Unit sales of English-language trade print books sold in Canada fell 2% in the first half of 2024 from the comparable period in 2023 at stores that report data to BookNet Canada. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
A Conversation with Translators Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, by Aitana Bellido Interviews [email protected] Mon, 07/08/2024 - 15:14 Charlotte Collins (left) and Ruth Martin (photo courtesy of Michael Jershov)With the Open University of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-07-08 20:14:29 UTC ]
Print book sales were up in May, books by Stephen King, Kristin Hannah, Emily Henry, and Dr. Seuss. Check out the top 10 books sold in the adult and children's markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-20 13:30:00 UTC ]
One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-01-24 05:01:16 UTC ]
The author of the “Slow Horses” series says he relates more with failures. With millions of books sold and the third season of the series airing next month, he may have to wrap his head around success. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-19 10:00:58 UTC ]
Sample of books scored 100% on AI detection test as experts warn they contain dangerous adviceAmateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots.Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-09-01 16:32:27 UTC ]
There were 669m physical books sold in the UK last year, according to new figures from the Publishers AssociationThe UK publishing industry had a “record-breaking year” in 2022, with a total income of £6.9bn.A Year in Publishing, a look at the state of the book market by trade body the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-17 11:26:08 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a poet, playwright, andfeminist, who enjoyed considerable success during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. As A. Mary Murphy notes in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-09 18:00:15 UTC ]
Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the worldPeter Robinson was the creator of the immensely popular Inspector Alan Banks crime series, set in Yorkshire – the books sold almost 9m copies in 19 languages and spawned a successful... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-14 16:44:04 UTC ]
His books sold nearly 9 million copies around the world with intricate and multilayered plots of crime, espionage and moral quandaries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-09-13 23:18:42 UTC ]
Holiday print sales in children's books helped the US market gain 3 percent in the week ending April 16. The post An Easter Surprise in the States: 30 Million More Books Sold Than in 2019 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-04-25 18:01:38 UTC ]
Her books sold more than 11 million copies and earned her top literary honors in Britain. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-05 00:28:45 UTC ]
Booming appetites for crime, sci-fi and romance drive fiction sales 20% higher than in 2019, with Richard Osman the year’s bestselling authorBook sales continued to climb last year despite lockdowns, with more than 212m print books sold in 2021 – the highest figure of the last decade.Driven by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-11 17:21:11 UTC ]
There are only about 2,000 or so independent bookstores in the United States, and I was lucky enough to grow up in one of them. In 1972, when books sold for around 75 cents, my mother Susan Little was a young hippie living in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She worked at the local bar, slinging... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-06 08:53:37 UTC ]
Nielsen BookScan has estimated the full-year print market for 2020 at 202 million books sold for £1.76bn, a 5.2% rise in volume and a 5.5% increase in value compared to 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-22 10:32:48 UTC ]
Among the big books sold this week are a nonfiction book from former National Security Council member Fiona Hill, a nonfiction book on skyscrapers, and a book about how sports is helping the country to transform its understanding of sex and gender. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops reopening since lockdown restrictions eased have boosted the market 18% in volume against the same period in 2019, with 14.6 million books sold since shop doors opened. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-17 09:17:49 UTC ]
With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last weekBritain’s readers have been emerging from lockdown to restock their bookshelves, with book sales – and particularly crime novels – booming in the three weeks since... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-07 16:17:09 UTC ]
Prolific author of fast-paced thrillers, including Raise the Titanic!, featuring the adventure hero Dirk PittThe prolific and popular novelist Clive Cussler, who has died aged 88, combined adventure and technology into fast-paced thrillers. Ubiquitous and easily recognisable on airport... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-27 16:45:35 UTC ]
According to The Guardian, Lee Child, whose popular Jack Reacher books (and by popular, I mean over 100 million books sold in 49 languages across 101 territories) are soon to become an Amazon series, is quitting his most famous character. “I love my readers and know they want many, many more... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-21 15:51:39 UTC ]