Fashion legend says: 'The living deserve respect. The dead deserve the truth... this will be my story'Doyenne of British fashion Dame Vivienne Westwood, credited with inventing punk style then bringing it to the catwalk, has sold rights to an autobiography. It will be co-written by Ian Kelly, a writer and actor who played Hermione's father in film versions of the chidren's bestseller Harry Potter.Westwood, 72, said: "The living deserve respect. The dead deserve the truth; Ian and I are working together on this and I am excited that this will be my story, the story nobody ever did before."Kelly's previous books include a biography of Beau Brummell, a Regency figure who revolutionised men's fashion, introducing full-length trousers in the place of knee breeches. His 2008 account of the life of legendary lover, traveller and memoirist Casanova won the Sunday Times biography of the year award.Kelly said that he wanted "to tell the truth" about a "warm and witty individual, whose face and clothes are known the world over, but who is also recognisably the Derbyshire primary school teacher who met and fell in love with Malcolm McLaren." The story will be told by Kelly partly through Westwood's own input and partly through contributions from family, friends, and associates including Prince Charles, Jerry Hall, Bob Geldof and Julian Assange.Westwood was born Vivienne Swire in Derbyshire, and moved to London in her late teens. She was married, divorced and was bringing up her... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In spring 2015, Dover Publications, which is best known for paperback reprints of classics and out-of-print titles, is launching Dover Graphic Novel, a new line of graphic novels and nonfiction comics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst CTO Phil Wiser described how the company plans to catch up to its audience, 50 percent of which is reading on mobile devices. The post Hearst CTO on the publisher’s plans for the future appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton will publish the autobiography of singer Mick Fleetwood this autumn. Non-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following consultation, there has been a second wave of redundancies at U.K.-based house, Quercus. The cuts have resulted in a staff of roughly 40 people. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing is on the scout to acquire other publishing companies as it seeks to double... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Software companies, once on the periphery of Christian book publishing, find themselves increasingly taking center stage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook says that hundreds of online companies have adopted its plan to let mobile apps operate more like the world wide web, seamlessly linking together in much the same way that pages do inside your web browser. According to Facebook’s Vijay Shankar, these companies have published over 3... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink Publishing, the adult non-fiction imprint from the Bonnier Publishing Group, has secured... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Out of Print, the film documentary by Vivienne Roumani about the state-of-affairs in the book business and the culture of reading in America circa 2013, is worth seeking out. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The planned acquisition of Perseus, by Hachette Book Group and Ingram, is off. David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus, said that, despite much effort from all three parties, an agreement could not be be reached on "everything necessary" to close the deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The memoir of an Al Qaeda double agent will be released this August and 'Captain Phillips' helmer Paul Greengrass could direct the film adaptation. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abrams ComicArts will publish 'The Art of Peanuts in' Fall 2015 in conjunction with a new Peanuts feature film, in addition to 'Trashed,' a new book by Derf Backderf ('My Friend Dahmer') on garbage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling's crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith will eventually outnumber her Harry Potter books, she reveals. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sir Alex Ferguson is to write additional material covering events at Manchester United since his... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zane, bestselling erotica author, entrepreneur and publisher of S&S/Atria’s Strebor Books imprint, is teaming up with Verge Entertainment, a New York City transmedia production house founded by Shawn Martinbrough, Joe Illidge and Milo Stone. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comic book writer Alan Moore says a council's plans to sell a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue valued at about £6m "could only be catastrophic". Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook and two outside social scientists recently published a scientific paper in which they revealed that they had manipulated users’ news feeds to tweak their emotions. Since then, there has been a growing debate over the ethics and practice of Facebook experimenting on its users, as... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ala Alsallal, founder of the website Jamalon, says there will be an entire section on the website devoted to selling banned books. Alsallal hopes to make banning books so pointless that governments stop doing so. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following the notice B&N sent to customers that it is shutting down its downloadable audio section, a spokesperson for the retailer told PW the company plans to re-enter the market at some point in the future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink Publishing is to publish a “revealing new autobiography” by Rio Ferdinand,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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