Dreamscape Institutes Layoffs Following RB Media Acquisition
As part of the acquisition by RBmedia, this week Dreamscape laid off several people, indicated by one anonymous employee to be more than 10 positions. Dreamscape offered the following statement: “As part of integrating Dreamscape with RBmedia, it became clear that RBmedia had capacity and infrastructure that could be leveraged by Dreamscape while still enabling us to deliver the same high-level of service to authors, publishers, distributors and the narrator community. Unfortunately, this resulted in a portion of the team being given notice.”
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This year’s National Book Foundation Literarian Award recipient Paul Coates has been accused of publishing “racist, antisemitic, and homophobic books and authors” in an “enthusiastic and uncritical” manner, in an article by Mark Oppenheimer in Arc Magazine. That article expands considerably on questions first raised in a piece in The Jewish Insider by Matthew Kassel, which focused on one book in particular. Additionally, Oppenheimer suggests the selection “was a surprising choice” because Coates previously served as a National Book Foundation board member. The Literarian Award is given for “outstanding service to the literary community.” Coates, who is the father of […]