Russell, MacBride and Parks make McIlvanney Prize shortlist

Craig Russell, Stuart MacBride and Alan Parks have joined two debut writers on the McIlvanney Prize shortlist, which honours the best in Scottish crime fiction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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New women’s prize sponsor ‘announced in September’

The new sponsor for the Women's Prize for Fiction, up-to-now sponsored by Orange, will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Is Amazon Making A 10-inch Tablet?

News updates all day from Fast Company.Amazon is getting ready to introduce new tablets, Staples' president of U.S. retail, Demos Parneros, told Reuters Monday.Parneros said the online retailer will introduce five or six new tablet SKUs, or stock-keeping units, including those for a 10-inch... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McKeon wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Irish writer Belinda McKeon was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize yesterday (18th July)... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hill on Forward Best Collection shortlist

The Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill has been shortlisted for the £10,000 Forward... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC signs three by 'inimitable' MacBride

HarperCollins has secured a new contract with bestselling author Stuart MacBride. Sarah Hodgson... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Costa launches story prize

Costa has launched a new award for a single, previously unpublished short story, with the winner... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury's Farrar to make London return

Bloomsbury has appointed Kathleen Farrar to the role of Bloomsbury Group sales and marketing... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bootle wins Wolfson Economics Prize

Roger Bootle has been announced this morning (5th July) as the winner of the £250,000... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Babatunde wins Caine Prize

Nigerian author Rotimi Babatunde has won the 13th Caine Prize for African Writing. The writer was... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Making a Case for HTML5 Investment

HTML5 promises to get publishers closer to digital media’s Promised Land: create once, deliver everywhere. As deployments increase and the standard evolves, media companies are finding it easier to make a business case for HTML5 investment. .. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media Decoder Blog: From Penguin, a Plan to Make Its E-Books Available in New York City Libraries

The publisher, in conjunction with city libraries and 3M, will make its books available in e-format, though they will not be available immediately after release. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Play Books makes an efficient arrival in Germany

Germans, grab your reading glasses, for it's today that Google is announcing the arrival of Play Books -- complete with the ability to purchase native language texts -- in the land of the Kant and Goethe. Yes, those in Deutschland may now buy and read titles from Google Play Books on their... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Briton wins lucrative book prize

British author Jon McGregor wins the 100,000 euro (£81,000) International Impac Dublin Literary Award for his third novel Even the Dogs. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Miller wins Orange Prize

A debut novel has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for the second year running, with US author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pratchett wins Wodehouse Prize

Terry Pratchett has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction after being... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Parks for Harvill Secker

Harvill Secker has acquired a new crime novel by Tim Parks, provisionally titled Painting Death,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BMS shortlists for Best Marketing Campaign

The Book Marketing Society has announced the shortlists for its inaugural Best Marketing Campaign... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bhattacharya wins RSL Ondaatje Prize

Delhi-based novelist Rahul Bhattacharya has won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crimefest award-winners, CWA shortlists announced

Susan Hill, Belinda Bauer and Peter May are among the shortlistees for the Crime Writers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Norman makes first buy for Hutchinson

Hutchinson senior editor Sarah Norman has made her first acquisition since joining the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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