Picador wins 14-way auction for 'heart-stopping' debut

Picador has triumphed in a 14-way auction for a "heart-stopping and gripping" debut novel set in the Pre-Raphaelite circle of Victorian London. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Seven Stories wins National Lottery Award

The children's book centre Seven Stories has been voted best education project in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A win for readers? DOJ's proposed measures for Apple would make price-shopping easier

One part of a proposal to enforce the verdict against Apple for allegedly fixing ebook prices would require Amazon and Barnes & Noble 'buy' buttons in the Apple store, allowing consumers to easily compare ebook costs. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dawson wins Joint Consortia Book Agreement

Dawson Books has been named as a key print and ebook supplier for hundreds of universities. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lloyd-Jones wins Found in Translation Award

Polish translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones has been announced as the winner of the 2012 Found in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Was Roberto Bolano a poet at heart? 'The Unknown University' says yes.

A new anthology explores the poems and illuminates the personal struggles of the late writer.As busy as Roberto Bolaño's afterlife has been — he's published 19 books in English since his death in 2003 — his time on Earth was even busier. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shelton and Fickling win Branford Boase

Author Dave Shelton and his editor David Fickling have won the 2013 Branford Boase Award for A... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W&N buys Honeywell debut

Weidenfeld & Nicolson deputy publishing director Arzu Tahsin has bought world rights in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram Debuts Video Embeds, Could Alter Publishing Habits

Instagram today made its three-weeks-old videos feature embeddable, giving publishers and marketers another option to Twitter Vine, YouTube and Vimeo when it comes to making content more multimedia. In other words, anybody can now grab an Instagram video or photo and post it on their own... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sandberg campaign wins PPC/Waterstone's Award

Ebury Publishing senior publicity manager Shona Abhyankar has won the Second Quarterly Publishers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Into the heart of CERN: an underground tour of the Large Hadron Collider (video)

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I've been to see ALICE -- though there was no looking glass to jump through, just a retina scanner and one very long elevator ride down into the earth. I've toured a CMS... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Wins a Round in Book-Scanning Suit

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the approval of a class of authors in a long-running lawsuit against Google Inc. over its efforts to electronically scan millions of books from public and university libraries in order to make them available online. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperVoyager signs debut trilogy

HarperVoyager has signed a deal for a debut trilogy, after fighting off five other publishers in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barber wins Desmond Elliott

Ros Barber's novel in verse The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre) has been named as the winner of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fantasy debut from Hay House

Hay House is set to publish a debut fantasy novel snapped up in a Writers' Workshop... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ALM Rolls Out 14 Dedicated iOS Apps

  ALM has introduced iOS apps for 14 of its publications. This is another step in a series of ambitious digital moves the company has made in the last few months. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macgregor's debut to Sphere

Manpreet Grewal, junior commissioning editor at Sphere, has acquired an "emotional and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prizes: “Maggot Moon” Wins Carnegie, “Black Dog” Takes Kate Greenaway

Sally Gardner has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for "Maggot Moon;" Levi Pinfold won the Kate Greenaway Medal, which awards excellence in illustration, for his picture book "Black Dog." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dyslexic author wins book prize

Sally Gardner, a dyslexic author once branded "unteachable" at school, wins the prestigious Carnegie Medal for her book Maggot Moon. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gardner and Pinfold win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals

Sally Gardner's children's book Maggot Moon has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schools reading contest: ebooks win

Nearly half the titles read by children in a national reading competition were consumed online, according to the charity Booktrust. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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