Loganberry Books in Ohio has reorganised its fiction section so all titles by male writers now have their spines facing the wallA bookshop in Ohio has made a graphic illustration of the position of female writers by leaving only books by women visible to its customers. The change, made to mark women’s history month, has provoked an angry reaction in some quarters, with accusations of sexism and censorship.Eight members of staff at Loganberry Books in Cleveland turned the spines and covers of books by men to face the wall in the shop’s 10,000-title fiction section. Harriett Logan, the bookstore’s founder and owner, told the website Heat Street the intention was to illustrate how women’s voices were drowned out. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn sponsored a bill Thursday that would increase restrictions on consumer data use by both internet service providers and so-called "edge providers" such as Google and Facebook.If passed, the ''Balancing the Rights of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibly Act of 2017'' --... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Calling books 'an important piece of building a better future,' McDonald's Canada partners with children's publisher Kids Can Press in a book promotion. The post Canadian-Specific Content Served in Kids Can Book Promotion with McDonald’s Canada appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta editorial director Bella Lacey has won world rights to a history of wool in Britain by Fife-based writer Esther Rutter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Katie Espiner reacts to the Guardian's article on whether things are getting worse women in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canada’s McGill University is re-launching the US $75,000 Cundill History Prize to highlight history writing as a way to illuminate the truth at a time when informed, factual debate is “increasingly losing out to populism and retrenchment is on the rise”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (Vintage) will be shown in the UK on Channel 4 this month after the channel acquired rights to the drama series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A trio of promotions at Hearst moves Michael Sebastian up to site director of Esquire.com, Kate Storey to news director, Ben Boskovich to managing editor of Esquire.com and Megan Friedman to deputy news editor of the newsroom. Sebastian joined Hearst in 2015 from Ad Age as senior news editor at... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Celebrating this year's class of inspiring women who make magazine media a dynamic industry. The post Meet the 2017 Folio: Top Women in Media appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As a slew of children’s books promoting empathy hit bookshelves, some kids’ authors say they feel a growing responsibility to counteract the UK’s “intolerant” political climate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Before her first novel sold in 1975, before she won her MacArthur grant, sci-fi writer Octavia Butler fought years of rejection by writing inspirational notes to herself. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Voices from within an industry overwhelmingly staffed by women speak out about senior management that appears increasingly dominated by menHave you experienced a gender gap in publishing? Tell us your storiesWhen Edie and Eddie started work as junior editors in the same corporate book publisher,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster saw worldwide revenue growth of 11% in the first quarter of 2017, up to $161m (from $145m for the same prior-year period). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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She's the daughter of a billionaire family who married into another billionaire family and she's made millions selling merchandise branded with her name. So what could Ivanka Trump teach America's millions of way-less-privileged working women? Trump's latest book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century has acquired Women in Space, a book by spaceflight expert Libby Jackson chronicling the lives of 50 inspirational women, including astronauts, scientists, engineers and other pioneers of human space exploration. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One theme of this year's NewFronts: publishers pitching themselves as the "brand-safe" alternatives to YouTube and Facebook. The post NewFronts publishers see an opening with recent YouTube, Facebook ad crises appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are pretty much only two movie seasons each year, Summer Escape and Oscar Bait. Although the first of the two categories is sometimes indistinguishable from March and April fare (hello, F8 of the Furious) there’s something indelibly summer-y about the cinema of May. This year is no... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week the Telegraph newspaper laid a cloak of misery over the excellent UK book publishing results for 2016, concentrating of course on the negative element...(lordy, they talk of "the demise of fiction"). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mainstream publishing, despite its heavily female workforce, has serious gender pay gap issues—but at independent houses, it's a woman's woman's woman's world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookshops have been praised by authors as “oases of intellectual and physical comfort” as the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award nominees have been released. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adult trade sales rose 6.8% in November 2016, while sales in the children’s/young adult segment jumped 16.2%, according to figures released by the AAP as part of its StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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