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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Amazon-owned audiobook retailer Audible is lowering the royalty rates it pays authors who self-publish, and exclusively sell, their audiobooks through the website. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld is to publish a debut psychological thriller by Faber Academy alumnus Renee Knight,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Silkworm focuses on killing of a vindictive novelist who has written character assassinations of his peersThe new novel from JK Rowling, written under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, will feature a novelist who is brutally murdered after writing poison pen-portraits of nearly everyone he... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andy Weir, author of "The Martian" (Crown, 9780804139021), will appear on NPR's "Science Friday" on Friday, February 14. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week in children's apps, we feature one app that allows kids to travel the world with an international adventurer, two apps that explore the world of the dinosaurs, and another that takes users for a ride with a very famous cat. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired Edward Slingerland’s book Trying Not To Try: The Anicent Art of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hutchinson is to publish a broad-ranging book on the ancient world by author and broadcaster... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holiday retail sales dip at B&N, Nook sales plunge and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is the first to offer a scathing critique of President Obama and his administration from within the Cabinet. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired Gone Are the Leaves, a new novel from Glasgow-based author Anne Donovan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate's star-studded Letters Live event (10th December), featuring Neil Gaiman, Benedict... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are in a scramble with Amazon-owned Audible for rights previously handled by the now-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Mail carries a piece today in which it apologises to the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston for having revealed that his late wife had cancer.In 2008, the paper reported on the illness of Peston's wife, Sian Busby, without giving the couple any advance warning or checking whether... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC business editor calls for 'common decency on newspapers' amid criticism of Daily Mail for disclosing details of wife's illnessRobert Peston, the BBC's business editor, has criticised the Daily Mail for revealing that his late wife had cancer without calling her to check the story and before... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon-owned audiobook seller Audible has bought rights to 5,000 of AudioGO's titles.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gillian Anderson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nick Cave, Neil Gaiman and Thandie Newton will be among... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has signed an account of life in a professional kitchen from New York chef Michael... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The chaos brimming at the heart of Robert Stone's finest works surfaces in his latest book set on a New England campus.Robert Stone has long been a big-picture novelist. "Dog Soldiers," which won a 1975 National Book Award, involves a "journalist of sorts" who tries to smuggle three kilos of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has launched Radio Straka today (25th October), featuring the first of five hour-long... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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