Morrisons has become a member of the Booksellers Association (BA), The Bookseller can reveal. The retailer joins fellow supermarket chains Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Asda in being a member of the trade body. The move reflects Morrisons’ growing commitment to books over the last two years, during which time it has stocked more titles and presented more book promotions front of store. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rosamund de la Hey, owner and founder of The Mainstreet Trading Company, has been made president of the Booksellers Association. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The ceremony, which honored authors such as Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates, was the first one in which PEN American announced the winners live. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate is to publish Insanely Gifted by Jamie Catto, former member of electronica band Faithless. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer and critic Blake Morrison is to chair this year’s Goldsmiths Prize – the £10,000 award created by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the New Statesman, to reward “boldly original fiction”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tim Godfray, chief executive of The Booksellers Association, has written to the foreign secretary, asking that the government "thoroughly investigates all the facts" relating to the disappearances of missing Hong Kong booksellers, who include British passport-holder Lee Bo. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) has become a member of the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS), meaning IPG members will now have a stronger voice in the area of collective licensing and the management of rights. The IPG will be the first new member to join the society since it was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sydney Davies, the Booksellers Association’s head of trade and industry, is retiring after 26 years. The BA has appointed Giles Clifton, a non-practising barrister, to the new role of head of corporate affairs following his departure. Clifton will begin in October and focus on lobbying for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hires this year by MediaMath, one of the few large independent ad tech companies that hasn't gone public or sold, suggest that it's gearing up for change, beit an initial public offering or more aggressive growth as a still-private player.Most recently, Rich Schmaeling joined MediaMath this... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard Osman, writer and presenter of BBC One quiz show “Pointless”, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Booksellers Association Conference. Held at Warwick University on 21st– 22nd September 2015 and sponsored by Gardners, this year’s conference will examine how bookshops are perceived... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Satellite engineer Trevor Gibbon has been found guilty of the murder of former children's publisher Alison Morrison. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alison Morrison, a former children's publisher and chair of Book Trust’s board of trustees, died in a ferocious attack by her neighbour after a dispute over noise from her son's skateboard, the Old Bailey has heard. Neighbour Trevor Gibbon is on trial for the murder of Morrison, who was killed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why the News Corporation chair should fund his former journalist’s legal costsI know it isn’t fashionable to champion former staff members of the News of the World. It was the newspaper where phone hacking took place and the resulting scandal was the reason that Rupert Murdoch closed it down.But... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK Booksellers Association has taken a lead role in pressing for a regulatory investigation into Amazon, The Bookseller can reveal. The association submitted a dossier to the Competition and Markets Authority last November about Amazon’s “domination” of the UK market, which it believes paved... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sabia Morrison is joining the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) team as events and membership administrator. The ALPSP is the international trade body that supports and represents not-for-profit organisations and institutions that publish scholarly and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has welcomed the launch of a “radical” review of the business rates system in the UK. The government revealed today (16th March) that the review had begun and would report back in time for the 2016 budget. "The time has come for a radical review of this important... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Chronicles of Shannara' will be based on the book series by fantasy writer Terry Brooks. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dark Horse has provided an exclusive first look at the new work by the acclaimed creators of Daytripper. 'Two Brothers' adapts Milton Hatoum's 'Dois Irmãos'—an intense look at family relations viewed through the experience of twin brothers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alison Morrison, nee Brathwaite, who worked in book publishing until a move to Which? in 2007, has died. Morrison, 45, was reportedly attacked in a street in Harrow yesterday (18th December), dying later in hospital. Morrison worked as promotions co-ordinator at Penguin from 1994 to 1999, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has called for the scrapping of business rates altogether for small businesses in a meeting in the House of Commons. Tim Godfray, c.e.o of The Booksellers Association, said in a speech to the all-party parliamentary small shops group that The BA and the British... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toni Morrison’s new novel God Help the Child will be published by Chatto & Windus in April next year. The book is described as “spare and unsparing” and is “about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult”. It follows a woman called Bride, “whose stunning... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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