'The Wake,' by Paul Kingsnorth was reportedly published by the website Unbound, which funds the publishing of books through donations. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 15/11/2011 - 08:15 Quadrille has made a series of promotions and appointments within its sales teams, with Melanie Gray stepping up to become UK sales director, joining the board at the independent publisher. The moves follow Faber's launch... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 14/11/2011 - 15:07 Piccadilly Press has bought a time-travelling young adult romance story, which will be a lead title for autumn 2012. Managing director Brenda Gardner bought world rights to two books in the Timedance series from Bob Markel. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Writing a how-to book in a static medium like paper about something as dynamic as Facebook is challenging at best and at worst...well...idiocy. Continue reading at PC World
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Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:50 Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell has won the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, beating Orange Prize-winner Téa Obreht. Caldwell's novel The Meeting Point (Faber) won over Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, as well as titles from Annabel Pitcher,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:40 Debut novelist Alice LaPLante has won the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize for her tale of a "brilliant mind in terminal decline". Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) beat Philip Roth's Nemesis as well as titles by Sarah Manguso, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ann... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Tue, 08/11/2011 - 13:40 A book about feline pirates has claimed the bounty of an award at this years Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently and illustrated by Jim Field (Macmillan Childrens Books) was awarded the prize for children aged six and under at todays... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 17:10 Emma Donoghue, Lionel Shriver and China Miéville are among the authors longlisted for the 2012 International Impac Dublin Literary Award, which saw 147 titles nominated by libraries around the world. With 20 nominations, Donoghues Room (Picador) was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 14:49 The Literature Prize is to be awarded in the spring of each year, with founder Andrew Kidd saying it will take place for the first time in 2012 if the necessary funding is secured by the end of this year. Kidd said the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 08:30 Waterstone's is set to publish a print and ebook anthology to celebrate the shortlist for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. The high street bookseller will publish the titles on 4th March next year, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 08:45 Academic Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his "fascinating" biography of 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle. Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale) was awarded the £2,000 prize and a specially commissioned medal at a special dinner... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 25/10/2011 - 15:51 Terry Pratchett's Snuff (Doubleday) was narrowly the bestselling book in the UK last week, outselling Martina Cole's 18th novel, The Faithless (Headline), by just 768 copies. Snuff, which last week became the fastest-selling... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 25/10/2011 - 08:30 The six shortlisted books competing to win 2012s $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature have been unveiled. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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In his closing remarks, Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos said that 2011 was a strong year for startups at the fair. Among those startups, perhaps none had a better reception than Small Demons, in Los Angeles. We couldnt have asked for a better first Frankfurt Book Fair, Small Demons... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 21/10/2011 - 10:31 William Heinemann has bought a début novel by Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera about three generations of the same family and their Wolverhampton corner shop. Publisher Jason Arthur bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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In the digital sector, some publishers are still waiting for online advertising to become as profitable as its print counterpart once was. Many complain digital ad offerings are not comparable to the quality in print; others say the infrequency and size of advertising units may be causing the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 20/10/2011 - 11:19 The Poetry Book Society has obtained three-year sponsorship for the prestigious T S Eliot Prize from private investment management firm Aurum Funds. There had been concern for the prize, which goes to new collections of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 14:45 Sarah Winmans debut When God Was a Rabbit (Headline Review) has won the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festivals Newton First Book Award. The award encourages attendees of the festival to vote for their favourite of the 47... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 15:02 Random House is now reprinting 125,000 copies of Jonathan Cape's Booker-winning The Sense of An Ending, signing off a further 50,000 copies in addition to the initial 75,000 copy reprint. Vintage sales director Tom... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Releasing a book on one of the worlds largest publishing marketplaces could help your company. Here's a quick guide to the basics of self-publishing. Continue reading at PC World
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 19/10/2011 - 09:34 The thrice-denied Julian Barnes has been lauded in the press for finally winning the Man Booker prize with his The Sense of an Ending. The Guardian warmly welcomed the decision. Claire Armistead said: "To those who believe the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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