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Hugo awards organizers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win

Jul 23 2024: The prestigious Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy writing has revealed that almost 400 votes – about 10% of all votes cast in this year’s awards – were fraudulently paid for to help one finalist win.

The Hugo administration subcommittee, ...

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Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas

Jul 23 2024: The law enforcement officer spent months methodically gathering evidence. He leafed through thousands of pages and highlighted key passages amid reams and reams of paper. He wore his body camera to record his interactions with witnesses and suspects. And he photographed...

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Orbit launches horror imprint, Run for It

Jul 22 2024: Hachette Book Group's Orbit division has launched Run for It, a new horror imprint. Run for It is Orbit's fourth imprint, alongside the flagship Orbit SFF imprint; Redhook, launched in 2013, which focuses on commercial fiction with speculative elements; and the digital ...

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Microsoft outages caused by CrowdStrike software glitch paralyze airlines, other businesses. Here's what to know.

Jul 19 2024: Banks, airlines, television networks and health systems around the world that rely on Microsoft 365 apps reported widespread outages Friday. Thousands of flights and train services were cancelled globally, including more than 1,000 in the U.S., and there were ...

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Hachette reorgs Workman, moves Algonquin into Little, Brown

Jul 16 2024: Hachette Book Group on Monday confirmed a realignment that included layoffs at Workman Publishing, as well as several promotions and other changes—including moving Algonquin Books into Little, Brown, reporting to president and publisher Sally Kim, and Algonquin Young ...

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Cashing out and scaling up: publishing M&A in 2024 (so far)

Jul 12 2024: At the end of 2023, industry observers told PW they expected 2024 to be an active year for mergers and acquisitions. So far, those predictions have been accurate, with seven notable deals announced in the first half of the year, and two major deals announced ...

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Random House Is buying Boom! Studios

Jul 10 2024: Penguin Random House continues its renewed emphasis of making strategic acquisitions with a new agreement to acquire comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios. The agreement, between the Random House Publishing Group and Boom! founder and chairman Ross Richie...

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Attack on Ukrainian printing plant disrupts publishing industry

Jul 08 2024: On May 23, Russian missiles targeted the Factor Druk printing plant, one of the largest such plants in Europe and a crucial printer for the Ukrainian publishing industry. The attack killed seven employees at the plant and rendered one shop of the factory inoperable, ...

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