You won't make a living wage working as a bookseller in an indie bookstore. Here's a look at wages across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-06-12 10:37:00 UTC ]
Over the past three years, entry-level wages at the Big Five publishers and Scholastic have risen 23%, on average, in response to calls for a living wage, union actions, and inflation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
Managing director says book chain ‘simply not profitable enough’, as Sally Rooney, Val McDermid and other authors write to protestMore than 1,300 writers including Kerry Hudson, David Nicholls, Sally Rooney, Michael Rosen and Val McDermid have backed a campaign for Waterstones booksellers to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Donal Ryan is the latest name forced to seek an income outside books, while children’s writers complain that stars from other media monopolise advancesDespite scoring three bestsellers in five years and a clutch of awards, The Spinning Heart author Donal Ryan has been forced to return... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the ABA town hall, booksellers raised a range of issues, from paying a living wage to whether cover prices should be removed from books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Accent Press founder Hazel Cushion has called on the industry to end “morally wrong” unpaid internships and improve diversity by signing up to pay the Living Wage to staff. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The proposed rise in the Minimum Wage announced by chancellor George Osborne in his recent budget will “hit indies hardest”, booksellers have said. Osborne said the Minimum Wage for people aged 25 and over would rise to £7.20 per hour in April 2016 (it is currently £6.50 per hour for those aged... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Kerry Hudson is setting out ‘a provocation’ calling for wholesale change to encourage and reflect broader spectrum of voicesThe award-winning novelist Kerry Hudson is set to make a bold call for change in UK publishing, which she believes is failing “to reflect the extraordinary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaign group Amazon Anonoymous has delivered a "Christmas card" to the company's UK boss Christopher North challenging him to pay workers the Living Wage. The card, delivered to Amazon's UK headquarters in Slough yesterday (22nd December) was two metres wide and mimicked the design of an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Anonymous campaigners hand-deliver giant Christmas card to online retailer’s UK headquarters and call for company to pay workers a living wageDisenchanted shoppers have taken over £5m worth of business away from Amazon this Christmas in protest at the internet retailer’s business... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foyles has defended the wages of its staff after an online petition called on the company to pay booksellers the Living Wage. The petition at Change.org was set up today (11th December) by Lindsay Woods, who is campaigning for the six-store company to pay all its workers “at least the London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]