Calling them out. Hilary Duff slammed expedited plans to release ex Aaron Carter’s unfinished memoir following his November 5 death. “It’s really sad that within a week of Aaron’s death there’s a publisher that seems to be recklessly pushing a book out to capitalize on this tragedy without taking [the] appropriate time or care to … Read more
Far-right publisher Regency has reissued the Dinesh D’Souza election conspiracy book “2,000 Mules” after abruptly recalling it in August. NPR compared the two versions and reported on Tuesday on the changes the publisher had made to the book. “Most notably, a passage in the recalled version of the book that accused specific, named nonprofit organizations … Read more
Jimmy Lai is already serving a 20-month sentence for his role in unauthorised assemblies. Jimmy Lai is already serving a 20-month sentence for his role in unauthorised assemblies. Pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai was found guilty on October 25 on a pair of fraud charges related to lease violations — the latest of a … Read more
“I’ve always wanted to change the world,” Carmen Callil told the Hay Festival this summer, explaining why she started the feminist publishing house Virago Press. “I just didn’t think it was good enough.” The forthright Australian was a trailblazer on entering the stuffy world of British publishing in the 1960s. In championing the tradition of … Read more
British news publisher Reach said an advertising blackout following the death of Queen Elizabeth in September more than offset a boost in circulation for commemorative editions of its Daily Mirror and Daily Express titles. The ad hit was seen across both its print titles, which recorded a fall of 32% in September, having already suffered … Read more
No one listened better than Studs. For those of you old enough to remember, that’s Studs Terkel, of course. The most notable thing about him in person, though, was this: the greatest interviewer of his moment, perhaps of any moment, never stopped talking, except, of course, when he was listening to produce one of his … Read more
Shares in Future, the hobby magazine publisher, dropped sharply on Tuesday morning following a media report that chief executive Zillah Byng-Thorne is planning to move on. In her nine years running the FTSE 250 company, Byng-Thorne has transformed it from an ailing group of magazines, whose titles include Marie Claire, TechRadar and Horse & Hound, … Read more
A strike by hundreds of journalists at Reach has been postponed after managers at the newspaper publisher made an eleventh hour offer to resolve the dispute through a third-party arbitrator. Editorial staff at the company, which owns the Daily Express and Daily Mirror as well as some of the UK’s largest regional titles, had planned … Read more
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. The wood-walled conference room has a sterile quality, and the men in muted suits seated around the wide central table are eerily alike, as if duplicated. But … Read more
Textbook publisher Pearson has revealed its plans to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to keep track of digital textbook sales and effectively “diminish the secondary market” for its digital textbooks. According to a Bloomberg report on August 1, Pearson CEO Andy Bird wants to assign NFTs to its digital textbooks in order to keep better track … Read more