Waterstones partners with Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

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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Young-adult books by Fiona Paul, Eric Greitens and others this fall

YA promises diversity with historical fiction, paranormal romance, murder mysteries and thrillers.YA promises diversity with historical fiction, paranormal romance, murder mysteries and thrillers. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christopher Little agency partners with Curtis Brown

Christopher Little Literary Agency LLP is entering into a new association with Curtis Brown.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Manchester marks fifty years of Clockwork Orange

An exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange opens... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New NY Times CEO could make $10.5M

The New York Times Co. named former BBC director general Mark Thompson as its new CEO earlier this week, and now comes word that he will receive a pay package totaling as much as $10.5 million, including an annual salary of $1 million, according to Bloomberg News. Mr. Thompson, who was... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones starts readying stores for Kindles

The first digital units are beginning to be built into the Waterstones bookshop branches, as the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ICM Partners Turns Books into Film and TV

Bestselling authors Cormac McCarthy, Walter Isaacson, the late Nora Ephron, and Jennifer Egan are among the many authors represented by ICM Partners, whose book sales are boosted by the adaptation of their work to film and television, all under the watchful eyes of agents Ron Bernstein, Josie... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Sunday Conversation: Martin Amis talks 'Lionel Asbo,' money

The story is about a criminal who wins the lottery, and the author has moved to America, land of the super PACs, so money is on his mind.Martin Amis, once dubbed "fiction's angriest writer," continues dissecting the absurdity and excesses of postmodern society in his latest novel, "Lionel Asbo:... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus dominates Bloody Scotland's new award

Quercus dominates the shortlist for the inaugural Scottish Crime Book of the Year award,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic partners with RSPCA for publishing programme

Scholastic has partnered with animal welfare charity the RSPCA for a two-year publishing deal,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of property leaves at Waterstones

Head of property Andrew Milner-Walker has left Waterstones after 10 years "to pursue other... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC, Riot and Viking on PR Week award shortlists

Books and publishing have a strong representation in this year's PR Week awards,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gore Vidal appreciation: Writer served as canary in a coal mine

To him, the world was both subject and spectacle. Yet he remained, always, an author difficult to categorize.Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday night at age 86, was a fixture on the American cultural landscape for so long that it seems hard to imagine our literature without him. From 1946, when his... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton signs Granta-tipped writer

  Hamish Hamilton has signed up a novel from South American writer Daniel Galera, a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones changes store guidance on events

Waterstones has issued new advice to its bookstores on running author events, after concern that... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Head office reshuffle at Waterstones

Waterstones has made further changes to its head office personnel, with Neil Best taking up the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time To Unpackage: Publishing In The Age Of Social Media

Social media is young and its impact on news publishing is still unfolding. It’s unlikely that sharing and commenting will be the only major trends to emerge from the social revolution. News publishers, already beset by extraordinary change ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones chooses Aytmatov as Book of the Month

Waterstones will feature Jamilia by Kyrgyzstan author Chingiz Aytmatov, originally published... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones in Bromsgrove closes

Waterstones in Bromsgrove is to hold its last day of trading tomorrow (27th July) before the shop... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-publishing Goes Big Time

If it wasn’t clear before that self-publishing is transforming the book industry, Pearson’s $116 million acquisition of self-publishing vendor Author Solutions Inc. should wipe away any lingering uncertainty. The purchase of Author Solutions—which has 1,600 employees, has published 150,000... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After Great Year, Scholastic Tries For Encore

Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games,” Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net income jumped from $39.4 million to $102.4 million. The... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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