The parts of J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir that didn’t make it into the movie. Continue reading at 'Slate'
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The Avengers? The Dark Knight? Weird Science?! Picking a page-to-screen winner isn't easy. But then, neither is CGI.In Fast Company's September issue, we speak with Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman to hear how he took America's favorite flesh-eating zombies from the pages of comic books to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Channel 4 is set to broadcast a 30-minute animation based on Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s bestselling picture book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The channel’s chief executive officer Jay Hunt and head of drama Piers Wenger commissioined the programme, striking a deal with Walker... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adaptive Studios, an unusual new venture that repurposes abandoned movie scripts into books and other media projects, plans to rev up its book program with three new releases in the fall and as many as 16 titles in 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former publicist Clare Hall-Craggs is joining Book Trust to look after laureate Chris Riddell, as Katherine Woodfine is leaving her role as arts project manager at the charity. Hall-Craggs is joining Book Trust on an “ongoing basis” and will take on responsibility for looking after Riddell,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont Books’ marketing director Mike Richards has left the company following a reorganisation of the marketing team. Richards has been in marketing at Egmont for 15 years, promoting authors and brands such as Michael Grant, Lemony Snicket, Jim Smith, Winnie-the-Pooh and Star Wars. He would... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s hardly news that the magazine has become an endangered species. It’s a development I had the misfortune of witnessing first-hand during my brief but eventful tenure as assistant literary editor of the New Republic in Was ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three new books from religious publishers are casting a critical eye on the economy this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US author Jennifer Niven is writing the screenplay for her YA novel All the Bright Places, which is published in the UK by Penguin Random House. The book, published last January, is about a girl who learns to live by becoming friends with a boy who intends to die. It is longlisted for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate’s non-fiction publishing director Katy Follain is to leave the company “to pursue new career opportunities within the industry”. The publisher said she “played a key role within the editorial team”. Among the titles Follain acquired during her time at Canongate were James Rhodes’... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion General m.d. Lisa Milton has officially left the company. Earlier this year, Orion Publishing Group’s parent company Hachette UK announced major changes in senior management at the publisher. Orion c.e.o. David Young will retire at the end of the year, with Little, Brown c.e.o. David... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik laments the closing of a bookshop in Paris, ultimately tying it to a loss of a kind of personal freedom. The post Elegy for a Lost French Bookshop…and Freedom appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Nicholls’ Us (Hodder & Stoughton), which was longlisted for last year’s Man Booker Prize, is being adapted into a drama for the BBC. The novel is being adapted by Drama Republic, who recently produced “The Honourable Woman” for BBC2, according to Broadcast. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Information m.d. Kathy Rooney has left the company as part of a restructure. Rooney, part of the senior management team at the publisher, left at the end of May to pursue other opportunities, beginning with a non-executive role at information management platform Librios. Vafa... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC is adapting Hilary Mantel’s novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, following its recent adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (all Fourth Estate). The 1992 novel tells the story of three young men who were key... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has pre-empted Mr Smiley by Howard Marks for a “solid six-figure sum”. The book is the follow-up to Marks’ autobiography Mr Nice, about his life in the marijuana trade that ended with him receiving a 25-year prison sentence in America. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W H Smith’s book director Michael Neil will be leaving the business at the end of May. Neil joined W H Smith at the beginning of 2014 as its business unit director for books. In this role, he has been responsible for the full books and ebooks offer at WH Smith High Street and has delivered a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malcolm Edwards has announced that he will step down as deputy CEO and publisher of the British house at the end of 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google says it will give European publishers â¬150 million (NZ$213.6 million) to help them adapt to the challenge of selling news online. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC has commissioned two TV series based on books by crime writer Mark Billingham, the author revealed on “BBC Breakfast” this morning (21st April). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones' director of buying Kate Skipper will take maternity leave at the end of the month. In her absence, Melissa Cox, head of range and children's, will assume responsibility for the new titles and publisher liaison teams, while Caroline McNulty, category manager for related products,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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