Calls for writers to reap rewards as British publishers enjoy record-breaking yearA record-breaking year for publishers has been greeted with renewed demands for authors to receive a bigger slice of income and investment, as sales of books passed the £5.7bn mark in 2017.Book sales income was up 5% on the previous year, according to annual figures released by the Publishers Association. In sharp contrast, a recent survey of authors’ earnings revealed a 42% drop over the last decade, with the median annual income now below £10,500. Related: Publishers are paying writers a pittance, say bestselling authors Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has become "the fastest-selling book in the UK in three... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dickens or Denisovich? Mailer or Malamud? This professor agonized over the reading list for a class of prison inmates. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost four decades after Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough founded North Atlantic Books in Vermont, the press, which has been in Berkeley, Calif., since 1977, continues to evolve within the body, mind, and spirit segment. From a two-person operation with roots in the poetry journal Io that... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Select Committee Report into library closures will not be released until the end of October... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First-day sales of The Casual Vacancy are "exceeding expectations," according to the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Casual Vacancy, the first adult novel by Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, receives a mixed response from newspaper critics. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E L James has become only the 12th writer to score sales of 10m or more since official sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government is also pressuring Chinese publishers to stop translating and publishing Japanese content as tension increases between the two countries. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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E L James has become only the 12th writer to score sales of 10m or more since official sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Allen Lane has dominated the shortlist for this year’s £10,000 Royal Society Winton... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Square Peg has acquired a cookery book which explores the history and traditions of sweets, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Not content at stopping with its recent European tour, Google Play Books has made the trip to Japan and brought back a handful of new features. In addition to support for reading Japanese books in a vertical, right-to left layout, Mountain view now lets users tap on names of geographical spots... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble Nook is ramping up its digital media offerings with a new video-download and rental service. Continue reading at AllThingsD
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Books by Japanese authors and titles about Japanese topics have been removed from bookshops in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s almost here, the publishing industry’s annual literary Oktoberfest: the Frankfurt Book Fair. This year’s edition officially kicks off on October 10, with more than 150,000 professional visitors representing some 7,500 companies and 110 countries expected to gather to trade rights, network,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose affair with then-President Bill Clinton paralysed the nation, has been shopping a memoir for several weeks, and according to the New York Post, she has apparently sold it for US$12 million (NZ$14.5 million) to an unnamed publisher. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Having grown revenue to just under £20 million since its launch in 2003 to the year ended March 31, 2012, largely on the strength of inexpensive children’s and adult print books, Igloo Books, based in Northamptonshire, England, is looking to digital and international markets to drive its next... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books by Francesca Simon, Anthony Horowitz, Shirley Hughes and Lauren Child will be included in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past few semesters the University of Kansas Bookstore and a growing number of independent college stores have begun taking advantage of the way students comparison shop for textbooks by sharing their competitors’ prices on their own store’s Web sites and/or pricing books dynamically... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children's Books has acquired an illustrated young fiction series, Monster and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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