#Biden’s sister signs book deal for undisclosed amount

#Biden’s sister signs book deal for undisclosed amount

“#Biden’s sister signs book deal for undisclosed amount” President Biden’s sister and longtime confidant, Valerie Biden ​Owens, has inked a book deal, according to a new report — but the financial terms of the deal are being kept under wraps. “Growing Up Biden” will be published by Celadon Books on April 12, the Associated Press…

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#Drew Barrymore is launching her own magazine

#Drew Barrymore is launching her own magazine

“#Drew Barrymore is launching her own magazine” Bauer Media — the German publisher that sold its stable of pop culture and teen magazines three years ago — is jumping back into celebrity rags in a new venture with Drew Barrymore. According the company, “Drew” will be “optimism in magazine form.” The new quarterly is “a…

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#NYTimes’ Choire Sicha bolts for New York Magazine

#NYTimes’ Choire Sicha bolts for New York Magazine

“#NYTimes’ Choire Sicha bolts for New York Magazine” Choire Sicha, who stepped down as the head of the New York Times’ influential Styles section in April — ostensibly to take a job as a development editor in the Gray Lady’s nascent newsletter division — has bolted to New York Magazine. Sicha tweeted on Monday that…

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#Dylan Howard’s Empire Media acquires 12 digital and print brands

#Dylan Howard’s Empire Media acquires 12 digital and print brands

“#Dylan Howard’s Empire Media acquires 12 digital and print brands” Fresh off his acquisition of Radar Online, controversial editor-turned-CEO Dylan Howard is gambling that he can introduce a dozen titles to the US market using a formula that embraces high-priced quarterly print editions and consumer-friendly digital titles. Howard on Thursday announced his newly formed Empire…

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#Amazon stops selling books framing LGBTQ identities as illness

#Amazon stops selling books framing LGBTQ identities as illness

“#Amazon stops selling books framing LGBTQ identities as illness” Amazon has decided to stop selling books that cast lesbian, gay and transgender identities as mental illnesses. The e-commerce titan revealed its decision in a letter to three Republican senators who cried foul last month over the removal of a conservative scholar’s book about transgender people….

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#Dr. Seuss media empire stretches far beyond six shelved books

#Dr. Seuss media empire stretches far beyond six shelved books

“#Dr. Seuss media empire stretches far beyond six shelved books” Dr. Seuss’ publisher’s decision to stop selling some of his beloved books appears unlikely to put a dent in his estate’s bottom line. The beloved children’s author born Theodor Seuss Geisel raked in $33 million last year, making him the world’s second-highest-paid dead celebrity behind…

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#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101

#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101

“#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101” SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.  Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home,…

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