How good it was to be forced to read some funny novels in the early days of the virus crisis. A judge’s lot in the Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction - for which the shortlist was announced last week - is usually a happy one. True, it is also a reminder that humour on the page needs... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 07:29:18 UTC ]
Amazon's profits dazzled this week - how Jeff Bezos brought it from bookstore to behemoth in 20 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newsflash! Sequel to Girl Online by Zoe Sugg is on its wayIt was the highest selling book for any debut author – selling a whopping 78,109 copies in its first week - and now Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online is getting a sequel. At the moment we don’t know much about “Girl Online 2” apart from the fact... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
YouTube blogger Zoe Sugg asks fans for patience while she takes a few days off, saying book controversy was ‘clouding up my brain’The YouTube blogger Zoella has revealed she is temporarily quitting the internet amid controversy over her record-breaking debut novel.Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online, about a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed book sales fell below the £20m market last week - for the first time in almost 11... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]