On the occasion of its 20th birthday, The Bookseller would like to wish Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos many happy returns. Amazon is a remarkable business led by a remarkable visionary. He may not acknowledge it but Bezos is the natural heir to people such as Sir Allen Lane and Tim Waterstone, who revolutionised the business of reading. Yet unlike Lane or Waterstone, Bezos has done it twice: for that, he is unparalleled. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Francesca Dow praised her authors and illustrators for keeping the “magic of storytelling” alive at the annual Penguin Random House Children’s Summer Party. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London-born writer and theatre-maker Stella Duffy and colouring-book author Johanna Basford have received OBEs and Peter Straus, managing director at Rogers, Coleridge and White, has been honoured with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder and Stoughton is publishing The Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes at the end of June. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author and illustrator Jane Hissey has created a new Old Bear story, Happy Birthday Old Bear, to mark 30 years since the first book in the series was published. It will be published by in September under the Scribblers imprint of The Salariya Book Company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Square Peg has acquired 70s Dinner Party by Anna Pallai, a book that "applauds" all that is wonderfully "downright naff" in retro 70s dining, following a five-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Censorship is when a government or authority prevents someone from speaking or writing. When a business stops producing something because it is faulty, that is product recall (Book pulled over criticism of slavery depiction, 19 January).For those who think A Birthday Cake for George Washington... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author and poet Peter Dickinson OBE died yesterday on 16th December - his 88th birthday - in Winchester, following a brief illness. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Capping the Global Kids Connect conference was a party for PW's just-published Children's Starred Reviews Issue; many local authors and illustrators whose books were featured in that issue were in attendance. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates publisher l’école des loisirs’ 50th birthday with an exhibition on the creation of children's books. The post Exhibition Celebrates l’école des loisirs’ 50th Birthday appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two white Borzoi hounds greeted the hundreds and hundreds of guests ascending the majestic marble rain-slicked steps of the New York Public Library Thursday (1st October) night, come to join chairman and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Alfred A. Knopf. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookstores across the country threw parties to celebrate the release of the latest, never-before-seen Dr. Seuss picture book, 'What Pet Should I Get?' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If Foyle's London Bookstore of the Future failed, it would signal the end, but one year on the store is thriving, with week on week sales hikes of 5-20% . The post Foyle’s “Bookstore of the Future” Celebrates First Birthday appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conflicting messages have been issued on the Green Party's copyright policy, after an uproar among authors over its proposal to limit copyright to just 14 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus Books is to host a digital-led "Day of the Girl" celebration of Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, on the character’s birthday on 30th April. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta Books has acquired a further volume of memoir by former Costa Biography Award winning-author Diana Athill. Editorial director Bella Lacey acquired world rights to the book, titled Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, from Rebecca Carter at Janklow and Nesbit. Athill was a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The two most dynamic topics in news publishing today have to be social media and mobile publishing (comprising mobile Web and mobile-apps). They’re dynamic for different reasons and in different ways. Mobile usage is on a brilliant ascent, ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV networks are gearing up for their flashy upfront presentations, which represent the kick-off to negotiations with advertisers over fall prime-time programming.While some like Discovery are skipping the glitz altogether, others like Turner Broadcasting are combining their network presentations... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Third party sellers accounted for more than 40% of all items sold on Amazon in 2014, the online retailer has revealed. There are currently more than two million vendors on the online retail site, who sold more than two billion items worldwide last year, including books, clothing and other... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Green Party leader Natalie Bennett will join writer Anna Minton and philosophy lecturer Nina Power as guest judges for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2015. The award, run by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB), celebrates non-fiction that is informed by socialist,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The three leading UK political parties have pledged to support the National Literacy Forum’s campaign to improve literacy in the UK. The National Literacy Forum, led by the National Literacy Trust and supported by organisations such as Booktrust and The Reading Agency, yesterday (29th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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