Blog in Publishing Industry
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Blog / Staff Picks
Pushkin Press and Yasushi Inoue's Life of a Counterfeiter
Book Review by Porchlight
A peek at one of the UK's most outstanding small presses, and a review of a newly-reprinted classic of Japanese literature.
Categories: staff-picks, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2014 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year and Jack Covert Awards
By Porchlight
We went to NYC last week to announce the 2014 Business Book of the Year and inaugural Jack Covert Award.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
And the Winners Are...
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards category winners (and shortlist for the best book of the year) 2014.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 5-8-40 Business Gift Book Club
By Porchlight
Impress your boss or empower your employees with books to help them grow... or just treat that special business someone in your life.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist
By Porchlight
The culling process we undertake during the awards process is always rigorous, but we've narrowed it down to 40 books—5 each in 8 categories.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
2014 FT/McKinsey Book of the Year Announced
By Porchlight
The business and economic world's most visible book award was announced today.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
strategy+business's Best Books of 2014
By Porchlight
The s+b yearly list is always decidedly and refreshingly different than most others.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
The FT Press/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Shortlist
By Porchlight
A shortlist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award was announced yesterday. The books chosen focus very much on the big-picture issues of the day, "the most important trends shaping our world" as the press release puts it, so the switch from Goldman Sachs to McKinsey as a partner to FT has not reduced the scope of the books as I thought it may. (I speculated back in May when the announcement was made that McKinsey would now be backing the award that it may change focus to the more nuts-and-bolts business management issues that McKinsey ostensibly focuses on in its own work.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
The FT Press/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlist
By Porchlight
I speculated back in May when submissions opened for The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company 2014 Business Book of the Year Award that the books they looked at would be more focused on business nuts-and-bolts issues now that a consultancy firm (McKinsey) had taken over for an investment bank (Goldman Sachs) as the Financial Times' partner on the awards. I also thought they would not be announcing a longlist as they had in the past because it was not on their awards schedule. It seems I was wrong on both counts, because The Financial Times and McKinsey announced a longlist this morning, and the books on it are mostly big-picture books, not nut-and-bolts business and management books.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Authors On the Road, Changing the World
By Porchlight
Here at 8cr, we are so fortunate to work, and form long-lasting relationships with, really great authors who are sharing important ideas with people around the world. We see them out on the road speaking to hundreds of groups a year, trying to make the world of business a better place. Spending time away from their friends and families, they work hard to make sure that the ideas that they’ve captured on paper are helping people become better leaders, communicators, listeners.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
