The International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded the 2018 Prix Voltaire award, which supports defenders of the freedom to publish, to missing Chinese-born Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, reports the Bookseller. A Hong Kong-based publisher and bookseller, Gui specialised in publishing
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A new report from media ad sales platform Matrix Solutions reveals media ad spend was flat for publishers in 2017. Excluding political ad spend, ad spend in 2017 was nearly flat, with less than a 2% decrease from 2016, according to Matrix Solution's first annual Advertising Spend Report. “The stakes
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A new process to request one-to-one business meetings with the VIPs has been introduced this year, which will see the VIPs select the Australian publishers and agents with whom they'd like to meet. Australian publishers and agents will need to complete an online form by 28 February for the Australia
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Janu receives a $5000 advance and a publishing contract with XO Romance, Xoum's romance and women's fiction imprint. Guest judge Alexandra Nahlous described 'On the Same Page' as 'a wonderful, captivating story about a writer desperate to keep her identity hidden, and the man determined to
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Do they now think the real villains in the movie were the publishers and leakers of classified information? To hear the anchors and pundits today on MSNBC and CNN — hysterically itemizing all the potential damage to the functioning of the FBI and Justice Department the release of the Nunes memo
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comiXology Unlimited members will now receive 15% off all Marvel Comics, and 10% off books by Image Comics, IDW Publishing, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Action Lab Entertainment, Humanoids, Seven Seas, and Zenescope. comiXology does say that the publishers involved may
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Two books scored the maximum five-star rating: a new picture-book collaboration between Jane Godwin, Alison Lester and the children of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, The Silver Sea (Affirm Press, March), and Ellie Marney's YA novel, White Night (A&U). Bookseller Anica
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