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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P D James is one of the writers nominated for the H R F Keating Award, which rewards biographical... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Simon & Schuster has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the autobiography of actor and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Well, this process seems a bit counterintuitive, eh? This morning, Barnes & Noble introduced a new scheme for getting Nook customers to visit the company's retail stores. The promotion nets you one free ebook when you purchase another, but -- and this is where the offer tripped us up a bit... Continue reading at Engadget
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Book sales in Bulgaria were up 10% in 2012, with publishers reporting more than 5,000 books were published the previous year, of which 1,500 were translations. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Simon & Schuster Children's Books has partnered with new company Box of Awesome to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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This month's starred self-published titles include a novel about lesbian nuns in pre-WWII Germany and a memoir from the daughter of 1960s cult leaders, among others. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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David Fickling has achieved two nominations for the Branford Boase Award, a prize given each year... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Total book sales in digital and physical formats grew 4% in 2012 to a total of £3.3bn,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Morgan Baden is responsible for directing social media strategy at Scholastic and engaging teen readers online. Hear her speak at Reaching Readers Book Marketing Conference on May 28 in NYC. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The UK's Publishers Association reveals that spending on digital books rose by 66% in 2012. Continue reading at BBC News
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The BBC's business editor Robert Peston describes how transcribing his late wife's final book helped him cope with grief following her death from lung cancer. Continue reading at BBC News
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A complaint about books by the BBC's Simon Mayo and Mark Easton getting undue prominence on Richard Bacon's 5 live show is not upheld by the BBC Trust. Continue reading at BBC News
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Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl has returned to the summit of the Official UK Top 50 after a week... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Anne Somerset’s biography Queen Anne has won the 2013 Elizabeth Longford Prize for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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World Book Night is launching a monthly book club, offering reading recommendation to its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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“The store is my crack,” says Richard Howorth, co-owner of 34-year-old Square Books in Oxford, Miss., and former president of the American Booksellers Association. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The devout of all faiths adore their books. They mark their most cherished passages and pass them on to the next generation. Can the same ever be said for a digital edition? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Children’s publishers’ much-discussed search for middle-grade hits is starting to hot... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The longlist for the sixth Desmond Elliott Prize, which honours the best in debut fiction, is unveiled, with seven of the 10 novels by women. Continue reading at BBC News
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Apple will have to pay three Chinese authors a total of $118,000 for stocking their books in its App Store without a proper say-so, according to China Daily. A court ruled that it was Apple's job to verify that third-party uploads met copyright requirements and that it had the means to do so... Continue reading at Engadget
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