Nikesh Shukla calls industry’s backtracking ‘a perfect loop-de-loop of blame’ as he is joined by Jon McGregor in a groundswell of readers and authors demanding more diverse representationMan Booker winner Marlon James: ‘Writers of colour pander to the white woman’Authors Nikesh Shukla and Jon McGregor have launched separate, scathing attacks on UK publishing for its failure to take diversity seriously, with Shukla asking “where are the brown people?” and McGregor slamming the eliteness of an industry which “work[s] to perpetuate an environment in which their own sort feel at home”.The broadside from the two writers follows the Writing the Future report, which found back in April that “an old mono-culture still prevails”, in British publishing, and called for change. But Shukla, who has led a groundswell of anger about the issue on social media after he highlighted the fact that the list of titles announced for 2016 World Book Night failed to include a single BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writer, said that publishing as a whole was keen to shift the blame elsewhere. Related: World Book Night criticised for all-white 2016 giveaway list Related: Battling bias on the shop floor: how bookstores can support diversity Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Penguin Random House is to publish Wattpad Books’ launch list in the UK this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Happy pub day to Keah Brown! Her debut memoir, The Pretty One, released today from Atria Books. To celebrate, we're publishing the unabridged version of Keah's interview featured in the Breaking In column of the September 2019 issue of Writer's Digest. You can catch Keah on the debut authors... Continue reading at Writer's Digest
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Netflix will produce a new series titled 'Zero,' an Italian-language show based on the work of 27-year-old Antonio Dikele Distefano, a formerly self-published Italian author whose books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies since he signed with Mondadori. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The US Senate Committee on the Judiciary has a markup session scheduled for the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act on Thursday (July 18). The post US Publishers Association and Authors Guild Renew Support for CASE Act appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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With some softness in educational sectors, the UK industry reports its crucial export sector is holding steady ahead of the potential upheaval of Brexit. The post The UK’s Publishers Association Releases Its 2018 Yearbook Report appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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UK publishing industry revenues overall stood at £6.05bn in 2018, down 2% on the £6.15bn revenue of the previous year, according to the PA Publishing Yearbook 2018, just released. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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[caption id="attachment_159345" align="alignright" width="150"] Brian Szejka[/caption] Brian Szejka was promoted to publisher of Rolling Stone, effective immediately, following publisher and chief revenue officer Andrew Budkofsky’s resignation from the company earlier this month. Szejka has... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Tom Burlison from Epsom, who is seven years old, has won this year’s Bedtime Story Competition, ran by Save the Children and The Book People. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pat Barker says she has a distrust of the publishing industry’s regional and class diversity drives because it could be "fashionable" and may not represent a long-term commitment. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Naomi Shihab Nye has become the first Arab American author to be named the Young People's Poet Laureate. Nye, a Palestinian American writer and longtime fixture of the San Antonio literary scene, is the seventh poet to be named to the post by the Poetry Foundation. Foundation Director Katherine... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Naomi Shihab Nye has become the first Arab American author to be named the Young People's Poet Laureate. Nye, a Palestinian American writer and longtime fixture of the San Antonio literary scene, is the seventh poet to be named to the post by the Poetry Foundation. Foundation Director... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Yorkshire-based Bluemoose Books has experienced the benefits of operating outside London; co-founder Kevin Duffy suggests other publishers should look beyond the confines of the capital, too. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After tasking former History Press m.d. Tim Davies to lead its expansion in the UK, Westchester Publishing Services has signed up a number of clients from this side of the Atlantic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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CILIP, the library and information association, is going to promote diverse and inclusive children’s literature via a new magazine, Pen&inc. The first edition of Pen&inc launches today (2nd May) with information about 450 titles, submitted by publishers ranging from Egmont and Hachette... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Dialogue Books is taking eight of its authors on a tour of the UK in May and November, kicking off with dates in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere non-fiction publisher Adam Strange has stepped down from his role and has left Little, Brown after 12 years with the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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People of Color In Publishing and We Need Diverse Books teamed up for a town hall this month that shows how far publishing has come regarding diversity—and how much further it needs to go. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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More than 7,000 librarians, 450 exhibitors, and nearly 300 authors and illustrators participated in the 2019 Texas Library Association Annual Conference, held April 15–18 in Austin. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The children's novelist inspiring BAME readers to see themselves positively in the stories they read. Continue reading at BBC News
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Less than 2% of authors and illustrators being published in the UK are British people of colour, new BookTrust research has revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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