Amazon acquires Middle East e-commerce site SOUQ.com

Amazon has acquired Middle Eastern e-commerce website SOUQ.com in a deal referred to as "the biggest-ever technology M&A transaction in the Arab world". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray acquires Bodleian director's history of knowledge

John Murray is to publish Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden, director of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 22:22:06 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Obama leapfrogs Wicks as Rooney holds firm

Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin) has leapt into the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one slot, defeating Joe Wicks' Wean in 15 (Bluebird) after three weeks at the top. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 09:17:00 UTC ]
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2020 Amazon Literary Partnership Grant Recipients Announced

The Amazon Literary Partnership has announced $1 million in grant funding to 66 organizations across the publishing industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon sale drops the price of a Kindle to $60

Need an e-reader to get through pandemic lockdowns? Now’s a good time to get one. Amazon is running a sale on the standard Kindle that drops the price of the Special Offers version to $60, or $30 below its usual price. That’s similar to historic lows... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2020-05-25 15:30:13 UTC ]
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Booksellers concerned over opening date delay as Amazon ramps up

Booksellers are becoming increasingly concerned that the UK government still hasn't given them a definitive opening date, as Amazon's business starts to return to normal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-22 08:12:28 UTC ]
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Buster Books acquires Jess French's mindfulness-inspired picture book

Buster Books, the children's imprint of Michael O’Mara Books, will publish CBeebies presenter Dr Jess French's first book. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-21 16:01:48 UTC ]
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Puffin snaps up Tom Fletcher's fourth middle-grade novel

Puffin will publish Tom Fletcher's fourth middle-grade novel, The Danger Gang, illustrated by Shane Devries, this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-21 03:19:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow snaps up middle-grade novels from Webster

Nosy Crow has acquired the rights to two standalone middle-grade novels by Hayley Webster. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 08:10:55 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Wicks and Rooney score a hat-trick

For a third week running, Joe Wicks' Wean in 15 (Bluebird) and Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) have topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold categories for the week ending 17th May. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 23:05:04 UTC ]
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Deacon leaves Amazon for Bookouture

Laura Deacon, currently editorial director at Amazon Publishing, is joining Bookouture in August as publishing director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 06:24:11 UTC ]
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Times of India, New York Times, News Corp Share Content-to-Commerce Case Studies

Leaders of content-to-commerce initiatives at three global news media companies shared in-depth looks at how those projects started and how they are Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-18 19:00:36 UTC ]
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Walker acquires YouTuber Nikki Lilly's motivational life guide

Walker books will publish Nikki Lilly's Come on Life: Highs, Lows and How to Live Your Best Teen Life.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 16:39:01 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury acquires pandemic-inspired picture book

Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired a pandemic-inspired picture book from author Michelle Robinson, with illustrations by Emily Hamilton. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 13:35:10 UTC ]
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Trustbridge Global Media Acquires Walker Books

In another move to broaden its reach in the worldwide children’s book publishing market, Trustbridge has acquired Walker Books, the U.K.-based children’s publisher and owner of Candlewick Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Firefly signs second middle-grade novel by Jennifer Killick

Independent children's and YA publisher Firefly Press will publish a second middle-grade Crater Lake novel by Jennifer Killick.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-06 17:15:35 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Rooney scores a blinder

Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) has soared six places up the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart to score the number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 17:09:49 UTC ]
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Lifestyle Publishers Are Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom

Generally speaking, surges in online traffic during the pandemic have not translated to commensurate revenue growth for consumer-facing publishers, of whom an overwhelming majority anticipate a decline in digital advertising this year as marketers are forced to cancel, adjust or delay... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-04 19:08:35 UTC ]
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W H Allen acquires How Not to be Wrong by James O'Brien

W H Allen is to publish How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O'Brien, with editorial director Jamie Joseph acquiring all rights directly from the author. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 12:59:16 UTC ]
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Amazon's VAT windfall

From 1 May, bringing forward a plan originally scheduled for the end of the year, the Government has removed VAT from e-books. It was a change lobbied for by many writers, as well as the big publishers. They rallied under the stirring slogan ‘No Tax on Learning’. This is a good thing, surely,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 08:40:06 UTC ]
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Virago acquires historian Virginia Nicholson's Undressing Women

Virago has acquired Undressing Women from historian Virginia Nicholson, exploring 100 years of women's lives in British history through fashion and beauty. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 00:00:02 UTC ]
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