Bookstat chart: Girl Beneath the Sea surges to top spot, Rooney shoots to second

Andrew Mayne's The Girl Beneath the Sea (Thomas & Mercer) has made a splash in the Bookstat e-book top 10, sailing straight into the number one. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 09:58:28 UTC ]
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Footage of Beatles' only Top of the Pops live show found

David Chandler raids his attic to find a 90-second film of the Fab Four performing Paperback Writer. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2019-05-29 15:58:58 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2019: Pirates Still Plague the E-book Seas

Digital book piracy isn’t going anywhere, legal enforcement on the issue is getting worse and worse, and if publishers and authors don't band together and force compliance, they'll be playing ebook buccaneering Whack-a-Mole forever, the Authors Guild panel determined. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter co-founder says more diverse team might've spotted abuse

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams said Wednesday that the social network might have been quicker to recognize and address the potential for abuse and harassment on its platform if the company’s leadership had been more diverse. When Twitter went public in 2013, it came under fire for having only... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-23 19:28:23 UTC ]
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Logic Adds a No. 1 Album to His 2019 Chart Toppers

“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” topped the Billboard list after the rapper’s debut novel, “Supermarket,” had become a best seller. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-05-20 18:11:03 UTC ]
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Logic Adds a No. 1 Album to His 2019 Chart Toppers

“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” topped the Billboard list after the rapper’s debut novel, “Supermarket,” had become a best seller. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-05-20 18:11:03 UTC ]
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The new Normal: Rooney grabs first Mass Market number one as Pinch of Nom rolls on

A day after winning two British Book Awards for Novel of the Year and the overall Book of the Year, Sally Rooney has claimed her first Mass Market Fiction number one.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Warrior Girls (shelftalker)

A bookseller reflects on the new crop of weapon-wielding heroines on book jackets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-14 12:13:52 UTC ]
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Wellingtonians dominate top gongs at NZ Book Awards

Dame Fiona Kidman takes home a $53,000 prize for her acclaimed novel, 'This Mortal Boy' at the awards, held in Auckland on Tuesday night. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Booker Prize sponsors make Sunday Times Rich List top 50

Husband and wife Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman are among the 50 wealthiest individuals or families in the UK, worth £3bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sally Rooney's Normal People wins big at British Book Awards

The Irish writer's "exceptional" novel beat Michelle Obama to the top prize at The British Book Awards. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Darden, attorney for suspect in Nipsey Hussle shooting, to withdraw from case

The attorney representing the man accused of gunning down Nipsey Hussle said Friday he is withdrawing from the case, citing personal reasons. Chris Darden, a former prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, announced the decision in a Facebook post Friday morning, noting that he and his children had... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pinch of Nom surges to fourth number one

With another strong week, Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom (Bluebird) notched its second UK Official Number One on the trot and claimed its fourth non-consecutive pole position. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Race to the bottom’: Top publishing execs sound off on the biggest challenges in the industry

See our five major takeaways from the Digiday Publishing Summit. The post ‘Race to the bottom’: Top publishing execs sound off on the biggest challenges in the industry appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pinch of Nom whips E L James from the number one spot

Pinch of Nom (Bluebird) has boomeranged back into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s record-breaking slimming cookbook selling 45,198 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market to defeat E L James’ The Mister (Arrow) after just one week.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Green shoots: Bath Spa MA leader muses on graduate success after Bologna spree

Julia Green, the woman who founded Bath Spa’s Masters in Writing for Young People, says teaching students humility and perserverence is the key to the course’s recent success. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Castellucci to Publish Graphic Memoir ‘Girl on Film’ in November

Noted YA novelist and comics writer Cecil Castellucci will team with Boom! Studios to publish Girl on Film, a graphic memoir, in November 2019 Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Packham reveals death threats made in bird-shooting row

Hampshire police investigate intimidation of Springwatch presenter and familyThe broadcaster and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham has revealed he and his family received death threats days after dead crows were strung up outside his home in an escalating row about shooting birds.He also... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alexander and Rooney shortlisted for CLiPPA poetry prize

Five poets, including Kwame Alexander and Rachel Rooney, are shortlisted for this year’s CLiPPA Poetry Award, given annually by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'This generation is different'; Frances-White says women will take trade's top jobs

Almost 200 people attended the first official Conduit event, as host Deborah Frances-White spoke of how soon the industry’s top jobs will “routinely” be taken by women as this generation smashes the glass ceiling. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myanmar’s top court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters journalists

Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the verdicts of two Pulitzer prize-winning journalists for Reuters who were jailed while reporting on the country’s violent suppression of Rohingya Muslims. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been imprisoned since December 2017 and are serving... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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