The International Festival of Authors, which returns to the Toronto Harbourfront Center this October 19-29, will feature over 60 fiction writers and poets including Canadian authors Barbara Gowdy and Frances Itani. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has run away with the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 89,852 copies for £347,113, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. This is a 51.9% increase in volume on its first week at the top. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An unconfirmed number of jobs are under consultation at Oxford University Press's English Language Teaching division, the publisher has confirmed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If there’s one characteristic that fans of Sarah Maas’s Throne of Glass series, Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series, and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone series share, it’s this: they can’t read each installment fast enough. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today’s 16th annual Audiobook Tea, presented at BEA by the Audio Publishers Association, features megaselling authors Maggie Stiefvater, Terry McMillan, John Scalzi, and emcee Michael Koryta. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the £10,000 Caine Prize will be announced at an award ceremony and dinner at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, on July 4. The post African Short Stories: Shortlist for 17th Caine Prize Announced appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"It's a little bit like marrying myself," commented publisher Ursula Doyle [pictured] at the launch party for her new imprint, Fleet, at the Horse Hospital arts venue in The Colonnade, Bloomsbury. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s authors will be front and center on the Uptown Stage today, when back-to-back kids’ programming takes place. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s been more than 21 years since Fauzia Burke opened her own online book marketing consulting business, FSB Associates, after working at both Henry Holt and Wiley in-house. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“For many, China is a black box,” said Ruediger Wischenbart, director of international affairs for BookExpo America, as part of his introduction to China By the Numbers, a panel discussion which sought to deliver straightforward data to those interested in the Chinese market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian publisher Coach House Books is marking its 51st anniversary with its second presentation in as many years at the Uptown Stage (today, 1:45 p.m.) for the BEA Selects Literary Fiction program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Unstuffed,’ a Christian take on the decluttering craze, broke the top five in Religion Nonfiction. Plus, Wanda Brunstetter’s Amish Millionaire series tops the Fiction list once again with the latest installment, ‘The Stubborn Father.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere has signed two books from thriller writer Karen Dionne for a "significant" six-figure sum following a "heated" seven-way publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2016 Shanghai Children's Book Fair is issuing calls for applications to its Visiting International Publishers program, children's illustrated books awards and more. The post Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair Announces 2016 Details appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Extreme Prey,' John Sandford's latest Lucas Davenport thriller, is #1 on the iBooks U.S. bestsellers list for the week that ended May 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twelve vloggers have collectively racked up sales of more than £15m in the UK in just 18 months, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury is partnering YA authors with booktubers (vloggers who talk about books on YouTube) for a new anthology. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author Jenny Diski, who published a memoir about living with inoperable lung cancer only last week, has died aged 68. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK has acquired to novels by Swedish author Malin Persson Giolito from Astri von Arbin Ahlander at the Ahlander Agency in Stockholm. UK and Commonwealth rights to Persson Giolito’s Quicksand, as well as her next novel, were bought at auction at the London Book Fair by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Len Riggio, who built Barnes & Noble from a single store into the country's largest bricks-and-mortar bookseller, will retire after the company's September annual meeting. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jan Constantine will step down as the legal counsel of the Authors Guild at the end of April, just a few days after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Guild's appeal in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Google. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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