Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 05/08/2011 - 14:25 Waterstones new owner Alexander Mamut has described the chain as the last significant player in the UK and claimed the booksellers continued existence was important for UK society. The publicity-shy billionaire was interviewed for a piece on Waterstones intranet, which was obtained by The Bookseller. Mamut has only issued two short press statements since he was first linked to buying Waterstones in January. However, the article is low on specifics in terms of his own plans for the business. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Simon Armitage is replacing Dame Carol Ann Duffy as Poet Laureate, the government has announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A Waterstones bookseller has been given a suspended prison sentence after stealing more than £11,000 from the retail chain by tampering with its loyalty cards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hachette parent company Lagardère has reported a 0.9% increase in total like-for-like publishing revenues for the first quarter, but revealed a 3.7% fall in the UK compared to last year's Fire and Fury-fuelled success. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has acquired two books in the Infinity Cycle series by Adam Silvera. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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After tasking former History Press m.d. Tim Davies to lead its expansion in the UK, Westchester Publishing Services has signed up a number of clients from this side of the Atlantic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Poio, an app created to help children learn to read, is launching in the UK in June. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Dialogue Books is taking eight of its authors on a tour of the UK in May and November, kicking off with dates in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Less than 2% of authors and illustrators being published in the UK are British people of colour, new BookTrust research has revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The newly renamed Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award opens today (April 12) for submissions as it announces its new sponsorship regime. The post The UK’s Young Writer Prize Opens for Submissions and Remixes Its Sponsors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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After four years of planning and construction, Hachette’s huge new distribution centre—the most expensive capital project in the firm’s history—was officially opened this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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'Book piracy threatens authors' livelihoods' according to a new appeal from the Society of Authors to the British government to help protect copyright. The post Society of Authors Calls on UK Government to Fight Online Book Piracy appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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HarperCollins Publishers saw record profits before tax of £26.8m for the year ending 30th June 2018, almost double the 2017 figure, partly due to a monster The Lord of the Rings TV deal with Amazon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Boost from rights sale for multi-series adaptation, as eBooks continue to declineThe publisher HarperCollins UK has more than doubled its profits thanks to a hugely lucrative deal with Amazon for the rights to make multiple TV series based on The Lord of the Rings for its global streaming... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Simon & Schuster UK Children’s is celebrating 10 years of Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet’s professional partnership with an anniversary edition of Barry the Fish with Fingers and a board book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Simon & Schuster UK has won a “heated" six-publisher auction to publish SAS expert Billy Billingham’s memoir The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win for "a significant" six-figure sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Managing director says book chain ‘simply not profitable enough’, as Sally Rooney, Val McDermid and other authors write to protestMore than 1,300 writers including Kerry Hudson, David Nicholls, Sally Rooney, Michael Rosen and Val McDermid have backed a campaign for Waterstones booksellers to be... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Picador has bagged a new collection of essays by prize-winning writer and critic Olivia Laing about the importance of art. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf (Hachette Children’s Books) is the winner of this year’s overall £5,000 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, beating off competition from other category winners Tomi Adeyemi, Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Big UK publishers need to lobby councils over the importance of their libraries in a “last ditch stand” to save the service, campaigner Tim Coates has claimed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hachette UK has reported "strong" sales growth in 2018, although parent company Lagardère saw profits fall 9.6%. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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