- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NYT > BooksPenelope Lively reviews Aislinn Hunter’s novel, about an archivist who explores a disappearance in Victorian Yorkshire.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksStephan Pastis decided to let the public choose the title and cover of his fourth Timmy Failure book. Now we can exclusively reveal which one was victorious Earlier this year we got involved in a very important election. Stephan Pastis a...
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Partnering with Openbook, a China-based book sales tracking service, Nielsen aims to help publishers and distributors get a better handle on global markets. In a deal announced yesterday, Nielsen will support Openbook’s research into the... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis splendidly batty 1949 novel, translated into English for the first time, sees a smalltown graveyard become a hotbed of gossip The clinical term used to be hysterical dependency. Small Irish towns circle around the same old obsession...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsJake Kerridge sees shades of Agatha Christie in Christopher Bollen's Orient, a witty Long Island mystery
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There are hundreds of digital bookstores all over the world and the purpose of our research is to determine the most popular. Over the course of the last two weeks 364 people cast their vote and today we would like to share our results. ... - Monday, April 13, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksTributes are paid to Günter Grass on Monday in his city of birth, Gdansk, and German hometown of Lübeck following the death of the Nobel prize winning author who died today in hospital on Monday. Former Polish president Lech Wałęsa says ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSummer movie season seems to stretch wider and wider as blockbusters' budgets swell. Just look at this month's "Furious 7," the latest behemoth in a franchise whose first three installments opened in June. That movie is cruising around w...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsMartin Chilton guides you through the history of the world in puns, including Lincoln's assassination
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I loved every single bit of it, the magic, the creatures, the fantasy, the whole world that Tolkien created in these pages' Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksTiny Cooper, from Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green, finally tells his own story – from birth to his infamous 18 ex-boyfriends – the only way he knows how: as a stupendous musical! Read the first chapter of the ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSecrecy over text of Go Set a Watchman means publishers can only read in person at London agent’s offices – but 25 territories are already signed up It was written almost 60 years ago, but Harper Lee’s forthcoming new novel Go Set a Watc...
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[Press Release] CHICAGO, April 14, 2015 — R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company(Nasdaq:RRD), announced today that LibreDigital, a service of the RR Donnelley Digital Solutions group, has been awarded a multi-year agreement to provide ... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIf you have any advice for the young girls of the world, it's time to offer it. Author Courtney Summers launched the hashtag #ToTheGirls on April 14, the same day that her YA novel All the Rage was released. Her hope is that women will s...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksNobel winner told El País that he feared humanity was ‘sleepwalking’ towards a major conflict with flashpoints in Ukraine and the Middle East Germany’s Nobel-winning author Günter Grass said he feared humanity was “sleepwalking” int...
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- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSite member TheFanaticalReader found that when they told a few people at school that they were reading Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park , the students gawped like they were a rare and exotic fish. So here’s TheFanaticalReader’s troubleshooti...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NYT > BooksA language guide and memoir about life at The New Yorker.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSamantha Shannon, Darren Shan, Kevin Brooks, Laura Dockrill and James Dawson join Malorie Blackman, Derek Landy and Cassandra Clare at YALC this year! Find the lineup so far here! Well, this year’s Young Adult Literary Convention (YALC) ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Candace's Book BlogHave you noticed that despite ALL of your Facebook “Likes” you are only “reaching” a very small portion of those followers? Does that bother you? It bothers us, and we want to boost each other up. Link up with Ev...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksB.C. writer D.W. Wilson has won the English-language CBC Short Story Prize for his story Mountain Under the Sea.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAs independent booksellers continue to dwindle, the One Day author dedicates London Book Fair speech to his love of ‘the book as object’ and his sadness and guilt at seeing bookshops close One Day author David Nicholls has spoken of how ...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from NYT > BooksThis online project is part of a growing movement in the humanities to harness digital technology for cultural analysis — like treating books as data to create “literary geography.”
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostAnn Packer’s new novel, “The Children’s Crusade,” recounts the story of the Blairs, a privileged, upper-middle-class family, in smooth, unsurprising, white-bread prose. But the Blairs’ collective psychological turmoil in Silicon Valley, ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksMore than 1,100 authors sign a petition to the European parliament, calling on EU countries to create common, humane laws of asylum Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFleshing out the shadowy metaphysical hints of Beckett’s novels, this intellectual romp is the best debut I have read in years Every so often a novel comes along that tickles my fancy so much that it actually makes me suspicious: th...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksReaders around the world have been recording one-minute readings of Anne Frank’s diary as part of the #NotSilent campaign – here are some of them #NotSilent: social media campaign remembers Anne Frank To mark the 70th anniversary of Anne...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Each character was vivid and unique; intriguing and intricate' Continue reading...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsSir Michael Holroyd, the biographer, insists that it is not the end of his literary marriage
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comT wo words so rarely juxtaposed: lurid and cute. Yet as Adam Thirlwell’s third novel, Lurid & Cute , convincingly suggests, there is nothing more lurid than cuteness that's curdled. Narrated closely by an unnamed, 30-ish man, referred to...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from NYT > BooksMichelle Robinson Obama, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, has deep roots in the city of her birth.
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The US ebook market has shown every sign of having gotten boring but other markets are still much more active. CB Logistics, the leading ebook distributor in the Netherlands, just released a new infographic which reveals that Dutch ebook... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFrom a misfit bee to a Renaissance artist, and from Athens to Peshawar, the six novels shortlisted for this year’s women’s prize for fiction span continents and genres News: Baileys prize shortlists debut alongside star names Continue re...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIt costs more to be a woman , but you likely get paid less. The gender pay gap isn't dying out anytime soon (not for about 85 years to be exact ). On average, working women earn about 78 percent as men , according to the White House. Apr...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from NYT > BooksThough peppered with very funny lines and insights, this book has an undercurrent of serious emotion.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBOOKFILTER TOP PICKS -- THE WEEK OF APRIL 13 A great gift for grads, a brilliant collection of short stories by Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser, a taut Western for those already missing the TV show Justified and more are among th...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe fact that Nineteen Eighty-Four’s all-seeing despot is not real means that he has has no weaknesses – and cannot be beaten • More baddies in books The figure of Big Brother towers over the citizens of Airstrip One, his image looming f...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksJim Crace joins international finalists including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Man Booker winner Richard Flanagan British author Jim Crace has made the shortlist for one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes for his Man Booker-sho...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comK.A. Holt's poems have energy; to read one of her books is to go on an adventure. Which is why it's great that she's currently so focused on penning poetry for kids and young adults -- she takes the medium back to its playful roots. "I d...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Residents of Australia and the United Kingdom will now be able to enjoy healthy competition in the digital library space. The 3M Cloud Library will now heavily compete against Overdrive and Softlink, giving libraries a viable alternative... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Every chapter there's a new twist and there are so many cliffhangers that left me in suspense that I just couldn't stop reading' Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comFor the second year in a row I will be volunteering at the LA Times Festival the Books where over 150,000 readers gather to celebrate books. Since you visit these pages, I'd be willing to bet the house that you consciously and purposeful...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostAnne Tyler and Sarah Waters are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, announced Monday in London. It’s an incredibly strong list that includes some of the most well-known and critically acclaime...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsU.S. analytics firm comScore has just released its report on smartphone subscriber market share in the U.S. covering February 2015. And the figures show that “Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 41.7 percent OEM ma...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsLetter emerges for sale showing that the Poirot author was a formidable businesswoman
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There's nothing like marketing to a captive audience. TV commercials make use of that idea, and pretty soon a new startup called Rook will launch a service which offers free ebooks to users so long as they remain at their current locatio... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Candace's Book BlogI’ve been on a mystery kick lately but haven’t squeezed in any middle grade mysteries in awhile. Not only does Murder is Bad Manners have a great cover and title but the story inside is just as fabulous! Murder is Bad Manners...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comInstead of a man's word, it's a burger's world -- and ladies are pizza. That's how UCB comedian and Fusion writer Akilah Hughes begins her explainer of intersectionality in her new video " On Intersectionality in Feminism and Pizza ." Hu...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Kobo has three e-readers in their current portfolio that they market all over the world. The Kobo Aura and Kobo Glo HD are two of the most notable and customers may be wondering, what is best for me? Today, we compare them against each o... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'The perfect mix of comedy with an emotional and relatable subject we may all have experienced: bullying' Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksColin B. Bailey Monet’s influence is crucial to what Willibald Sauerländer’s considers to be Manet’s “conversion” to Impressionism. Yet their acquaintance was not always amiable. Two paintings made by Manet in the summer of 1...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Entrepreneur: Latest Books ArticlesThe agreement is expected to go into effect this week.
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For The Forgotten, author Bishop O’Connell thinks very seriously about a famous Arthur C. Clarke quote and how it can apply to the world of fantasy. Would Clarke be proud? Perhaps! BISHOP O’CONNELL: Let me preface by saying t... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksDavid Cole To kill or capture? That is the chilling question that US officials—and even members of Congress—reportedly ask behind closed doors these days. Revelations in a Brooklyn terrorism case show that parts of our govern...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsAmerican Conservative senior editor Dreher ( The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life , 2013) shares his search for his family’s acceptance, looking for answers from his church, ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCatWriters can now add an audiobook or a soundtrack to their eBooks published on the online writing community Wattpad. Wattpad has partnered with SoundCloud to integrate the audio platform into its app. The new feature allows users to add a...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
Messaging app retention rates, magazine industry growth, social media preferences, how millennials get news, and more are covered in this month’s installment of TFP’s Media Metrics roundup. To help you keep up with trends and prepare for... - On May 22 of last year, after a Boeing 737 landed at Rio de Janeiro’s Santos Dumont airport—famous for a short runway that forces pilots to slam on their brakes—a flight attendant announced: “Dear passengers, a Kindle device glided to th...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsHarry Potter’s creator faces a crowd of uber-Muggles—the graduating class of Harvard University—whom she enjoins to stretch their minds and be awesome. Today, Rowling ( The Casual Vacancy , 2012, etc.) is massively wealthy, but that wasn...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Book Portal SiteWhen Robin finds a baby in her sandbox, she knows she can't take care of it. So off she goes, to find a friend or neighbour who would want to raise a baby. A delightful story inspired by Robert Munsch's...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedA middle-aged woman takes a year off from her marriage to sleep with whoever she wants and to write about it. It is a daring premise for a book that has already garnered so much attention that the publishers moved the release date forwar...
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Many InDesign users have used Find/Change functions to perform simple text replacements such as changing double spaces after a period to a single space, deleting multiple returns, or replacing specific words. But the Find/Change dialog (... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Flavorwire » Books
There’s already a movie adaptation of In Cold Blood ; there’s also a TV movie adaptation of In Cold Blood ; there are … Read More - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ReadersRead.com Book BlogSherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are two of the most banned books of 2014. Read more on readersread.com
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCatThe Children’s Book Council (CBC) has partnered with the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) to support the WNDB Internship Program, which launches this summer. The CBS will help provide educational resources to help interns from dive...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Writing.ie
The European Union Prize for Literature 2015 was announced on the opening day of the London Book Fair. The award recognises the best up-and-coming authors in Europe and is open to countries participating in Creative Europe, the EU fundin... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Book Portal Site
In recent years, the 42-year-old has opened up about her struggles with deep depression, which threatened to derail her life and career. - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books Feedreviewed by Jonathan Chatwin. The History page of the current Jardines website devotes just a single line to the trading practices of company founders William Jardine and James Matheson, noting merely that they were responsible for sendi...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCat“ Forgiveness ” by Chiquis Rivera has debuted on the iBooks bestsellers list this week at No. 5. Apple has released its top selling books list for paid books from iBooks in the U.S. for week ending April 13, 2015. “The...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsSolidly literate but gushy memoir from the actress known for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager and Orange Is the New Black . Mulgrew recounts her rise from a bucolic Iowa upbringing to much-in-demand thespian on the New York stage to iconi...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Writing.ieYou’ve slaved over your work for months, overdosing on caffeine and questioning plot choices in the dead of the night. You’ve deleted drafts, submitted manuscripts, triumphed over letters of rejection and now, finally, your work is ready...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsWhen is a skunk not a skunk? When it’s a…skunk. A bespectacled man peers out his front door at a red-nosed skunk perched on his stoop, gazing back. The skunk does nothing overtly threatening, just looks at the man and then follows him do...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Book Portal SiteEvery time Jule Ann goes outside, a mud puddle leaps from a tree above and get her dirty. But Jule Ann loves to go outside and will not give up. She will get to play - and keep her clothes...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA lady boxer, a poxy lady and a louche pretty boy tangle in 18th-century England. "I'd like to say that my beginnings were humble, but they weren't beginnings, because I never really left them but for a short while." This is Ruth, and th...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Poets and WritersThis week, try creating your own blackout poem. First, select a page of text. This could be from a book, newspaper, computer printout, advertisement—anything that's handy. Then, take a pencil and circle the words in the text that will co...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedLucky to be an Artist is the title of an autobiographical book by Unity Spencer, 84, daughter of the great painter Stanley Spencer. Lucky? Hers is a story tinged with such sadness that it could hardly be described as such. “Children of g...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCatThis week, Kidsbooks is hiring a graphic designer , while Assouline Publishing needs a senior production manager . Bloomsbury Publishing is seeking a marketing designer , and Quarto Publishing Group is on the hunt for a marketing manager...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCatIn anticipation of the season five premiere episode , Game of Thrones fans chatted up a storm on social media. SocialTimes reports that Jon Snow was the character that received the most mentions online over the weekend. Jon Snow has alwa...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCatX-Files actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel will team up to write a book entitled WE. Atria Books will release this “self-help guide for women” on March 08, 2016. Publisher Judith Curr negotiated the terms ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Book Portal SiteWhen David moves next door to Julie, he seems like a nice, normal boy - but his father is another story. His father is a giant! But is he a friendly giant? Or a mean one?...
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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Five words from the blurb: murder, child, parents, mystery, relationships I decided to read Everything I Never Told You because it was Amazon.com’s book of 2014 and praise for it seems to b... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from WLT BlogLiterary Tributes From the Archives Theodore Ziolkowski Photo: H. Grunert / www.nobelprize.org . The Winter 2000 issue of WLT featured “To Be Continued . . .”, the English translation of Grass’s 1999 Nobel Prize lecture, and his waterco...
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The New York Times reports that Nobel Prize wining German author and critic Günter Grass - If you’re a regular attendee of the London Book Fair, you probably remember the Olympia London, the fair’s home through 2005.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesThe Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives are launching a new , international publishing conference called The Markets: Global Publishing Summit The post Introducing The Markets: Global Publishing Summit appeared first on Publi...
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The first story in Cecilia Rodriguez Milanés’ latest collection, Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You , titled “Niñas de Casa” (roughly translated as “house girls”), opens with the murders of three Cuban-American women. First, a certain Celeste i... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Fantasy-FactionUrsula K. Le Guin sits as one of the top 10 most important fantasy writers of all time. The sad fact is though that not enough people have read her work. Likely, it is because she is a woman writing fantasy / science fiction – and ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Poets and WritersStaff Literary geography; HarperCollins and Amazon reach agreement; new Patti Smith memoir; and other news. Page 1 This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from pu...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Dear Author » Book Reviews
For nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread-its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal’s cip... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksColm Tóibín The artist Charles Coypel’s images of Don Quixote are so dramatic in their visual scope and use of space and color and contrast that they must have been a gift to both engravers and tapestry-makers. As much as Cervantes...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsAfter decades spent suppressing sad and angry feelings toward her mother for adultery and the destruction of her childhood happiness, it’s time for anguished Barbara Blumfield to make peace with her parent and herself. The pendulum swing...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Bloggin' 'bout Books(Image from Barnes & Noble ) Winston Fletcher should probably be angrier about the way her Momma abandoned her in pursuit of a glam Hollywood career. Truth is, Winston's used to not having her mom around. She prefers it t...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GalleyCatThe Bay Area Book Festival is hoping to raise $10,000 on Kickstarter to build a giant library made out of books at the inaugural event. The project, from the nonprofit art group FLUX Foundation, is called Lacuna and will be constructed o...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RT Book ReviewsWe all love romance because we love to see characters of all types reach their HEA. In Heidi Cullinan's latest New Adult, series starter Carry the Ocean , she pairs two protagonists who have considerable obstacles to overcome — both have...
- For all of the innovative new digital products aimed at consumers, digital has continued to revolutionize the behind-the-scenes work of publishers. But editorial staff will tell you that they could use a little more help.
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