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An Exclusive New Column Series: Richard Charkin on the Vocabulary of Publishing
by Richard Charkin
19 Jun 2018 at 10:30pm
If "unputdownable" means "putdownable" and "educational publishing" is "anything that's not trade publishing," what does "quality" mean in an insider's lexicon of the book industry? Ask Richard Charkin.
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Interview: NPD Book?s Kristen McLean on the New BookScan License Reporting Se...
by Porter Anderson
18 Jun 2018 at 10:30pm
New insights into the US market, previously not visible to researchers, are coming to light now as NPD's new BookScan License Reporting Service comes up to speed, tracking more than 4,000 licenses and more than 10,000 ISBNs weekly.
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Rights Roundup: Responsibility in Relationships, and Bugs in Your Backyard
by Porter Anderson
18 Jun 2018 at 10:30pm
Sexual and gender relations, insects in our neighborhood, and historical fiction about genius: this month's rights roundup includes work originally published in English, Swedish, and Norwegian.
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Apollo 11 and Woodstock: Australia?s Murray Books Opens Rights Sales at IPR L...
by Porter Anderson
18 Jun 2018 at 10:20pm
Based in Adelaide, the book packager Peter Murray this week begins selling rights online to roughly a dozen of his titles, with special emphasis on anniversary titles around the moon landing and music of 1969.
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Looking for the Next Hit in Germany: Wattpad Announces a Partnership With Bav...
by Porter Anderson
18 Jun 2018 at 12:00am
German-language users spend an average 10 million minutes on Wattpad daily. That may soon pay off for both the platform in Toronto and for Munich's Bavaria Fiction in a new partnership.
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UK National Poetry Day and BBC Commission 12 New Poems on Change
by Porter Anderson
17 Jun 2018 at 9:30pm
Poetry can 'focus our attention and become a small present (in both senses of the word) in the middle of change,' says one of the 12 poets selected for the UK's BBC Local Radio participation in Forward Arts' National Poetry Day 2018.
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In Norwich, the National Centre for Writing Formally Opens at Dragon Hall Thi...
by Porter Anderson
17 Jun 2018 at 4:01pm
Dedicated to 'exploring the artistic and social power of creative writing,' Norwich's National Centre for Writing, is having its formal launch week in its redeveloped new home that includes the 15th-century Dragon Hall.
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Lists of the Week: Aldus? New Translation Grant Finder and the OED?s Latest E...
by Porter Anderson
14 Jun 2018 at 10:20pm
The Oxford English Dictionary is announcing more than 900 new 'words, senses, and subentries'. And the Aldus network in Europe has added a worldwide translation grant finder for publishers.
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Canada?s $75,000 Cundill Prize 2018 Jurors: Five Historians in Search of Cont...
by Porter Anderson
14 Jun 2018 at 4:01pm
The five-person jury of history experts on why history writing is important and how they will choose this year's winner of the Cundill History Prize.
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The ?100,000 International Dublin Award Highlights Ireland?s Tramp Press
by Porter Anderson
14 Jun 2018 at 11:21am
Tramp Press, a small publisher in Ireland, found a winner with Mike McCormack's 'Solar Bones'. The book, passed over by larger publishers, has won the International Dublin Award.
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