The UN drops comic book heroine Wonder Woman as an ambassador, two months after a contentious appointment. Continue reading at 'BBC News'
[ BBC News | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The revamped four-day Paris Book Fair, now called Livre Paris, closed last night with a drop in visitor numbers of about 15% from last year’s 180,000, which in turn were 10% fewer than the year before. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After three years behind a paywall, The Sun has had to flip its content strategy to win back the traffic and SEO history it's lost in the interim, to compete in the free-access world. That's meant bringing in more people experienced with digital publishing and creating a centralized team... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishers Weekly Stock Index fell 3.6% overall, with declining share prices for Amazon and News Corp. offsetting gains elsewhere. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society have launched an award in memory of Ruth Rendell for champions of literacy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meze Publishing has acquired the debut cookbook from 2015 MasterChef champion Simon Wood entitled At Home with Simon Wood: Fine Dining Made Simple. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US ebook subscription service Scribd is dropping its unlimited ebook subscription offer, and moving to a hybrid model as of next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK saw overall sales fall by 6.7% in the fourth quarter of the year due to lower ebook sales, with its parent company Lagardere Publishing saying that "market trends have reversed in the US and the UK". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers have had a complicated relationship with LinkedIn, and now, The Wall Street Journal has dropped its sharing button from its article pages. The change came as part of a recent article redesign. LinkedIn was never a huge traffic driver for most publishers in the first place, but Journal... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The combination of a weak market and investors’ disappointment regarding a fourth-quarter report from Amazon drove down many publishing industry stocks in January. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK and US publishing workforce is dominated by Caucasians (79%) and women (78%), according to a diversity study from children's book publisher Lee and Low. The post The Lee and Low Survey: Diversity Is Not Created Equal appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael O’Mara imprint Buster Books has promised to stop selling books as being “for boys” or “for girls” following an online campaign against gender labelling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buster Books, publisher of colouring books for ‘Brilliant Boys’ and ‘Gorgeous Girls’ to switch to ‘gender neutral’ titles in futureGirls will no longer be defined as “glamorous” and “gorgeous” while boys get to be “amazing” and “brilliant” at Buster Books, after the children’s publisher... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The newest trailer for Warner Bros Suicide Squad is just as off-the-wall as a comic book film can be. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press has acquired the autobiography from "the father of modern British cycling" Chris Boardman, to be published on 2nd June in time for Father’s Day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The suit had accused the Salinger Literary Trust of “tortiously interfering” with the Devault-Graves Agency's attempts to license foreign editions of its book, 'J.D. Salinger: Three Early Stories.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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December 27 will mark the final appearance of the print section, which was launched with great fanfare as a 24-page weekly supplement in 2012. In addition to books reviews, it featured author interviews, essays, literary news and a weekly work o ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are some men who, upon learning that I have been involved in two feminist books, like to say to me that women are: “More equal now than before, so why do we still need feminism?” Typically, their tone has a kind of faux-earnest, head-cocked-to-one-side, u ok hun? edge to it. They aren’t... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 1TB Surface Book Microsoft teased at the laptop’s reveal is finally available for preorder, and boy, it’s expensive. For $3,200, the highest-end Surface Book packs an Intel Core i7 processor—Microsoft previously said the specific model would be the i7-6600U, a 2.6GHz dual-core processor with... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playboy will stop running photographs of naked women in its print edition after more than six decades, the magazine said Tuesday.Although it will continue to publish "sexy, seductive pictorials," as Playboy put it in a statement, the magazine will end more than six decades of full nudity when a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women are as much as 10 decades away from reaching gender equality in the United States, according to a new study published Wednesday by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co. The report from Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit and the management consulting firm states... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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