A Summer at Sea drops anchor at number one for Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde has reeled in her first ever number one spot in the Official UK Top 50, as A Summer at Sea (Arrow) swam up the chart in its second week on sale. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cursed Child leads retailers’ summer reads

Booksellers are preparing for another blockbuster summer of sales, with a second successive year of “event publishing” shoring up the industry in the sunny season, and one retailer declaring “we feel like we are winning again”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stibbe and Hornby star in Foyles summer events

Foyles will host a line-up of events this summer featuring authors Joe Hill, Nina Stibbe, Nick Hornby and the president of TED, Chris Anderson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Here's what Bill Gates says you should read this summer

Oprah has her book club. Mark Zuckerberg had his Year of Books. And Bill Gates has his annual reading lists — book recommendations shared each year by the Microsoft founder and philanthropist. Gates' 2016 list of summertime reads, complete with an animated video describing his picks, was released... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ghomeshi Signs a Peace Bond; Sexual Assault Charge Dropped

Former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi was scheduled to go to trial in June, but the complainant in this final sexual assault trial agreed to drop the charges in exchange for a peace bond and an apology. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK ebook sales drop for the first time

It seems that our love affair with ebooks could be turning sour. For the first time since digital book sales were recorded, the number of ebooks sold in the UK dropped in 2015. The drop could be partly explained by the fact that we seem to be reading less in recent years. While sales of printed... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US indie bookshop numbers soar

The news coming from the American Booksellers Association at BEA is that there’s been a net increase of 660 independent stores since 2009 – a reflection if ever there was one of the growing power of localism in the US. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac scores hat-trick with three number ones

Pan Macmillan has scored a hat-trick this week by taking three number one positions across fiction and non-fiction in the Nielsen BookScan bestseller charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Galbraith' claims third straight number one

Robert Galbraith’s Career of Evil (Sphere) has defeated the Star Wars Expert Guide (Dorling Kindersley) to take the Official UK Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paula Hawkins launches R&J summer book club

Paula Hawkins' bestseller The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) will launch this year's Richard and Judy summer book club, with W H Smith also unveiling the club's "fresh" new look. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales, Earnings Drop at HarperCollins

Revenue fell 11% in the quarter ended March 31, 2016 compared to the period ended March 31, 2015 and earnings tumbles 36%, to $36 million. E-book sales were down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abrams Dropping Stewart, Tabori & Chang Name

Beginning with this fall’s list Abrams will phase out the name of its Stewart, Tabori & Chang imprint and publish all titles under the Abrams banner. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion acquires The People at Number 9

Orion Fiction has acquired a tale of "sex, envy and betrayal in the suburbs" in The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pupil interest in reading drops in secondary school

Secondary school pupils are far less interested in reading than children at primary school, with only 40% of 14-16 year-olds saying they enjoy reading compared with more than 70% of 8-11 year-olds, according to a new National Literacy Trust (NLT) report. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Day dawns for Sylvia’s fourth straight number one

Sylvia Day has stormed into the Official Top 50 number one spot, as One with You (Penguin) outsold previous chart-topper Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) by over 17,116 copies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tough US market contributes to export drop, PA figures suggest

The colouring book boom and continued strength in UK education publishing was not enough to compensate for tough export markets in 2015, notably in the US, according to statistics collated by the Publishers Association. The invoiced value of UK publishers’ sales of books for export fell 3% year... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic

Some social-centric publishers saw double-digit drops in their Facebook referral traffic last month, with some suspecting that this is the flip side of Facebook's pushing Instant Articles (and video) into people’s news feeds. Those initiatives are designed to keep people in Facebook's app, but... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child makes it two weeks at number one

Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) has held the number one spot for a second consecutive week, selling 36,697 copies for £138,058, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child elbows Joe Wicks off the top spot for 14th number one

Lee Child has claimed his 14th number one as Make Me (Bantam), the 20th Jack Reacher novel, swiped the top spot from Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15 (Bluebird). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In praise of little black numbers

The addition of 46 titles to Penguin’s Little Black Classics, from Jane Austen to the suffragettes, gives cause for renewed celebrationThe people at Penguin might be overstating things when they insist that their Little Black Classics “sparked a reading revolution”. All the same, sales of these... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Attendance drops at revamped Livre Paris

The revamped four-day Paris Book Fair, now called Livre Paris, closed last night with a drop in visitor numbers of about 15% from last year’s 180,000, which in turn were 10% fewer than the year before. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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