What effect did Super Thursday have on book sales, and how well did eight leading retailers and pundits fare in predicting the top titles of the year?• Readers turn over a new leaf as celebrity sales stutter• ‘Amazon-free’ Christmas campaign diverts reported £5m worth of sales from online retailer• Retailers’ predictions tracked through the autumnSuper Thursday, Black Friday, Panic Saturday, Cyber Monday: if you believe in the power of constructed celebrations of consumerism, almost every day of the week has been a major Christmas event this year. In particular, Black Friday – imported from the US this year as a major discounting day in the UK – promised a surge in Christmas sales.In an attempt to monitor the Christmas market, we asked seven leading UK retailers – which included large chains and independents – plus the industry journal the Bookseller to predict the season’s bestsellers, and we’ve been monitoring their predictions through the autumn. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Among the titles generating interest this week are a Greek short story collection about locals fleeing the debt-ridden nation, and a previously unpublished novel by the grandson of Ché Guevara. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What's your favorite book by Dr. Seuss? To mark the publication of the lost-then-found new Seuss book 'What Pet Should I Get?' PW wants to know about your favorite! Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Lee’s long-lost novel has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK over the past weekEL James’ reign at the top of the UK book charts for the last month with her erotic bestseller Grey has been ended by a novel written in the 1950s and abandoned in a box for decades: Harper Lee’s Go Set a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Vermont-based press will be the first press to offer a book-length look at the agenda of native politico and Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frank Cottrell Boyce has discovered some new literary heroes at the most beguiling library in the world, The International Jugendbibliothek. It was set up after the second world war by a Jewish refugee after Nazi book burning and banning. Here Frank tells us all about it – and kicks off a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books about angels are growing increasingly popular with six titles expected for release over the next few months. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The International Publishers Association and the Federation of European Publishers has released a report of VAT rates on books and ebooks around the world. The post VAT Rates on Books and Ebooks Around the World appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK Children's has acquired a teen book by Emily Barr in a six-figure deal. Editorial director Ruth Knowles bought world rights to The One Memory of Flora Banks, along with a second stand-alone novel, from Lauren Pearson at Curtis Brown. The book is about Flora, a teenage... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended July 12, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Michael Palin, Bill Bryson and William Dalrymple are just some of the names already nominated for the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Go Set a Watchman has become a major hit in a year that needed one and raises questions about American society and its publishing and reading culture. The post On Harper Lee, Pre-orders, and Book Product appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The mayor of Venice has banned books about same-sex families but I and my fellow authors don’t want our work in schools where censorship rulesThe community of children’s and young persons’ authors is a varied and nurturing collection of people, each distinguished by a unique identity. It would... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: the latest from Juan Gabriel Vasquez, and what it's like to be a speechwriter. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s retro-facing sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, hit bookshelves this week. The story of its discovery—it was actually Lee’s first draft of Mockingbird—and publication reads like a novel of its own, and the whole affair has been mired in controversy. But now it’s... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WWII naval disaster story by Lynn Vincent and Sarah Vladic goes to Jonathan Karp at S&S; St. Martin’s Press signs a novel about three Vanderbilt women by Theresa Ann Fowler, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Green takes two of the top 10 spots on this week’s PW Bestsellers list. Plus soccer star Alex Morgan gets a World Cup sales bump, and two thriller series have big weeks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Rizzoli Bookstore will reopen July 27 in New York City, and Books. Inc. puts the finishing touches on its grand opening of its new Berkeley store this weekend. New stores opened in Fresno and in New Richmond, Ohio. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s has named Owen Jones’s The Establishment (Penguin) as its Book of the Year 2015. The company’s employees were asked to vote for their winner from a shortlist of six, namely Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (Profile Books), Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing (Penguin), The Buried Giant by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book sales in the adult and children's/young adult categories fell a combined 8.1% in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the first period of 2014, according to AAP's StatShot program, Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Readers complain missing sentences and paragraphs tainted enjoyment of Harper Lee’s novel, as publisher says replacement copies are being printedA number of the first 25,000 copies of Harper Lee’s new novel Go Set a Watchman are missing paragraphs and sentences from the final pages – with many... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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