and turns it int... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First Media decided to join Snapchat after the platform no longer required publishers to share only exclusive content. The post Viral publisher First Media joins Snapchat with repurposed Facebook video appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Belfast International Airport has teamed up with BookTrust in Northern Ireland to launch activities and events for school children. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK has revealed it is "actively looking" to open more offices outside of London, and PRH UK has said it is "considering" regional offices, following a discussion on the importance of regional diversity and what more can be done to promote it in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti floated the idea of a merger between big digital publishing companies. Here's how a merger could -- but ultimately won't -- help. The post Video Briefing: The pros and cons of a digital media merger appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s is publishing an LGBTQ+ activity book by illustrator and activist Dom&Ink next May. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Investigative journalist John Carreyrou has won the £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award 2018 for Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Picador). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Created at the height of Victorian prudishness, the Bodleian Library’s Phi collection was designed to protect young minds from ‘immoral’ books. More than a century later, they’re going on display for the first timeLibraries today take a dim view of censorship. They are places where knowledge is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For queer publishers, life can be tough: despite the corporate love of all things LGBTQ, there’s no money in itSomeone has queered the magazine shelves of McNally Jackson, the boujee bookstore in Soho, New York. The shelves are throbbing with thick, glossy, high production magazines with titles... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An anonymous civil servant’s "hilarious and horrifying" account of government amid Brexit chaos will be published by Headline in March 2019, a few weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has bought another book from the anonymous author of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zoe Sugg’s non-fiction debut Cordially Invited (Hodder & Stoughton) has made itself at home in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 19,804 copies for £201,749. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group imprint Orchard Books will next year publish a picture book about a secret agent elephant by author Eoin McLaughlin and illustrator Ross Collins. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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