A Promised Land digs in, with PRH reporting 100,000 second week sales

Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Viking) has secured a second week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Derkacz joins HarperCollins as sales director

Anna Derkacz is joining HarperCollins as sales director for fiction, non-fiction and Avon in the New Year to cover the maternity leave of Laura Fletcher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Inaugural IPG report finds resilience and optimism

The UK independent publishing industry is strong and flourishing, according to the Independent Publishers Guild’s first Independent Publishing Report. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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This Week's Bestsellers: November 16, 2015

Jeff Kinney’s 10th Wimpy Kid installment, ‘Old School,’ is the number one book in the country. Plus Leah Remini writes a Scientology tell-all, YouTube baker Rosanna Pansino cooks up her first book, and much more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Neal Price to join Canongate as sales director

Neal Price is joining Canongate as sales director, following 11 years as sales director for Faber. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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40-year-old Browsers Bookshop up for sale

Browsers Book Shop in Woodbridge, Suffolk is up for sale, after bookseller and owner Martin Whitaker, 57, has decided to retire after 10 years at the store’s helm. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Religion and Spirituality On-Sale Calendar: December 2015

Big titles slated to publish in December include Adam Hamilton’s ‘John: The Gospel of Light and Life,' 'Life and Death' by medium Tim Braun, and 'The Teacup and the Skullcap' which differentiates tantra from Zen traditions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iraq War book wins £25,000 writing prize

A former US Marine wins the biennial Warwick Prize for Writing for his book of short stories dealing with American experiences of the Iraq War. Continue reading at BBC News

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Trade Sales Up in July

Sales from reporting publishers to AAP's StatShot program increased 10.9% in the month compared to July 2014 in the adult book category, while sales in the children’s/young adult segment rose 11.5%. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International Hot Book Properties, Week of Monday, November 9, 2015

Among the books generating interest across the globe are a nonfiction account of a photographer who was held captive by ISIS, and a book by a German forestry expert which posits that trees can communicate. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Soft E-book Sales Underscore Down HBG Results

Revenue at Hachette Book Group USA fell 4.2% in the third quarter of 2015. Parent company Lagardere blamed the drop in part on lower ebook sales and a stronger publication schedule in the same period in 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Futurebook Conference launches a week of daily deals

The Bookseller is to launch a week of FutureBook offers in the run-up to the FutureBook Conference on 4th December. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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8 Intriguing and Fun Digital Marketing Stats From the Past Week

The past week of digital marketing data involved everything from serious stats on Facebook's diminishing referrals for some publishers to the a goofy clip-on man bun going viral on Groupon. 1. Snapchat video views have tripled since May and now total 6 billion every day, according to a... Continue reading at AdWeek

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Academic Book Week: trade and academy join for seven days of debate and discussion

Debate about the future of the academic book will rage across the UK this week, with widespread support among publishers, academics, booksellers and librarians for the first Academic Book Week. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Pedersen's 'Guardians' wins $75,000 Cundill Prize

Canadian historian Susan Pedersen's The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press) has won the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Book Deals: Week of November 9, 2015

Grammy–winner Kelly Rowland delves into baby talk at Da Capo, former KGB agent Jack Barsky tells his story for Tyndale, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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News Briefs: Week of November 9, 2015

Booksellers challenge age-verification law and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Declining E-Book Sales Hit Home

Softening sales for digital books have impacted the bottom lines at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, according to both companies' recent earnings reports. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Infographic: Launching University Press Week, November 8-14

University Press Week runs November 8-14. This handy infographic summarizes all you need to know about this dynamic segment of the publishing industry. The post Infographic: Launching University Press Week, November 8-14 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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This Week's Bestsellers: November 9, 2015

Adult coloring books take 12 of the top 25 trade paperback bestseller spots, with Johanna Basford’s ‘Lost Ocean' coming out on top. Plus fiction and nonfiction from all along the political spectrum (Rush Limbaugh, meet Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending November 6, 2015

This week saw the opening of an art bookstore in Chicago, and the reopening of a Michigan indie. Further south, in Raleigh, N.C., a bookstore-restaurant-brewery-florist shop is in the works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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