With New Plan, APP Works to Win Back Customers

After announcing in early February that it had discontinued sourcing paper from threatened Indonesian rainforests, a representative of Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) was at the International Toy Fair Show in New York last week to explain the policy to toy companies and children’s book publishers. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Mobile Webcomics Are Working to Save Reading

The webcomics category is exploding in growth—and it’s only going to get bigger. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Ingram Backs Book.io, A NFT Book Marketplace

Book.io, which describes itself as “an NFT marketplace for buying, reading, and selling e-books and audiobooks,” is looking to help authors build new revenue streams, and has buy-in from Ingram. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Fans Come Roaring Back to New York Comic Con 2022

New York Comic Con returned to the Javits Center at full strength for 2022. Held October 6-9, the event drew 200,000 attendees, according to a spokesperson for ReedPop, the show organizer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Good Asian,’ ‘Squire,’ Win Harveys; Gaiman Inducted in Harvey Hall of Fame

'The Good Asian' by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandrew Tefenkgi and 'Squire' by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh won Harvey Awards; and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame, during an awards ceremony held at Friday night during New York Comic Con. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Book Group Works to Diversify Slate of Authors

Hachette Book Group took another step toward bringing more BIPOC writers to the table in an equitable way by cohosting a Hurston/Wright Writers Week Workshop retreat for the first time this summer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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French Author Annie Ernaux Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

Annie Ernaux, 82, was cited for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2022-10-06 11:03:31 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards Are Back in Town

The National Book Foundation is preparing for its first live marquee event since the pandemic hit—even as its team looks to the horizon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sephora, SheaMoisture, Stitch Fix, Ritz-Carlton back Hearst Magazines’ ‘Celebrate Black’ event

The second annual edition of the conference, slated for Oct. 18-20, will add in-person elements to its largely streaming format. Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2022-09-27 15:00:48 UTC ]
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At Energized NEIBA Trade Show, Attendees Happy to Be Back

A smaller New England Independent Booksellers Association show was no less lively for it, with booksellers celebrating streaks of good sales and welcoming a new board to the association. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author Known for ‘Wolf Hall,’ Dies at 70

The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2022-09-24 00:46:55 UTC ]
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Amazon's updated e-book return policy looks like a big win for authors

Anyone who has been taking advantage of Amazon's liberal return policy regarding e-books could soon be in for a shock. That's because following discussions with the Authors Guild, Amazon has agreed to block automatic returns on digital books that are more than 10 percent read. Currently, the... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2022-09-23 19:10:20 UTC ]
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Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel dead at 70

Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author known for her award-winning Wolf Hall historical trilogy, died on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Twitter on Friday. Continue reading at CBC

[ CBC | 2022-09-23 11:29:52 UTC ]
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Mario Vargas Llosa on Looking Back, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

Translated by Charlotte Whittle The novel, Looking Back by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vázquez, which has won a major literary prize in Mexico, will have many readers. It is one of the great novels to have been written in Spanish and its author tells us that the events it portrays also... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-23 08:52:19 UTC ]
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Book World began on Watergate’s heels: A look back at the early days

Michael Dirda recalls a time of typewriters and landlines, of putting together a newspaper section that captured the joy of literature and love of reading. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2022-09-22 15:00:54 UTC ]
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The Thursday Murder Club is back in action and as entertaining as ever

Richard Osman's "The Bullet that Missed" reconvenes his septuagenarian crime fighters. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2022-09-16 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Anne Heche was working on another memoir before she died. It hits shelves next year

Anne Heche died in August of injuries she sustained from a fiery car crash. She published her first memoir, "Call Me Crazy," in 2001. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-15 21:01:10 UTC ]
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Review: ‘Life’s Work,’ by David Milch

“Life’s Work” is a memoir of outrageous youth, creative obsessions and ruinous habits. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2022-09-12 15:07:05 UTC ]
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Assassin's Creed Mirage will bring the series back to its roots in 2023

Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the next entry in Ubisoft’s long-running action-adventure series, will arrive in 2023. The publisher announced the release date today during its Ubisoft Forward event. Set two decades before the events of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, the game will reunite fans with a Basim... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2022-09-10 20:07:51 UTC ]
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Hitting the Books: Newfangled oceanographers helped win WWII using marine science

Lethal Tides tells the story of pioneering oceanic researcher Mary Sears and her leading role in creating one of the most important intelligence gathering operations of World War II. Languishing in academic obscurity and roundly ignored by her male colleagues, Sears is selected for command by... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2022-09-04 15:00:53 UTC ]
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