Debut author of Yinka Where is Your Huzband, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, and her editor Katy Loftus at Penguin, dish the dirt on the reality behind the dream of being published. Read the previous part here. THE AUTHOR: LIZZIE DAMILOLA BLACKBURN My phone buzzed. My heart thudded. I had just received the email. The email from my editors with my second round of editorial feedback. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Canadians have had to be content with a form of Kindle Store limbo until now. They could buy Kindle ebooks, but they've had to rely on a US-centric portal that scarcely acknowledges their literary tradition. As of this weekend, they don't have to cross the virtual border: Amazon Canada now has... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The largest children’s library in Mexico—Biblioteca BS-IBBY México—in Mexico City boasts some 25,000 titles, of which more than 3,000 are in digital format. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Design wunderkind Scott Dadich, whose low-budget side project for Wired’s digital edition ended up becoming the template for all of Condé Nast’s tablet strategy, is returning to the magazine as its editor in chief, the company announced today. Dadich served as creative director of Wired from... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2012-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired two novels by Channel 4 News culture editor Matthew Cain, with the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 19, 2012 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the latest addition to Adobe® Creative Cloud™ — Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), Single Edition. DPS, Si ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the country's top publishers has turned to a man from the editorial side to run its business. Michael Pietsch, the editor of Keith Richards' Life, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King and the many novels of James Patterson, has been named CEO of Hachette Book Group. Mr. Pietsch has headed... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ed Wood, editor of We Love This Book, is to join Sphere as senior editor for men's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation is parting company with chief digital officer Jonathan Miller at the end of September, ahead of the separation of its publishing and entertainment business. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A New York-based software company is taking e-reading to a whole new nonlinear level. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two months after obtaining a majority stake in the magazine, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, is bringing back Franklin Foer as part of an ambitious plan to remake the magazine. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It would be a big surprise if one of the major publishers were to follow Stylist magazine and launch a mainstream free women's title, according to Lisa Smosarski, editor of Stylist, who believes such a move would be a "big step". Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By James Sturdivant My favorite part of a very good keynote address from Josh Tyrangiel, editor of Bloomburg Businessweek, at this year’s Publishing Business Conference & Expo (see full coverage here ) came... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal has defended Apple's Ebook Strategy saying it is not only good for Apple, but good for consumers and publishers as well. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The value of the UK's book exports rose a little over 3% to £1,741.5m in 2011,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Billionaire Sam Zell is demanding a share of any money retirees and other creditors may win in lawsuits or legal settlements over the 2007 leveraged buyout he engineered of newspaper publisher Tribune Co. (TRB) The demand, made through the Zell-co ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Associated Press - Three of Christopher Hitchens' most contentious books are coming back into print, and debuting in digital form.Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, announced Thursday that books on three of Hitchens' favorite enemies—Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Mother... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones has brought its 3 for 2 offer back for one week, but only on children’s books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Atlantic Media Company names Kevin Delaney as editor-in-chief of its still untitled digital global business brand. Delaney brings over a decade of experience at The Wall Street Journal to this developing role. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has appointed Claire Hey as senior commissioning editor for fiction,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The debut novel by “Newsnight” economics editor Paul Mason has been acquired by No... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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