Following a "hotly-contested" 13-way auction, Canongate and Audible have acquired two "major" books - a memoir and a first novel - from comedian and actor Robert Webb. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Your next cruise down the highway may be more enjoyable if you have Amazon’s Audible app and Android Auto.The audiobook app now works with Google’s car interface so you can more easily fire up a book and use the Android Auto interface to control playback. The update allows you to fine tune... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2016-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The slumping stock market has led Scholastic to cancel its “Dutch auction” in which it planned to buy up to $200 million of its common stock from shareholders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired a debut thriller, The Couple Next Door, in a "hotly contested" auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A firestorm over a banned book about an Israeli-Arab love story, Pope Francis’s new book on mercy, and a reading list of books by Muslim authors are some of the hottest topics in religion publishing today. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended December 13, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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He was supposed to become a doctor—at least according to his physician father—but Robert Baensch took a different turn, toward publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Fry will voice two classic detective stories exclusively for Audible. Fry, who voiced all seven of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, will voice The Coin of Dionysius and The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah, which features the blind detective Max Carrados who was first... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre has acquired Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan - "a unique exploration of love, loneliness and reconciliation" - following a "fierce" six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate has signed My Absolute Darling, a debut novel from American author Gabriel Tallent, after an eight-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Robert Hale Ltd is to “withdraw from publishing” after nearly 80 years, with 10 people made redundant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired two new books by National Geographic explorer Lucy Cooke. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Starting today, Audible is offering digital audiobook editions of all the titles in the Harry Potter series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week marked the grand opening of a new store in Michigan, with two other stores--in Washington and Florida--prepping to open new locations before the end of the month. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neal Price is joining Canongate as sales director, following 11 years as sales director for Faber. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired the Dales Detective series by Julia Chapman following a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orbit UK is publishing a thriller about the untimely demise of a social media star. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired a new non-fiction title on "ecstatic experience", The Art of Losing Control, by writer and philosopher Jules Evans. In The Art of Losing Control, Evans argues that there are ways of letting down our guard and opening ourselves to "ecstatic experiences". The book balances... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Publishing's sales grew 13% in the first half of the year, boosted by a particularly strong performance from the children’s and educational department. For the six months ending 31st August 2015, turnover totalled £52.7m, 13% higher than £46.6m for the same period in 2014. Adjusted... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible has commissioned a dramatization of Carmilla, a 19th century gothic vampire novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, starring David Tennant and Rose Leslie. The story, first published in 1872, pre-dates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over two decades. The story is about 18-year old Laura (played by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A watercolor of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet created by illustrator E.H. Shepard is being auctioned this week. Shepard illustrated many classic children's books, including A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh," "When We Were Very Young," "Now We Are Six" and "The House at Pooh Corner." Shepard drew Pooh... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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