Quarto Group has named former Octopus head Alison Goff its CEO, effective January 2. Goff had been at the Hachette UK division for 21 years before leaving in April 2020. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK is partnering with the National Literacy Trust for the next three years to co-create programmes that help children, young people and adults in disadvantaged communities to develop their literacy skills. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 15:36:05 UTC ]
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Top editors at Hachette have told employees that they’ve learned the lessons of the Capitol siege of Jan. 6: no hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-02-07 22:15:06 UTC ]
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Aurum, an imprint of The Quarto Group, has acquired Hannah Bourne-Taylor’s debut nature memoir, Fledgling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-01 23:39:22 UTC ]
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Hachette UK is launching the Feminist Book Box, a subscription service intended to highlight the best in feminist writing and storytelling across its 10 divisions, including Hodder & Stoughton, Little, Brown and Orion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 01:29:39 UTC ]
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'Brian Napack helms the AAP board, saying, 'A vibrant, independent publishing industry plays an essential role in our democracy.' The post AAP Officers: Wiley CEO Brian Napack Is Chair, Hachette CEO Pietsch is Vice-Chair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-27 23:29:51 UTC ]
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Hachette UK has released its latest gender pay gap report, revealing that the mean gender pay gap for Hachette UK Ltd dropped by four percentage points from 25.9% in 2019 to 21.9% in 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 18:43:45 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has secured the rights to My Period: Find Your Flow and Feel Period Positive!, the "one-stop positive guide to getting your period" from author and journalist Milli Hill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 11:34:50 UTC ]
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The Quarto Group's eco-imprint Ivy Kids will publish When We Went Wild, the first children's book from Isabella Tree, conservationist and author of Wilding (Picador, 2018). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-24 15:30:24 UTC ]
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Hachette UK imprint Wren & Rook is releasing a photo book from singer and songwriter Billie Eilish. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 16:40:47 UTC ]
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Hachette UK's parent company Lagardère has taken a €465m government-backed loan to help it cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-04 09:13:16 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group is partnering with Commonword, the largest writing development organisation based in Manchester, in a bid to find more northern Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers currently under-represented in publishing, particularly in picture book writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-28 15:57:06 UTC ]
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Children’s author Zanib Mian, Waterstones children’s category specialist Georgina Mitchell, literary agent Hellie Ogden and Hachette Children’s Group’s senior commissioning editor Tig Wallace are to judge the Hachette Children’s Novel Award in 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-18 18:51:25 UTC ]
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Hachette UK is restructuring its contracts department under the management of Anniina Vuori, who is newly promoted to director, while two divisional directors have left the business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 16:36:04 UTC ]
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Author’s comments ‘crossed a line with regard to race and religion’, says Little, Brown The journalist Julie Burchill has had a book contract cancelled after her publisher said she “crossed a line” with her Islamophobic comments on Twitter.Burchill’s publisher, the Hachette imprint Little,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-15 16:27:56 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two non-fiction picture books and two picture books by debut author and illustrator Ellan Rankin, winner of the 2020 Carmelite Picture Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 20:16:52 UTC ]
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Hachette UK c.e.o. David Shelley has warned 2021 could be a "tougher" year for the industry than 2020, in an interview with The Bookseller's editor Philip Jones at FutureBook 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 14:38:48 UTC ]
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The Quarto Group's Frances Lincoln Children’s Books imprint has added US vice-president-elect Kamala Harris to its Little People, Big Dreams list for 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-15 14:59:22 UTC ]
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Katie Bond has made her first three acquisitions for The Quarto Group's Aurum imprint, which she joined as publisher last July. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 18:09:58 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has pre-empted a "magical" middle-grade fantasy series from debut author Andy Sagar in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 18:53:49 UTC ]
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Hachette UK has reported a “stellar” third quarter with year-on-year growth of 15.6% and record download revenue for e-books and audio. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 11:50:37 UTC ]
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