Duffy, Warner and Smith in New Year Honours

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, writer Ali Smith, and historian and novelist Marina Warner are among those named in the New Year Honours 2015.   Duffy is made a Dame for services to poetry, while Warner, whose Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford University Press) was published this autumn, receives a Damehood for services to higher education and literary scholarship. Smith, author of this autumn's Man Booker-shortlisted How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton), is given a CBE for services to literature.    Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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US publishers' revenues leap 4.9% in first quarter

US book publishing revenues have risen 4.9% for the first quarter of 2017 following higher sales in Adult books and higher education course materials, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Pat Barker to publish 'radical' retelling of the Iliad

Hamish Hamilton has acquired a new novel by Booker Prize winner Pat Barker retelling "one of the most dramatic sequences of events in literature", the Iliad. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Hamish Hamilton scoops 'radical' debut after seven-way auction

Hamish Hamilton has acquired debut novel The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh after a seven-way auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Time to talk up the industry

The academic publishing and bookselling sectors are facing multiple calls to “talk up what you do” in the face of a changing political environment around higher education. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Coates' portrait of the Barack Obama era to Hamish Hamilton

Simon Prosser has acquired two new books from Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Baggini can handle the truth in Quercus title

Quercus has signed A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini, founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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S&S buys four Graham Swift backlist titles

Scribner UK has acquired the rights to four backlist titles from Booker-prize winner Graham Swift. The recently revived Simon & Schuster imprint has bought the books from Picador and PRH’s Hamish Hamilton and will publish them later this year. This follows the success of Mothering Sunday,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Global Publishing Leaders 2016: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

The Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a family-owned company based in Germany. The group’s portfolio includes Macmillan Publishers (trade publishing), Macmillan Learning (US higher education), Holtzbrinck Digital, Information and Services; and Springer Nature. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Global Publishing Leaders 2016: McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC (MHGE) is a learning science company focused on higher education, professional learning and information markets both in the US and internationally with content, tools and services delivered via digital, print and hybrid solutions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Global Publishing Leaders 2016: Cengage Learning Holdings II LP

Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K–12, professional and library markets worldwide. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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New Mohsin Hamid title to Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton is publishing a new novel from Mohsin Hamid, the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Rausing’s addiction memoir to Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton and Alfred A Knopf are publishing a memoir by Granta editor Sigrid Rausing in spring 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Check It Out with Andrew Richard Albanese: How the Google Books Case Could Change Fair Use On Campus

Perhaps the biggest question to come from Pierre Leval’s written opinion in the extraordinary case of Google Books, is how it might ripple into the day-to-day application of fair use in higher education. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Macmillan Combines Groups to Create New Learning Division

In the latest evolution of Macmillan’s education business, the company is combining its Higher Education and New Ventures units to create a new division known as Macmillan Learning. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Smith credits Goldsmiths Prize with changing publishing

Author Ali Smith has said the Goldsmiths Prize, which is now in its third year, has encouraged publishers to take risks. The prize, awarded to bold and inventive fiction, was won by Smith last year for How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton). Smith said of the prize: “The change it’s made is that... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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US book sales fall in first five months of 2015

Book sales of traditionally published books in the US fell by almost 6% in the first five months of this year, compared to the same period the year before. Overall sales for trade fiction and non-fiction, children, higher education, professional and university presses were down 5.8% from... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Audiobooks are booming – and now there’s a chart to prove it

The Bookseller’s inaugural top 20 list, led by print bestsellers, is notable for the absence of children’s titles“Listen to any good books on your holidays?” is a question that soon might not sound so weird. More and more of us are downloading audiobooks, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Books by Smith, de Botton and Lewycka among Penguin General 2016 highlights

A collection of essays from Zadie Smith, a novel critiquing the concept of romantic love by Alain de Botton and Marina Lewycka’s first book in four years are among the highlights of Penguin General’s spring 2016 list. Authors and staff from Penguin General – which comprises of imprints Penguin,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Süskind’s digital backlist published

The backlist of Patrick Süskind’s titles, the internationally acclaimed bestseller Perfume and its follow-up The Pigeon, have been made available in ebook for the first time from today by publisher Hamish Hamilton. Simon Prosser, publishing director of Hamish Hamilton said: "We could not be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Global Publishing Leaders 2015: McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC (MHGE) is a learning science company focused on higher education, professional learning and information tools and services in digital, print, and hybrid formats for the US and international markets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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