Wigtown to premiere McCall Smith's song cycle

This year's virtual Wigtown Book Festival will host the world premiere of Alexander McCall Smith's song cycle, "Ninian's Gift".  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 14:58:18 UTC ]
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AT&T and Time Warner hope to break the cycle of failed mergers

AT&T’s blockbuster bid for Time Warner Inc. might be a boon for investment bankers, lawyers and lobbyists, but it is anyone’s guess whether investors, employees and consumers ultimately would benefit from the combination. Since the $85.4-billion deal was unveiled last weekend, AT&T Chief... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wigtown bookseller's diaries to Profile

Shaun Bythell - owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop - is to publish his "wry and hilarious" diaries about bookselling with Profile Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brew and Wong right on song

Octopus imprint Mitchell Beazley has signed the first title from the founders of craft beer brand BrewDog as well as a food book from BBC presenter James Wong. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hutchinson pre-empts debut Swan Song in six-figure deal

Debut novel Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott has been acquired by Hutchinson in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Saturday Night Live' scores its highest premiere rating since 2008

The presidential election campaign and Alex Baldwin’s impersonation of Donald Trump gave the season premiere of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” a big ratings lift. Saturday’s 42nd season kickoff averaged a 5.8 rating in the overnight markets measured by Nielsen. The figure is 29% higher than the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan buys two Jennifer E Smith YA novels

Macmillan Children’s Books has bought the UK and Commonwealth rights to two novels by US YA writer Jennifer E Smith. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Optimism High at Premier Christian Fiction Conference

After several years of angst over falling sales and shrinking fiction output, all sides seem to be looking forward at the 2016 American Christian Fiction Writer’s conference. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Telegraph built a tool that auto-creates graphics of Premier League goals

The Telegraph has automated its data-visualization tool for sports, Robologger, in time for the Premier League. Each time a goal is scored an interactive graphic of the goal is published to the site. In the coming months this will extend to Twitter and Facebook Messenger. In time, more rules... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Death of Wiley's Steve Smith

Steve Smith, the former president and c.e.o. of John Wiley, has died at the age of 61. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Obituary: Former Wiley CEO, Steve Smith

Smith, the former president and CEO of John Wiley and Sons, died on July 10 following a long illness. He was 61. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WH Smith Travel to pass on VAT savings

WH Smith Travel will now pass on tax savings to non-EU bound customers shopping in its airport branches. The "new approach" follows an investigation that revealed it had been pocketing millions of VAT paid on duty free purchases. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former PRH publicity director Higgins-Galsworthy joins Premier

Former Penguin Random House publicity director Natalie Higgins-Galsworthy has joined creative communications agency Premier to enhance its offering to the publishing industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WH Smith appoints McKechnie as travel director

Retailer WH Smith has appointed Gavin McKechnie as the international operations director of its travel division. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sky Movies rebrand to feature one premiere a day

Service to become Sky Cinema from 8 July, offering more releases including Star Wars: The Force AwakensSky will premiere a new film every day, including the latest Star Wars film this summer, as part of a rebrand of Sky Movies as Sky Cinema. The move will see a 75% increase in the number of... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ali Smith and Max Porter join trade in making cultural case for Remain

Withdrawal from the EU would lead to "suffering" in the creative industries, according to an open letter signed by 220 thought-leaders in the literary world, including 2015 Baileys winner Ali Smith and Granta editor Max Porter, recent winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Refugee Tales features stories from Smith and Cleave

Tales by Ali Smith and Chris Cleave are to contribute to a short story collection highlighting the “frighteningly common” experience of Europe’s refugees. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WH Smith doubles donations for Readcycle 2016

Marie Curie and WH Smith have partnered to launch their second Big Readcycle to help support people living with a terminal illness. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The song of Solomons

After a middling start to life as a published author, The British Book Industry Awards' Children’s Book of the Year winner David Solomons found his feet at a publisher that went the extra mile. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Han and Smith win £50,000 Man Booker International prize

The winner of the "newly evolved" Man Booker International Prize 2016 is The Vegetarian by South Korean author Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Obituary: Peter Janson-Smith

Writer Jeremy Lewis on the life of Peter Janson-Smith, a notable literary agent "of the old school". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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