Macmillan’s UK and US divisions both won best picture book awards today (19th December) at the Chen Bochui International Children’s Awards in Shanghai, China. The awards took place on the eve of the Shanghai Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) 2014. It is the first year publishers outside China have been eligible for the prize. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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This week, Jon Ronson's fascinating exploration of shaming, Pulitzer-winner Tracy K. Smith's wonderful memoir, and how to clone a mammoth. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Publishers offered a measured response to news that the Lifeway Christian Stores chain will no longer carry "heaven tourism" books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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E-books’ market share of new-book sales increased slightly in 2014 over 2013, while the share of all book sales made through online retailers and bookstore chains dipped in the same period. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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La Librería is the first Spanish-language bookstore for children in Los Angeles County, home to 4.9 million Hispanics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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'We are creating a new thing for a new generation of readers...this is the future,' says Benjamin Alfonsi of Metabook's new ultra-enhanced ebooks. The post Is Metabook the Next Evolution of the Book? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Marketing campaigns for books by James Patterson, David O’Doherty and Chris Judge, and Helen Walsh were named as the winners of the Best Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards today (25th March). The Book Marketing Society (BMS), which is now part of Nielsen Book, gave its annual awards at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Print book sales showed "continuing resilience" in 2014, with overall spending on print and digital titles increasing across the year. Meanwhile, online book buying overtook in-store book buying for the first time last year. In 2014, sales of print and ebooks stood at £2.2bn, up 4% from the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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ITV daytime chat show Loose Women is today (March 24th) launching a new book club, with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) picked as the first title. The book club, called Loose Books, will see a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A “scratch and sniff” front cover for The Twits and more details about Jacqueline Wilson’s reworking of What Katy Did Next were some of the highlights of a Penguin Random House Children’s showcase, held yesterday (25th March) at Foyles Charing Cross. The event was the first media... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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New books tell the stories of Christian activists who are working at home and abroad to meet the needs of the hungry, the endangered, the abandoned, and the exploited. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Rachel Held Evans offers astute reflections on faith; biologist Jerry Coyne argues that science has made religion obsolete. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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I was surprised to discover how satisfying a two-person phone-text book club could be. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The cherished French children’s book author and editor of hundreds of books Grégoire Solotareff offers his tips for creating books fore very young readers. The post Keys to Writing Books for Very Young Readers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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New York indie press McPherson & Company is organizing nine concurrent author readings throughout the country, on May 23, to promote its forthcoming Father's Day-themed essay collection, 'Every Father’s Daughter.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Akhil Sharma has won the 2015 Folio Prize for Fiction for his novel Family Life (Faber & Faber). The prize, now in its second year, was awarded at a ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London this evening (23rd March). The Folio Prize aims to recognise and celebrate the best... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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In this week's column, the concentration camp memoir from a French actress goes global; an Iranian punk rocker's posthumous novel draws buzz; and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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An Alabama family says Lee was working on another book based on true crime cases, while the state of Alabama says it recently closed an investigation about the author. Lee is publishing a new book, 'Go Set a Watchman,' later this year. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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The auction, which will be held May 26, supports ABFE’s defense of the free speech rights of kids. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The UK is leading the nominations in the shortlists for the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2015, followed by the US and China. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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To mark the opening of the 'Insurgent' film, HarperCollins and Twitter are partnering to offer fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy a discounted hardcover of the 'Insurgent' movie tie-in edition via Twitter links. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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