Aster secures two more Slimming Foodie titles

Aster has acquired two more books from Pip Payne, founder of the award-winning blog The Slimming Foodie and author of The Slimming Foodie, published by the Octopus imprint earlier this year.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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China’s top titles for 2017 revealed

Publishers and booksellers in China, the 2018 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Guest of Honour country, enjoyed another record year in 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meredith Is Putting a Number of Newly Acquired Titles Up for Sale, Including Sports Illustrated

Meredith Corp. CEO Tom Harty had some big news to share with Time Inc. staffers during a town hall yesterday in New York: Legendary (and newly acquired) titles Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money and Time will be sold. The Iowa-based Meredith owns monthly magazines that target women, including... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Major UK booksellers accused of listing far-right titles for sale

Booksellers Amazon, W H Smith, Waterstones and Foyles have become the subject of a Hope not hate campaign, which has accused them of listing far-right books for sale. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vashti Harrison pens second inspirational women title

Vashti Harrison, the author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, is writing a second title about visionary women. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers remove racist and Holocaust denial titles from their websites

Anti-racist group Hope Not Hate says Waterstones, Foyles, WH Smith and Amazon are lending respectability to offensive books, but retailers say listings come from uncurated feedMajor booksellers have been accused of lending a veneer of respectability to antisemitic and neo-Nazi books by featuring... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wellcome Book Prize’s 2018 Shortlist: Five of Six Titles Are by Women

Themed on medical science and society’s relationship to it, the Wellcome Book Prize announces a shortlist for 2018 that includes four debuts. One title is a novel, one is a memoir, and four are nonfiction. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Health and the Human Experience’... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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France’s Literature in Translation: The 10 Shortlisted Titles From the French-American Foundation

Even as the National Book Foundation begins taking submissions for its first translation award this year, the French-American foundation has announced shortlists in its 31st annual translation prizes. The post France’s Literature in Translation: The 10 Shortlisted Titles From the French-American... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin sells Japanese title for six-figure sum

Pushkin Children’s Books has sold the North American rights to The Beast Player series by Japanese author Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano, in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Humble's walking book to Aster

TV presenter Kate Humble has signed with Octopus imprint Aster for a book about the benefits and pleasures of walking. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brain Freeze takes the top spot again as World Book Day titles bounce

Tom Fletcher and Shane Devries’ Brain Freeze (Puffin) has eased into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, selling 46,028 copies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook secures music licensing and baseball streaming deals

Facebook on Friday announced a pair of deals that gets the social networking giant deeper into a pair of popular consumer pursuits — music and baseball. On the music front, Facebook is following up earlier deals it struck with Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV Music Publishing by lining up a... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie Bookstore Cries Censorship After Gay Marriage Title Pulled from School Book Fair

A middle grade title called 'The Best Man' has sparked tensions in Athens, Ga., after complaints from parents led to the book's removal from an indie bookstore's display at a school book fair. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Westchester downs Fairfax, wins 14th City Section title

The best way to attack a sagging zone defense is make some outside shots. Westchester’s Jeremiah Turley, Kevin Bethel and Zellie Hudson took care of that. The guards opened the way for 6-foot-6, 260-pound Kaelen Allen to bully Fairfax defenders inside on Saturday night. It translated into a 14th... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crossan and Pullman titles to contest the YA Book Prize 2018

Philip Pullman is in the running for the YA Book Prize 2018 alongside previous winners Sarah Crossan and Patrice Lawrence, and début author M A Bennett. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers Careful About Pushing Graham Titles

There are a plethora of titles about Billy Graham already in print and some have seen an uptick in sales even as publishers limit new marketing efforts out of respect for late evangelist. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rights Roundup: Eight Titles To Watch in Springtime International Rights Trades

With biography, autobiography, children's literature, new Nordic noir, literary fiction, and a mystery that rides with the Tour de France, we look at several interesting sales stories and rights action the authors of which include a Syrian concert pianist. The post Rights Roundup: Eight Titles... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie bookshops vie for The British Book Awards title

A bumper crop of Britain and Ireland’s best independent bookshops are bucking the market trend, achieving double-digit sales rises in 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate signs psychoanalyst's 'absorbing' title

Canongate has signed an "utterly absorbing and original" literary non-fiction title by psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rights Roundup: Ten Titles Doing Brisk Business Early in the Year

From Germany, the States, Sweden, Spain, Israel, Mexico, and France, here are works of nonfiction, adult trade and children's fiction, including a sweeping graphic memoir and a novel headed for a cinema near you in February. The post Rights Roundup: Ten Titles Doing Brisk Business Early in the... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New literary publisher Fairlight reveals 'stonking' launch title

Newly-established publisher Fairlight Books has revealed the first of its new titles for 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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