Weidenfeld & Nicolson editorial director Federico Andornino has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in Tiffany McDaniel’s Betty. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 02:17:27 UTC ]
The slumping stock market has led Scholastic to cancel its “Dutch auction” in which it planned to buy up to $200 million of its common stock from shareholders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Election years are always good news for publishers. Not only does reader interest spike (particularly when polarizing candidates are ahead), but advertiser interest is also at its peak, as more campaign managers look for new ways to influence voters. Traffic to the top politics sites has... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The inaugural Walter Dean Myers Award for outstanding children's literature in the YA category has been given to 'All American Boys' by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anuradha Roy has been awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 for her "stark and unflinching novel", Sleeping on Jupiter (MacLehose Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Laura Ruby got the phone call from the Printz committee this past Sunday, informing her that she had won the 2016 award, she was attending a lecture at Hamline University in St. Paul. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Howe has won the £20,000 T S Eliot Prize for her debut collection Loop of Jade – the first time a debut has won the award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Mother’s Story, the “gripping and heart-wrenching novel” from Amanda Prowse about a young mother struggling to cope with postnatal depression, has won Sainsbury’s Entertainment on Demand’s ebook of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The tech space is crowded with news sites. Some, however, have been more successful than others. Gadget site CNET, for example, has attracted the largest audiences to its site and to its videos on YouTube and Facebook. When it comes to social, the most successful publisher of tech news is The... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matt de la Peña has won the 2016 Newbery Medal for ‘Last Stop on Market Street’; Sophie Blackall has won the 2016 Caldecott Medal for 'Finding Winnie'; and Laura Ruby has won the 2016 Printz Award for 'Bone Gap.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Sympathizer' and Sally Mann's 'Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs,' landed the ALA's top adult book awards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2015 have been revealed, with Kate Atkinson winning in the Novel category for the second time in three years. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government's hand-picked candidate Daniel Scioli, the governor of Buenos Aires province, was so heavily favored to win by a wide margin that he didn't turn up for the first presidential debate. Mr. Scioli, who is also from a wealthy family and lost an arm in an accident years ago while... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Lee returned, Marlon James took the Booker and Terry Pratchett made his final bow. The year also saw literature drawn into shocking violence in Paris, fierce arguments over diversity … and a colouring-book frenzyThe year opened in tragedy, as two masked gunmen opened fire at an editorial... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sophomore Spencer Freedman made seven three-pointers and finished with 24 points in Mater Dei's 78-46 win over Long Beach Wilson in the North Orange County tournament. Mater Dei improved to 8-0. Ayala stayed unbeaten with an 81-43 win over Paramount. Servite defeated El Modena, 73-35. Pearson... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British poet Sarah Howe has been awarded The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award for her first collection of poems, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus), described as an “enthralling personal exploration of her dual heritage." Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre has acquired Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan - "a unique exploration of love, loneliness and reconciliation" - following a "fierce" six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marlon James has won the Green Carnation Prize, awarded to LGBT writers, for A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate has signed My Absolute Darling, a debut novel from American author Gabriel Tallent, after an eight-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s book The Fox and the Star by aPenguin cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith has beaten Harper Lee and Paula Hawkins to be crowned The Waterstones Book of the Year 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Benjamin Myers has won the £10,000 Portico Literature Prize 2015 for Fiction while Richard Benson won the £10,000 Portico Prize for non-fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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