The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is to launch a new campaign aimed at bookshops during the London Book Fair. Called Authors for Bookstores, the campaign will launch at the Indie Author Fringe Festival, which will be held on 17th April at Foyles’ Charing Cross Road flagship. ALLi founder and director Orna Ross (pictured) said the organisation saw getting books into bookstores as “the next step for indie authors”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible has launched an audio-visual campaign starring British actors Juliet Stevenson CBE and Eddie Marsan to demonstrate the "highly intimate, visceral nature" of the Audible experience. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The owners of The Big Green Bookshop are to launch a YouTube channel next month that will feature videos showcasing a “mix of the strangeness” that goes on at the shop. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House is celebrating summer with a new campaign, #ByBook, designed to take adult, parent and teen readers to new places and champion books as "the ultimate way to travel". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishers Association, in partnership with London Book Fair, is launching a conference about inclusivity and diversity in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Central London was once again full of wizards, Harrys, Hagrids and Hermiones last night (30th July) as Waterstones Piccadilly and Foyles on Charing Cross Road held extravagant parties to celebrate Little, Brown’s publication of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child– surely already the fastest... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon is partnering with The Reading Agency to work with libraries across the UK to help readers “fall in love” at their library. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly 80% of parents say lack of sleep is the hardest part of raising a child, according to BookTrust, which has surveyed a thousand parents as part of its new Bath Book Bed campaign. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toby Mundy Associates, in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Authors has published a rights guide in advance of the London Book Fair, showcasing 13 independent authors, with sales ranging from 450,000 copies sold to 20,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two works by Pablo Neruda will debut in English after nonprofit poetry press Copper Canyon raised over $50,000 on Kickstarter to fund the project. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s Books Ireland (CBI) is hoping to get kids across the country reading in October through the "Read Everywhere in 2015", campaign. For the campaign, also known as "Níl Turas Níos Fearr Ná Turas le Leabhar!" in Irish, CBI will run a range of activities, including a "The Danger is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is to launch an interactive outdoor campaign at Westfield White City shopping centre in west London for the paperback release of psychological thriller The Ice Twins by S K Tremayne. From 31st August to 14th September customers will be able to download a free sample of the book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Jonathan Stroud is calling for parents and carers to give children time to use their imaginations through his new ‘Freedom to Think’ campaign. Stroud wants parents and carers to make sure children have at least one period each week for ‘unstructured thinking time’ where they can choose... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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San Francisco's mayor challenges large companies to increase their local purchasing by at least 5% and creates SF Biz Connect to help them connect with small area businesses. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Legend Press has partnered with Virgin Trains to celebrate its 10 year anniversary and the launch of the Legend Collection, repackaged editions of five of the publisher’s titles. This is Legend Press’ second promotion with Virgin, after it donated books to be given to Virgin Trains customers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer Abiola Bello and publicist Helen Lewis will launch The Author School, a “creative and innovative new community for aspiring, self-published and published authors”, during London Book Fair. The school will involve classes, workshops, one-to-one tutorials and online courses, with the first... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Already dubbed by the media as a serious contender for Amazon, the new German online bookshop Genialokal.de will finally be launched on March 12th, the first day of the Leipzig Book Fair. The e-commerce platform promotes localism under the banner “fantastically local” and is an initiative of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A newspaper story on Marion Brown’s plight fuels a grassroots campaignA speech last week by the BBC’s head of news, James Harding, was badly received by newspaper publishers, as I reported, because he thinks the corporation needs to fill a reporting vacuum created by a dwindling industry.This... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has launched a Christmas campaign to celebrate the joy of giving and receiving books. As part of the Greatest Gift campaign, 15 key bloggers and BookTubers will upload a post explaining why they think books are the greatest gift to give. Each Greatest Gift “blog tour partner” will also... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bay Area Book Festival, set for June 6-7, is launching an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50,000 to support their first festival in Berkeley. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent booksellers and WH Smith feature on an “alternative” shopping guide for Christmas created by campaign group Amazon Anonymous. The group has teamed up with Ethical Consumer to create an alternative shopping guide for those who have signed up to its “Amazon Free Challenge” – in which... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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