Waterstones is partnering with the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award to celebrate the best emerging talent in the UK and Ireland, hosting exclusive accompanying content across all its channels. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Erdrich's 'The Round House' wins for fiction and Boo's book chronicling life in a Mumbai slum wins for nonfiction. David Ferry wins for poetry and 'Goblin Secrets' wins Young People's Literature.Novelist Louise Erdrich and journalist Katherine Boo took the top prizes at the National Book Awards... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones will look to expand is business from next year if the chain records a good Christmas... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards were given to writers Louise Erdrich and first-time author Katherine Boo in the fiction and nonfiction categories, respectively, while William Alexander and David Ferry were awarded the young people's literature and poetry prizes. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erotic tale earns nomination for the National Book Award, while another surprisingly sexy tale is also making waves in Britain. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2012-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erotica star E. L James will go head-to-head with authors such as Victoria Hislop, Bernard... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hurricane Sandy has blown book sales in New York City and several other US East Coast... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can fraudulent writers, aka Johah Lehrer, ever be forgiven? Or should they simply be cast into permanent exile from the literary world? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The short list for the 1962 National Book Award in fiction was remarkable, including a number of works today regarded as classics, like Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Yet the prize went to an obscure first novel by a... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press title Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power has won the Financial... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While many predicted Hurricane Sandy could follow in the footsteps of "Geronimo" and the Arab Spring--a shining moment for social media and citizen-journalism--Time turned to Instagram ahead of the storm. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s no secret that the job description for newspaper publishers is evolving, often on a day-to-day basis. As readers and advertisers are presented with an increasing number of outlets to direct their attention and dollars, newspapers have ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin, HarperCollins, Profile, Bardowl and The History Press have been shortlisted for a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Epubli, the Holtzbrinck-owned German self-publishing platform, reflects on its methods and motivations for running a book prize suitable for the 21st century. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the Kindle goes on sale at Waterstones stores, MD James Daunt has been defending the highly criticized decision, insisting it is to his company's advantage. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E.L. Doctorow, Michael Henry Heim and many other poets, authors and translators were given awards and honored during the 2012 PEN Literary Awards. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones has launched a “light-hearted” branding campaign to coincide with selling... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad revenue at The New York Times Co. declined 8.9% in the third quarter from the quarter a year earlier as print ad revenue dropped 10.9% and digital ad revenue slipped 2.2%, the company said today. Circulation revenue, however, increased 7.4% on the strength of growing digital subscriptions and... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A group of writers are quids in following an experiment to sell a bundle of DRM-free ebooks. Sales of The Humble Bundle, which included works from authors Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman and the much-loved xkcd comic strip, have been anything but humble, with over 84,000 bundles sold, earning the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the writers behind disaster-prone Spider-Man Broadway musical, Glen Berger, will reveal all in a "fly-on-the-wall" book. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Celebrating 20 years, Beirut's Francophone Book Fair will honor the Goncourt Academy and launch a new book prize, despite recent escalated violence in the city. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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