Penguin Platform will target teen audience

Penguin Random House UK is hoping to engage with 16-19 year-olds with targeted teen content across social media platforms. The publisher, which closed its online teen book community Spinebreakers last September, will now produce targeted content for branded spaces on Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram through an initiative it is calling Penguin Platform. Content will include author interviews, writing advice, playlists and book recommendations, and is launching this week with interviews with Sally Green and Owen Jones. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Publishing must 'radically reimagine' its audience, major diversity study says

The UK's first academic study on diversity in trade publishing and fiction has called for the industry to “radically reimagine” its audience and value readers outside the white middle classes. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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For Inc., It’s Not About Platform or Product, It’s About Purpose

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‘No reader is too young to start’: anti-racist books for all children and teens

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Penguin Classics boldly goes into science fiction

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