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Sydney Davies, the Booksellers Association’s head of trade and industry, is retiring after 26 years. The BA has appointed Giles Clifton, a non-practising barrister, to the new role of head of corporate affairs following his departure. Clifton will begin in October and focus on lobbying for the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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With competition for bookstore shelf space as fierce as ever and the Inspire Book Fair gone for good, publishers are looking for new ways to reach potential readers. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Educational Development Corp. has acquired Demibooks Inc., a Chicago-based app developer whose main product is Demibooks Storytime, a curated marketplace for children's picture book apps. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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The book team at Nielsen held its second-annual Children's Book Summit, to discuss the current children's publishing market, presenting data that showed a wide range of sales and demographic trends. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Perspectives on scale from two publishing CEOs. The post Size Doesn’t Matter appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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Picador has acquired a "deeply personal narrative" by Observer writer and former Faber & Faber editor-in-chief, Robert McCrum. Sophie Jonathan, editor at Picador, bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Every Third Thought: Observations on the Inevitable End-Game from Jonathan Lloyd at Curtis... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Orion has snapped up rights to a humour gift book from the owner of Marnie the Dog, who has over 1m followers on Instagram. Anna Valentine, non-fiction publishing director at Orion, bought UK & Commonwealth rights from Nicole Bond at Grand Central Publishing for Marnie the Dog: I’m a Book,... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Big Green Bookshop is to hold a “pay what you like” sale to raise money for the Jungle Library in Calais. The independent bookshop in London’s Wood Green has so far raised £2,500 for the so-called Jungle Library– a makeshift library set up by teacher Mary Jones at the refugee camp in... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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If you've ever watched a BuzzFeed video, chances are you've heard the music of Birocratic. In 2013, independent music producer Brandon Rowan discovered after a tremendous spike in traffic that his instrumental hip-hop songs had become the soundtrack to many of the digital publisher's viral... Continue reading at 'Digiday'
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Publishers are using new methods to give advertisers a better picture of ROI. The post Getting Creative With Accountability appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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Oneworld has appointed Alex Christofi as commissioning editor for non-fiction, following the departure of Mike Harpley. Christofi will report to Oneworld’s publisher, Juliet Mabey, and focus on acquiring "big-ideas" books across a range of narrative non-fiction. Christofi was previously an... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Apple's long-running court battle over manipulating the pricing of ebooks is getting even more dramatic. Next stop, the Supreme Court, Fortune reports. Back in June, Apple failed to get a Manhattan appeals court to overturn a 2014 ruling that woul... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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Chicken House has confirmed it is breaking with Cornelia Funke over the Mirrorworld series, but will still publish the backlist and hopes to work with the author in the future. The German author and illustrator is launching her own publishing house after disagreeing with her editors in the UK... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Egmont has signed a book deal with Joseph Garrett, the YouTube star who posts videos about the game Minecraft as the character Stampy Cat. Garrett has signed a two-book deal and the first title, Stampy’s Lovely Book (h/b, £7.99), features comics, jokes and activities based on Stampy and his... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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News Corporation announced Wednesday that it was buying Unruly, a video ad technology company, in a deal worth up to $176 million that underscores the publishing company’s continued push to remake itself for the digital age. Fou ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has revealed plans to build a rocket manufacturing plant and launch site from Florida’s ‘Space Coast’, the area around Kennedy Space Centre and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Bezos’ space start-up, Blue Origin, will invest $200m in new manufacturing facilities and... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Claire Cartey and Penny Holroyde have teamed up to launch a new agency for authors and illustrators of both adult and children’s books. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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At Random House headquarters on September 10, the team behind the publication of the 'What Pet Should I Get?' spoke first-hand about the process, while also sharing anecdotes and little-known facts about Geisel's life and career. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Kantar Media numbers show decline in magazine ads, increase in some digital. The post Ad Spending Skid Tacks on Another 3.9 Percent Dip in Q2 2015 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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The first book from the winner of the Bracken Bower Prize, Saadia Zahidi, has been acquired by Nation Books. The book’s North American rights were sold to Katy O’Donnell, editor at Nation Books, by literary agent Eric Lupfer at William Morris Endeavor. Zahidi’s outline for the book was the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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