This is the last year that British authors are likely to be eligible to enter the European Book Prize (Prix du Livre Européen), with the UK's exit from the European Union looming in March 2019.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The children’s book industry will continue to see demand for beautiful print books and diverse stories in 2016, and the market for Young Adult titles by UK authors will go from strength to strength, according to publishers and editors.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some of the UK’s most famous authors and publishers are donating their earnings from book sales to raise £1m for Syrian refugees.
The post UK Authors, Publishers Donate Book Sales to Syrian Refugees appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is changing the way it pays self-published authors whose books are enlisted in the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending library to a pay-per-page-read model.
From 1st July, it will pay Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) author royalties depending on how many pages of a book a customer...
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carole Tonkinson’s new non-fiction imprint at Pan Macmillan is to be called Bluebird, with the tagline “books for life”.
Tonkinson joined Pan Macmillan from HarperCollins in autumn 2014, and has already signed a number of books for her inspirational lifestyle imprint, which specialises in...
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing plans to grow its list of UK titles and authors “substantially” in 2015, Eoin Purcell, UK head of Amazon Publishing, has told The Bookseller.
The publisher is also “constantly looking to create new platforms to connect authors and readers”, Purcell said.
Amazon Publishing UK,...
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the UK, authors are paid by the government when their physical books are borrowed (around 6p per loan), but digital titles are not yet a part of that agreement.
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[ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]