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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This week in children's apps, a bestselling bedtime story comes to life, Little Critter learns about generosity, and The Cat in the Hat explores the weather. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faced with a difficult comparison to last year's third quarter, sales at Simon & Schuster fell 11% in the third period ended September 30, 2014, compared to the same period last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The popularity of the digital subscription model continues to grow with the announcement that ebook subscription service Scribd will now offer unlimited access to more than 30,000 audiobooks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles is a finalist in the Customer Innovation of the Year category at the Oracle Retail Week Awards. The retailer is shortlisted for its "digital shopping service" Foyles Book Search . Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade segment rose 1.5% in the third quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, rising to $46.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA , however, dropped 16.3% to $7.2 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Helen Macdonald wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is for Hawk, a memoir about how becoming a falconer helped her deal with grief. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK is to close its Penguin Benelux and France and Penguin Germany offices, putting up to six roles at risk of redundancy, as part of a restructure of its international and group companies’ sales teams. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams' Awful Auntie (HarperCollins) retains pole position at the top of the official UK Top 50 for a record-breaking sixth week selling another 31,012 copies in the seven days ending 1st November. Volume sales were down 13% week on week but the bestseller has yet to sell less than... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The company reported that third quarter revenue for the period ended September 30, 2014, rose to $54.5 million, from $54.2 million in the comparable quarter in 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Canada has canceled the forthcoming book by former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi, who is currently embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French trade publication Livres Hebdo has scrapped its monthly distance print book sales barometer, which measured online and mail order sales, as an indirect result of Amazon’s refusal to provide any of its data to market research agencies. This refusal prompted Fnac, the largest cultural... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has created four talking books for blind and partially sighted children thanks to a £13,000 donation from The Book People. The Book People donated the money to the RNIB Read campaign, which is aimed at making reading more accessible for blind... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cheltenham Literature Festival had a “record-breaking” 2014, with almost 140,000 tickets sold, up 7% from the year before. People from all bar three UK postcodes attended the festival, and both Saturdays of the 10-day event saw more than 20,000 in attendance. Meanwhile Waterstones, the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: new Richard Ford, how music was captured, and classic children's books get gnarly. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Vroman's begins celebrating its 120th, other, younger, stores are finding their way by combining an office and online retail (Russo's Books) or seeking nonprofit status (Wild Iris Books). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Perennial bestseller Danielle Steel has signed a ten-book deal with Penguin Random House's Ballantine Bantanm Dell imprint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House is to take its interactive narrative gaming experience Black Crown offline at the end of this week, with creator Rob Sherman conceding that "the economics do not stand up". The online narrative gaming project, with Sherman's story set in the shady Widsith Institute,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales bumps after books are adapted as movies or TV shows are nothing new, but 'Gone Girl' author Flynn and 'Outlander' writer Gabaldon are seeing their older books reappear and hold steady on bestseller lists as well. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Gray Mountain,' the latest novel from John Grisham, debuted on Apple’s iBooks chart at #2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The dismantling of German retailing group Douglas by its American owners Advent International is gathering pace, and with it speculation that a sale of the Douglas-owned book chain Thalia is imminent, possibly even this year. The largest brick-and-mortar bookseller in the German-speaking... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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