Waterstones in Ireland made a loss after tax of €12.9m up to April last year, as sales... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Waterstones managing director James Daunt has moved to dismiss any suggestion that a Russian bank collapse will impact on the future ownership of the retail chain, saying that the situation is of “no interest or concern” to the business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones’ future ownership is said to be in doubt after the collapse of Russia's biggest private bank Otkritie, of which the chain’s owner Alexander Mamut was a major shareholder. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print and ebook sales are on the rise, while audiobook sales are seeing rapid growth despite being largely untapped by most publishers, according to early results from The Bookseller’s Digital Census, the annual tracker of the digital transformation run annually ahead of the FutureBook Conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams will be presented with the ‘International Recognition Award’ at this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards ceremony as the prize announces a search for a new sponsor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Silvertail is to publish Yes, the debut novel about relationships by NHS worker Anne Patterson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Britain’s creative industries are facing a "potentially catastrophic" loss of talent and skills following Brexit, the Creative Industries Federation has warned, arguing that the end of freedom of movement poses a "huge risk" to the sector. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman has revealed ill health delayed his writing of the much-anticipated La Belle Sauvage, released today (Thursday 19th October). He also said The Book of Dust trilogy was “darker” than His Dark Materials because he feels “more cynical and closer to despair” than he did 22 years ago. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“I just really wish we knew our fate,” wrote Carole Meredith in a recent Facebook post as she waited out her evacuation from her winery and home on Mt. Veeder. Meredith, of Lagier Meredith vineyard in the Napa Valley, is one of the many affected by the multiple wildfires burning in Northern... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has revealed that the "extraordinary" first week sales of Origin by Dan Brown include more than 14,000 audio downloads. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribe has pre-empted a memoir about mourning and mushrooms by Long Litt Woon that was "the talk of the fair" at this autumn's Gothenburg Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some of this year's big winners included HBR, Baltimore Magazine and AARP. The post 2017 Eddie and Ozzie Award Winners Revealed appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has pre-empted rights to a book by former publishers Rose Davidson and Arzu Tahsin, entitled Crafty Therapy: A Guide to Making and Mending Yourself. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the wake of Hugh Hefner’s death, the magazine’s former fiction editor shares how she got everyone from Donna Tartt to Margaret Atwood to write for herI am not the only woman who worked at Playboy and kept her clothes on. When I was hired as literary editor in 2005, Hugh Hefner’s basic recipe... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury has pre-empted a new psychology book about "the conversations we have with ourselves" called Chatter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams’ next children’s book will be called Bad Dad, a “heart-warming rags to riches story” about a boy who tries to break his dad out of prison. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxfam and Moomin Characters Ltd are launching a campaign around short story "The Invisible Child", by Moomin creator Tove Jansson, to help women and girls around the world to fight inequality and escape poverty. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze has pre-empted rights to publish the debut of Hank Green, brother of John Green, as a "superlead title" in autumn 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jennifer Donnelly's 'Stepsister,' which is told from the vantage point of one of the "wicked" stepsisters in 'Cinderella,' sold to Scholastic after a nine-bidder auction. It went for a sum rumored to be in the mid-to-high six-figure range, and a film deal is imminent. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How To Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell tours the South Downs which inspired her new book series. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent’s Tail has acquired Melmoth, the new novel from Sarah Perry, author of 2016 British Book Awards' Book of the Year The Essex Serpent (Serpent's Tail). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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