Gretchen Treu and Wes Lukes, co-owners of A Room of One’s Own in Madison, Wis., were named the 2021 Superstars at last night’s virtual celebration of PW Star Watch, a program that honors up-and-coming creatives in the book business. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Centre for Writing (NCW) and British Council has announced they will award more than £50,000 to collaborative projects from UK and international literature organisations and practitioners. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-12 00:28:03 UTC ]
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Michael Rosen’s "timely" poetry collection about migration, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is the winner of this year’s CLPE Children’s Poetry Award (CLiPPA). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 14:31:18 UTC ]
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The Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Assocation's annual trade show, its first in-person gathering since 2019 was a celebration of a community's resilience, as new booksellers were welcomed to the gathering. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The books we love coming out this week include new titles by Lindsay Ellis, Gregory Galloway, and Mondiant Dogon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Dog Eared Book hosts few author events and has no local school partnerships or large initiatives underway. But as it approaches its seventh anniversary, the Palmyra, N.Y., store represents something rare in American bookselling today: it is simply a bookstore, and a highly successful one at... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Ad Age Studio 30 live panel with EY and Thomson Reuters discussed the lessons and insights gleaned from the past year-plus and how the global firms partnered to build Thomson Reuters' just-launched customer-centric digital initiative. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2021-10-07 19:30:00 UTC ]
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His novels and short stories are populated with refugees from war, colonialism and historical injustice Continue reading at The Economist
[ The Economist | 2021-10-07 16:46:03 UTC ]
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The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to the Tanzanian author whose English-language novels include “Paradise,” “By the Sea” and “Desertion.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-07 11:03:10 UTC ]
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The U.K.-based English-language Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” He is the fifth... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Inkitt, a data-driven publishing house, has scooped $59m (£42m) in funding from investors including the owner of Macmillan, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, and former c.e.o. of Penguin Michael Lynton, to accelerate the company's continued global expansion, with sights set on San Francisco for a new... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-06 12:10:03 UTC ]
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The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association convened the first in-person fall regional conference to take place since the start of the pandemic in Portland, Ore., this week, attracting 180 booksellers, 150 publishers and 50 authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2021 Digiday Technology Awards are recognizing the tech companies driving the digital media industry forward. See this year's nominees. The post Yieldmo, Quotient and InMobi join this year’s Digiday Technology Awards nominees appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2021-10-05 18:30:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for this year's Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) Industry Awards has been announced, with four new categories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 04:36:35 UTC ]
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Hanif Abdurraqib, Anthony Doerr, Ge Fei, and Lauren Groff are among this year's National Book Award finalists. The winners will be announced live on November 17 at the 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony, which will be held exclusively online. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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2018 award was shared by New York Times and Washington Post for exposing interference and links between Trump and MoscowDonald Trump has again demanded the Pulitzer prize board rescind the prize for national reporting awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018, for exposing... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-04 12:26:08 UTC ]
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Lightning Books has acquired bestselling self-published novelist Nicola May's back catalogue. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-30 19:55:17 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Brazen has won a five-way auction for the debut book from Scottish comedian and writer Fern Brady about her experience of autism. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-30 02:00:06 UTC ]
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Bernardine Evaristo, Captain Sir Thomas Moore and T M Logan have won Nielsen Bestseller Awards for passing milestone sales thresholds during 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-29 23:11:17 UTC ]
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Faber has won a three-way auction for Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy's "vivid, pacy" investigation into the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-29 15:40:19 UTC ]
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Esther Alicia Reid, longtime business manager for Publishers Weekly, died September 26. She was 68. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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