Novelist’s return to the dystopia of Gilead sold more than 100,000 copies in hardback in its first week on sale in the UKA hardback copy of Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, was sold every four seconds in the UK last week, according to sales figures that show the dystopian novel racing to the top of this week’s book charts.Published at midnight on Monday, The Testaments had sold 103,177 hardbacks by Saturday, according to official book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan. Set 15 years after the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, the novel traces the continued evolution of Atwood’s totalitarian state of Gilead, where women are reduced to their wombs and justification is found in the Bible for every abuse of power. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-17 14:57:57 UTC ]
Nielsen is beta testing new features in its addressable TV platform through a data-integration with Tru Optik, a company recently purchased by TransUnion for a reputed $100 million. The tie-up will see Tru Optik's identity data from more than 80 million homes fuel Nielsen's addressable TV... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-10-14 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate is to publish Matt Haig's latest non-fiction title, The Comfort Book, as a super-lead hardback next summer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-12 19:24:30 UTC ]
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Headline Review will publish Freya Berry's debut novel, The Dictator’s Wife, as a lead hardback launch in 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 22:16:14 UTC ]
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Bookshops are gearing up for another bumper Super Thursday with around 355 new trade hardback books hitting the shelves today (1st October), with some warning of a "creaking" supply chain. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 00:12:40 UTC ]
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The rise of streaming and familiar characters may have cut into the record viewership of four years ago. Fox News led all networks in audience size, Nielsen said. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Among this month’s picks: a shortlisted Booker Prize novel and last year’s winner, Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-28 13:16:37 UTC ]
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Robert Galbraith's Troubled Blood (Sphere) and Brian Masters' Dennis Nielsen biography Killing for Company (Cornerstone) have rocketed to the top of the Amazon Charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-22 15:55:56 UTC ]
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Key Insight: Demand for more accountability and transparency has been loud for years, and cuts to ad budgets during the pandemic have made it louder. Today, global measurement and data analytics firm Nielsen is rolling out a new tool called Nielsen Compass, which matches audience levels across... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-09-17 12:00:07 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph has acquired The Hollow Sea by Annie Kirby, a literary debut about grief, recovery, and identity, set to be a lead hardback for 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 11:44:41 UTC ]
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Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has charted top of the Bookstat e-book top 10 in its second week on sale, rising from third to score an across-formats double, after its hardback claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 21:50:09 UTC ]
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Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top 20 for a second week running, in the same week its hardback claimed a second week atop the UK Official Top 50 chart through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 05:52:35 UTC ]
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Ahead of a Chevalier's bookstore talk with Bradley Whitford, the "Handmaid's Tale" author talks about Ann Dowd, Zoom-worthy tops, dystopia and elections. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-14 14:00:45 UTC ]
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Ijeoma Oluo, Fredrik Backman and Margaret Atwood all have new releases coming up. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-05 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Jamie Oliver's 7 Ways (Michael Joseph) has soared into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 34,241 copies through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 18:56:55 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood is marking the paperback publication of her Booker-winning novel The Testaments (Chatto) with a live streamed event via Fane Online. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-19 15:53:40 UTC ]
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Nielsen ratings were down from 2016, though younger viewers watched online and MSNBC nearly doubled its usual audience. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-08-18 23:35:17 UTC ]
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Since bookshops began reopening in the UK on 15th June, hardback sales have soared against the same period in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-17 11:10:07 UTC ]
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Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun (Atom) rose 11 places to top the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart, as the Twilight reboot sold 62,460 copies in hardback to claim the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-12 02:23:16 UTC ]
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Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun (Atom) has risen over the yardarm to hit the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with 62,460 copies sold in its first three days on sale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-11 12:39:02 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood is to narrate the audiobook her new poetry collection, Dearly, which publishes simultaneously with the print edition on 10th November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 22:25:53 UTC ]
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