#harper collins

[w-a-r-r-i-o-r-s]

The New Prophecy Quest Game - Borderless cat icons

[ID: Fifteen pixellated photos of cats with grass behind them. 1. A light brown tabby with squinting yellow eyes. 2. A black-and-white tuxedo with a black chin and wide yellow eyes. 3. An orange-and-white tabby with green eyes. 4. A black-and-white tuxedo with yellow eyes looking to the side. 5. A dark brown tabby with a white chin and yellow eyes. 6. A light brown tabby with long fur and yellow eyes. 7. A black-and-white tuxedo with a distinctive white nose and pale eyes. 8. A white cat with black on the top of its head and dark orange eyes. 9. An orange-and-white tabby with green glaring eyes. 10. A mottled brown cat with yellow eyes. 11. A black-and-white tuxedo with green eyes. 12. A black cat with a white chest and yellow eyes. 13. A reddish brown tabby with long fur and yellow eyes. 14. A Siamese with blue eyes. 15. A black-and-white tuxedo with blue eyes. End ID]

[redhoodforreal]

Now now, for both selina e kate "baby girl" is bruce and you know that.

The real question is: who will fill the two missing spot? I wait your answer

[reasonsforhope]

"At HarperCollins, a lot of attention and thought is given to deciding exactly what combinations of margin measurements, font, and layout feel most appropriate for the genre, and writing style.

But in a case of do-your-part environmentalism, designers at the publishing house have now standardized a series of subtle and imperceptible alterations to normal font style, layouts, and ink that have so far removed the need for 245 million book pages, totaling 5,618 trees.

Telling the story in Fast Company, representatives from HarperCollins, one of the four largest publishing houses in the world, explained that the idea first arose in Zondervan Bibles, HarperCollins’ Christian publishing division. Being that the Bible is 2,500 pages or sometimes more, saving ink and pages was not just an environmental consideration, but one of production costs.

A new typeface called NIV Comfort Print allowed Zondervan to shave 350 pages off of every Bible, which by 2017 had amounted to 100 million pages, and which, as Fast Company points out, would be four times higher than the Empire State Building if stacked.

The production and design teams then wondered how much they could save if they applied the same concepts to other genres like romance and fiction. Aside from the invention of the eBook, publishing hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years, and the challenge was a totally novel one for the teams—to alter all their preconceived ideas and try and find a font and typeface that resulted in fewer pages without being harder to read.

They eventually standardized 14 different combinations their tests determined were the most environmentally friendly, and which delivered an unchanged reading experience.

But the challenge didn’t stop there. Printed books, one might not know, are printed in large sheets which are then folded into sections of sixteen pages, meaning that Leah Carlson-Stanisic, associate director of design at HarperCollins, has to calculate the savings of space, words, and ultimately pages with the help of her team to fall in multiples of sixteen.

Nevertheless, they have been successful with it so far, and in the recent print run of one popular book, 1 million pages (or a number near 1 million that coincides with the 16 times tables) were saved.

“We want to make sure our big titles, by prominent authors, are using these eco-fonts,” Carlson-Stanisic said. “It adds up a little bit at a time, saving more and more trees.”"

-via Good News Network, April 4, 2024

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Note: Great! Waiting to see this on the rest of their books and at the other big publishers!

Actually, though, it's worth noting that this may not come quickly to the other large publishers, because Harper Collins almost certainly owns that font - meaning that other publishers would have to pay HarperCollins in order to use it, on an ongoing basis.

More on publishing shit and more realistic solutions here below the cut!

What I'm hoping for and think is more likely is that this will inspire the development of open source eco-friendly fonts, which would be free for anyone to use. That would make it far more likely other publishers would adopt eco-friendly fonts.

I'm also hoping it would inspire other publishers to create similar eco-friendly fonts of their own.

Ideally, there would be a whole new landscape of (hopefully mostly open source) eco-friendly fonts. And/or to see calculations of the eco-friendliness of popular existing fonts, compared to each other.

If we could have a publicly accessible list of calculations for different fonts, including fonts designed to maximize eco-friendliness, I really do think that it would affect which fonts publishers choose to use. Here's why:

Most people in publishing are on the left (notoriously, actually) and really do care about the environment

People in publishing are plenty aware of these issues re: paper and trees, I promise

Shorter books means smaller production costs - and possibly smaller shipping costs as well, over time! So it would save them money too.

Eco-friendly fonts could also be combined with other measures for greater effect, such as bamboo paper (already in use for a lot of projects where page color/quality is more flexible) and thinner paper (aka paper with a lower weight) that uses less trees.

Don't expect books to all move to just one or two different fonts, though. Publishers and typesetters and font designers will innovate to create more options instead, though it will take longer. This is because different books really do use different fonts for various different reasons - one new font to rule them all isn't really a solution here.

"Every book is in the same font" may sound like a "whatever" deal to a lot of people, but as someone who works in publishing - trust me, it would actually make your reading experience worse, even if you could never quite put your finger on why.

[amande-dooce]

HERE IT IS - My own (fictive) version of the lastest warrior cats cover - STAR. I hope you'll love it ! I OBVIOUSLY want to point out that I do not own nor claim to own any of the warrior cats universe in any way. This is just a FANART cover and falls under fair use, as it allows for the limited use of copyrighted material for the purpose of criticism, commentary, or parody. This is just my interpretation of a universe that I old dear to my heart (and wish I could make official covers for, please notice me Harper Collins <3) consider following my instagram maybe ? I'm struggling other there to get people to see my things : <3 https://www.instagram.com/amande.dooce/

[paulinaganucheau]

⭐BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT⭐

GIRLMODE, an original graphic novel from HarperCollins by Magdalene Visaggio and me!!

Phoebe's 16, and she just moved from NY to CA and transitioned at the same time. Now she's gotta learn what's expected of her. It's a lot. Pre-order here: Click me!

[stickstone]

do not buy onestar’s confession. i know this counts as a spoiler, but i’ll be honest i don’t care this kind of trumps that.

the book canonizes whitetail being onestar’s mate. whitetail is specifically mentioned to be his former apprentice in the same chapter this happens.

the book specifically addresses this and defends it, saying that now that whitetail’s an adult it’s ok.

it skips over her apprenticeship, we never see whitetail as a kit or apprentice. they did not need to include any reference to her being onestar’s former apprentice. they could’ve made them the same age. they didn’t need to make her his mate at all.

but they did. they very explicitly did. they chose to do this despite everything. they should’ve known better.

this is a children’s book. they have a responsibility not to publish this kind of shit.

they’ve been getting worse and worse with this over the years. they keep on making the family tree into hard canon despite the fans saying, for years, that the family tree was gross. they keep on doing this and this is the final straw. it’s gone from being ignorable to being explicitly defended in text.

you do not write this without knowing what you’re doing. this is a conscious choice on their part.

we cannot let this shit keep happening. at a certain point it becomes our responsibility to do something. please do not buy onestar’s confession and please email harper collins or whoever you have to expressing your disappointment and disgust. something needs to change.

[cloverrallover]

top four grey kitties with blue eyes (number 3 will shock you)

[terrypratchettestate]

US residents! We're pleased to say that the Humble Bundle for Discworld has been extended for another week. Not only your chance to dive into the magical worlds of Sir Terry Pratchett and get up to 39 ebooks, but raise money for Room to Read, whose goal is to create a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality, in the process!

[ebookporn]

What the hard-won HarperCollins union contract means for the future of books

Almost 250 employees spent 66 days on strike for higher wages and increased diversity.

by Constance Grady 

On Thursday night, HarperCollins announced that it had reached a tentative agreement with its union for a new contract. The news was a long time coming: It arrived only after the union’s nearly 250 members were on strike for 66 days.

Among the so-called Big Five houses that dominate trade publishing in the US, HarperCollins is an oddity: the only publishing house to be unionized. The union, which comprises roughly 250 assistant and associate-level employees across the company, dates back to the 1940s, when it was established at what was then Harper & Row. In the 80 years since, it has lasted through multiple mergers and acquisitions and consolidations to live on in the enormous modern corporation that is HarperCollins, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corps and now America’s second-largest trade publisher. In the 1980s, the union joined forces with the United Auto Workers Union for more resources, and now, says union chairperson Laura Harshberger, it survives “through sheer force of will.”

For the past few decades, the union and the management have managed to negotiate with minimal strife. The last HarperCollins strike was in 1976, and it lasted for two and a half weeks. This year was different. This negotiation comes in the midst of a larger industry battle over what publishing should look like.

Publishing as an industry is 76 percent white, and its notoriously low starting salaries are part of what keeps it that way. In turn, its monolithic whiteness affects the kinds of stories publishing houses choose to invest in, a correlation that became an embarrassment during the American Dirt controversy of 2020. Publishing’s younger and more leftist workers feel that it’s time for a structural upheaval — and the HarperCollins union wanted to make it happen.

At the same time, publishing is in the midst of one of its perpetual financial crunches. The great surge in demand for books that began in the dead of lockdown has begun to ebb, and revenue has gone down with it. The supply chain is in chaos, making it ever more expensive to publish books. In the last half of 2022, HarperCollins’s profits were down $102 million. This was no time, management felt, to make big, expensive changes.

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[benoits-neckerchieves]

In light of this news i bring you pictures of daniel being cute in RNLI lifeboats

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[brokehorrorfan]

Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo will be published on August 20, 2024 via HarperTeen. It's author Adam Cesare's third installment in the slasher series, following 2020's Clown in a Cornfield and 2022's Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives.

The 320-page young adult horror novel will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. Matt Ryan Tobin returned to design the cover. The synopsis is below.

Quinn has just survived yet another bloody run-in with the murderous clown Frendo, but somehow still she knows this won’t be the last. Tired of being hunted and seeing innocent people hurt, Quinn believes the only way to beat the horror is to take justice into her own hands - and stop the Frendo followers herself. Little does she know that this path will take her across cornfields and state lines, to where she will have to face the most dangerous and bloody menace yet: true believers.

Pre-order Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo.

[redhoodforreal]

Some cit from last night patrol:

"Seriusly, all of you have either PTSD, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality, all of the above and/or wrost, and I still the crazy one? For god's sake! Go find a good terapis instead of putting other people in arkham!"

Harley

"I mean, why sex should mean love? Can't be just a way to show friendiship? A game, a way to pass the time with a good friends? Why can't i fuck my bestfriends in a friendly way?"

"If babs hear you, you would be dead meat"

Nightwing and spoiler

"I like people, i find them amusing and intresting to observe, i just prefer when they don't breath near me"

Robin

"There is a glowing flower in your head or i just really, really need some sleep?"

Red robin

"If you give up, you're from metropolis"

Harper

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Gavin and Yvonne Frost - Astral Travel - Harper Collins - 1982

[artists-deserve-better]

#boycottHarperCollins they are trying to use AI voices instead of actual human beings voice actors and pretend it's for us, so we have more product to have but it's not. It's nothing but greed on their end, I want a world full of artists and real human voices not this.

I know it can seem hopeless but remember "in a capitalistic society, it is the consumer who decides what gets made and who gets to make it merely by giving or withholding their support" AI and greedy dystopian companies can't make money if we don't give them money, hit them where it hurts and boycott and tell them why your boycotting

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