Pullman illustrator Chris Wormell signs debut children's deal

David Fickling Books is to publish the first children’s novel by Chris Wormell, the illustator of the covers for Philip Pullman's La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust – Volume One. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Three debuts for Hot Key

Hot Key Books has acquired three debuts. Natalie Whipple's Transparent follows an invisible... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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More Warburton to Hodder Children's Books

Hodder Children's Books has acquired a new series by The Winter Trilogy author Ruth Warburton... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Wood signs more Donald for Sphere

Ed Wood, senior editor at Sphere, has signed three more books by Outlaw author Angus Donald, in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Hot deal for Myriad

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Amazon debuts Whispercast service, lets organizations manage Kindles and Kindle content

Individual Kindle users already have Whispernet, and Amazon has now announced another free service designed to make Kindles easier to manage for large organizations. Dubbed Whispercast, the service will let schools, businesses and other groups both distribute and manage the Kindles themselves... Continue reading at Engadget

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Hodder Breathes in new debut

Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a debut thriller set in west London in 1952, with publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Thalia parent to sell in €1.5bn deal

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New Alderson plus film deal for S&S

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Mitchell Beazley signs Cowell food book

Mitchell Beazley is joining forces with Simon Cowell for a book tying in to his production... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Investing in Future Readers: German Children Get Their Own Newspaper

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Bloomsbury signs novel about Tourette's

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Sports Illustrated Relaunches Mobile Site

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‘Casual Vacancy’ and the State of Big (Print) Debuts

After months of hype, the first adult novel from J.K. Rowling debuted with the third biggest print opening of 2012. At outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, The Casual Vacancy sold 156,679 copies in its first week—enough to place it behind only No Easy Day by Mark Owen (254,046 copies) and Fifty... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Google, Association of American Publishers strike deal over book digitization

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Penguin has announced a deal for a first book by British model and TV presenter, Alexa Chung. A... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Pan Mac gets Obsessed after six-figure deal

Pan Macmillan has signed a non-fiction title about the nature of obsession for a significant six-... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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