The shortlist for the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award for new food writers has been announced, recognising forthcoming debuts from Chatto & Windus, Profile Books and Bloomsbury. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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A 60-day study conducted by the Association of National Advertisers and ad fraud detection company White Ops came to a conclusion likely to unsettle many digital ad buyers: purchasing ads from premium publishers does not protect marketers from fraud."Advertisers who assume that traffic to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple’s iBooks store in the UK has released its "Best of 2014" list showing that titles with film tie-ins led to the highest sales on the platform among paid-for titles. In fiction, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin) sold the most units on the UK iBooks platform in 2014, followed by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mary Costello’s debut novel Academy Street (Canongate) has been voted the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for 2014. The book was chosen via public vote from the list of category winners announced at the recent Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ten titles are in the running for The Bookseller's inaugural YA Book Prize, with two Hot Key books featuring on the shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over 5,600 hotels, libraries, cafés and cruise lines are now sponsoring PressReader HotSpots in their locations, offering guests 3,500 newspapers and magazines. To find the nearest PressReader HotSpot, please visit pressreader.com ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booker winner Ben Okri has won the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Age of Magic (Head of Zeus). Okri did not attend the ceremony held last night (3rd December) at the In & Out Club in London, but Laura Palmer, editorial director of Head of Zeus, accepted the prize on his... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book about animals illustrated with infographics has won the 2014 Educational Writers’ Award. The £2,000 prize was presented to Jon Richards and Ed Simkins for The World in Infographics: Animal Kingdom (Wayland) by Tristram Hunt, shadow secretary of state for education, at a ceremony... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nominations for the second annual London Book Fair's International Excellence Awards, which are offered in 13 categories, are now open. The post International Awards for a Global Book Industry appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book exploring digital life has won the top prize at the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction. Laurence Scott was awarded with the £10,000 prize for his book The Four Dimensional Human, to be published by William Heinemann in summer 2015, at John Murray's house in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jhumpa Lahiri and Kamila Shamsie are among five writers shortlisted for the $50,000 (£31,829) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Colin Barrett has won the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award for his short story collection Young Skins (Jonathan Cape). It is the third prize to go to the book, which also took the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author Colin Barrett wins the Guardian First Book Award for his debut collection of short stories, Young Skins. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams’ Awful Auntie (HarperCollins Children’s) has been named Children’s Book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards, making it the third time in a row the author has won the honour. The awards, presented today (26th November) at a ceremony at the Foreign Office in London... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Thames and Hudson title about medical illustration has been crowned Book of the Year at this year’s British Book Design and Production Awards. Richard Barnett’s The Sick Rose won the top honour, as well as being named winner in the Exhibition Catalogues category. Phaidon Press also received... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Atkinson, Nathan Filer and J K Rowling are among the 19 British authors competing for the €100,000 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The longlist for the prize, now in its 20th year and given annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, features titles... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Remote ebook lending in libraries leads to a "significant" increase in borrowing, but not to an increase in book buying, according to interim trends noted at the six-month stage of a year-long pilot project. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press publishing director Stuart Proffitt has won the London Library Life in Literature Award for his contribution to publishing, with the judges deeming him "the pre-eminent editor of non-fiction working in the UK today." The £10,000 prize is given each year by the London Library,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 65th annual National Book Awards were held on November 19 at Cipriani Wall Street, in a ceremony emceed by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 65th National Book Awards took place in frigid New York last night (19th November), but the literary establishment donned finery and dinner jackets to the Wall Street venue undaunted by the cold. Perseus c.e.o. David Steinberger noted that this was “the largest crowd” he had addressed in his... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jacqueline Woodson won the young people's literature prize for her book 'Brown Girl Dreaming,' while Louise Glück was the recipient of the poetry award for her work 'Faithful and Virtuous Night.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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