HarperCollins claimed this year’s prestigious Publisher of the Year accolade at the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ann Cleeves, Mark Billingham and Peter James [pictured] are among the six authors shortlisted for the CWA 2015 Dagger in the Library Award. The award, sponsored by Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good Books, honours an author’s complete body of work. Also shortlisted are... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has today launched a fan artwork competition for Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann), asking people to create works inspired by the only line released from the new book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The young writer of a real-life The Fault in Our Stars isn't alive to see her book make the finals of the country's top awards â but her parents could not be prouder. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books illuminating the lives of gay sportsmen have been honoured at the Cross British Sports Book Awards, with Gareth Thomas' Proud and a biography of John Curry both picking up prizes. Proud, the memoir of Welsh rugby international Gareth Thomas [pictured], published by Ebury, was named... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editor & Publisher Magazine has announced its call for entries for the 2015 EPPY™ Awards, honoring the best in digital media. Now in its 20th year, this international contest has broadened its scope to keep up with the ever-changing Int ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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La Casa Azul in East Harlem celebrates its third birthday this weekend. Burry’s Books in Hartsville, S.C., will stay open afterall. And World Eye in Greenfield, Mass., has put its financial troubles behind it. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers across the country will be receiving flagons of cider from author Ben Aaronovitch as a thank you gift. More than 1,000 flagons of Weston’s Old Rosie cider will be delivered to 384 bookshops – both Waterstones and independents – between 8th June and 19th June. Larger shops will... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers have expressed mixed views over the new cover look for Jilly Cooper’s Riders (Corgi), which Transworld has reissued to celebrate the book’s 30th birthday. Like the previous cover, the new one shows a woman from the waist down wearing a pair of white jodhpurs. The cover still... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books written by women or men from the perspective of a female character are less likely to win major literary awards than books written from a male perspective or about men, research by author Nicola Griffith has found. Griffith analysed the last 15 years of winners for six fiction awards –... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee to be released in July, 55 years after publication of Pulitzer Prize winning bookHarper Lee’s eagerly anticipated To Kill a Mockingbird sequel, Go Set a Watchman, has become the most pre-ordered book in publisher Harper Collins’ history.Robert Thomson, chief... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award is looking for new sponsorship after the trust fund established to back to prize ran dry last year. The Irish Times has reported that for the first time in its 20-year history, the prize will be entirely publically funded by Dublin City... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book won three awards at the US Audie Awards, which recognise achievements in audiobooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Citing 48 new regular member companies in the last year, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) leadership is declaring an end to a six-year crisis in US independent bookshops. At its annual meeting at BookExpo America in New York City on Thursday (28th May), c.e.o Oren J Teicher told the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown, Mitchell Beazley and Saltyard Books were winners at this year’s Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The awards will identify and celebrate talented young members of the U.S. publishing community, and bring recognition to them on a global stage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In his address to ABA members, CEO Oren Teicher said "I remain optimistic and confident that the best days of independent bookselling are ahead." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 24th annual Religious Booksellers Trade Exhibit for Catholic stores saw more exhibitor attrition, but in a smaller space the show felt busier, and the mood was upbeat. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While mobs of booksellers and others thronged BEA booths Thursday afternoon, about 100 booksellers focused their attention on representatives from four indies— Bookpeople, Literati, Parnassus Books, and Tattered Cover—who have led the way in integrating social media into their stores' business... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mandela: An Audio History won the award for Audiobook of the Year, and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book took home the prize for Distinguished Achievement in Production Thursday night at the 20th annual Audie Awards Gala in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winners of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award, Can Xue for fiction and Rocío Cerón for poetry, were announced at BookExpo America this year. The post Winners of 2015 Best Translated Book Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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