Harvill Secker has won a debut novel by K-Ming Chang in a "heated" five-way auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 06:51:52 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a new adventure series in a joint acquisition with US sister company,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker has acquired a memoir about murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After months of hype, the first adult novel from J.K. Rowling debuted with the third biggest print opening of 2012. At outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, The Casual Vacancy sold 156,679 copies in its first week—enough to place it behind only No Easy Day by Mark Owen (254,046 copies) and Fifty... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A first novel from Little, Brown¹s editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson is among the hot deals... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simply Books of Bramhall in Cheshire has been judged Independent Retailer of the Year at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers Aminatta Forna, Kamila Shamsie, Paul Theroux and Henning Mankell have given support to a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker has acquired the debut novel by journalist Elif Batuman, following a "highly... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced an agreement that marks the end of nearly seven years of litigation, kicked off in 2005, when five members of the organization filed an infringement suit against the online giant. The deal helps bring digitized books and... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adam Lancaster has been named the SLA School Librarian of the Year 2012, receiving the award this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Children's has snapped up rights to The Breathing series by self-published author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking is set to publish the debut novel from Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government is also pressuring Chinese publishers to stop translating and publishing Japanese content as tension increases between the two countries. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker has pre-empted the first two books in a new series from Eva Dolan, who was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this year’s publishing pow-wow in Germany: John Banville channels Raymond Chandler; Daniel Woodrell explores a 1929 American bombing; Michael Pollan gets elemental; Elif Batuman tries fiction; and Lionel Shriver goes to Iowa. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When a man routinely hailed as one of America’s “greatest living writers” publishes a new novel, one hardly expects it to draw reviews posing questions along the lines of “Can he do it? Can he actually pull it off?” Because when you’re Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner, the act of writing a... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joining a growing list of services that offer real-time video chat capabilities, Shindig is a recently launched platform that authors and publishers can use to replicate the book tour experience online. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just hours ahead of Amazon's debut of a new Kindle tablet on Thursday, Kobo, the ebook company that can be thought of as "Canada's Kindle" debuted a new color Android tablet called the Kobo Arc. Kobo Arc is the company's second Android tablet, following up on the Kobo Vox which debuted around... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot on the heels of purchasing Blinkbox and Peter Gabriel's WE7, Tesco has purchased Andy McNab's ebook publishers, Mobcast. It seems clear that the British supermarket heavyweight is currently engaged in a phony war with rival Sainsburys, which snapped up Rovi, Global Media Vault and Anobii for... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author James Herbert is the latest to have an ebook offered for 20p on Amazon and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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American science fiction writer Harry Harrison, best known for The Stainless Steel Rat and the book that inspired Charlton Heston's classic film Soylent Green, has died aged 87. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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