After 600k personalised picture-book sales, London firm secures investment from Silicon Valley firms Google Ventures and GreycroftChildren’s storytelling startup Lost My Name raised its first $100k of funding in 2014 on TV show Dragon’s Den. Now the London-based firm is turning to Silicon Valley for a $9m funding round.The investment – led by Google Ventures with venture capital firms Greycroft and The Chernin Group also participating – follows more than 600k sales of Lost My Name’s first personalised picture-book since its launch two years ago. Related: Nosy Crow talks fairytales, reluctant readers and game-like apps for kids Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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The Society of Authors in Scotland has been awarded a grant in the latest round of funding from Creative Scotland to host ScotsWrite, a three-day event for authors in Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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David Walliams new children's book has been revealed as The World’s Worst Children 2. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder Children’s Books (HCB) has inked a two-book deal with YA author Rebecca Sky. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Australian children’s press New Frontier Publishing has set up an office in London to focus on the UK market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has acquired new titles from Katie Blackburn, the pseudonym for Faber's children's publisher Leah Thaxton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet and playwright Kiran Millwood Hargrave has been named the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 for her debut novel The Girl of Ink and Stars (Chicken House). Continue reading at The Bookseller
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They shot to fame around the world overnight, the most unlikely of heroes, three cows stranded by the Kaikoura earthquake. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Germany's ContentShift opens applications to startups for a second year, The Netherlands' Renew the Book concludes its second year with its award. The post Publishing Startup Notes: Germany’s ContentShift; The Netherlands’ Renew the Book appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The politically beleaguered National Endowment for the Humanities has granted $195,000 to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas to catalog and digitize the archives of free speech organization PEN International. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group is publishing a second cookbook and storybook compilation by "Great British Bake Off" winner and author Nadiya Hussain, Nadiya's Bake Me a Festive Story, this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rapper and producer Jay Z has partnered with the Weinstein Company to produce a feature film and documentary series about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager killed by George Zimmerman in 2012. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Unsung Stories is to publish 2084, a new collection of dystopian fiction featuring exclusive new stories from Christopher Priest, Lavie Tidhar, David Hutchinson and Jeff Noon, in July. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Joanna Cannon has signed another two-book deal with The Borough Press for six figures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the first 11 weeks of 2017, the Children’s market is up 2.6% in value, to £46.4m, compared to the same period a year ago. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bloomsbury Children’s Books has bought world rights to a debut YA novel by Mary Watson and one other title ahead of Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Internationalist, a worker-owned publisher based in the U.K., launched a crowdfunding campaign that allows contributors to get a stake in the company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a March 24 gathering of the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA), booksellers discussed ways for the organization to support author readings in underserved areas. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Phoebe Roy has won Sceptre's "Sceptre Loves" short story prize for "It Was Summer", a story charting a relationship between two men as it changes with the seasons. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tinder Press is publishing a memoir of near-death experiences from Maggie O'Farrell, which she says will be "the only non-fiction book I will ever write". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arts Council England and the Culture Department have revealed the recipients of the £3.9m Libraries Fund announced as part of the Libraries Ambition document. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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