G.P. Putnam's Sons acquired two new novels in Paretsky's bestselling V.I Warshawski series. Ivan Held, president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, and G.P. Putnam's Sons executive editor Christine Pepe negotiated the deal with Paretsky's longtime agent, Dominick Abel, for North American, audio and e-book rights.
Company makes an iPad app publishing system that allow users to build fully customizable apps with real-time update options, allegedly to make the development process as easy as starting a WordPress/WISYWIG editor.
The issues of privacy, free speech and a feral press divided the panel at the Index on Censorship debate at the London School of Economics on Tuesday evening. Chaired by Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville (right), the event celebrated the launch of the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Privacy is dead!
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