People want stories and that means cultivating a publishing ecosystem where big and small can flourishThis week both the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the Department of Justice in the US announced investigations into the planned $2.2bn acquisition of the publisher Simon & Schuster by Bertelsmann, which already owns Penguin Random House. The merger, if allowed, would see Bertelsmann have almost one-third of English-language book sales. The move follows a year when a population cocooned at home, reaching for comfort reading, inflated the profits of big publishers. Bloomsbury and Pan Macmillan recently announced that they would be returning furlough payments; HarperCollins did not take them.Many of the UK’s smaller publishers fared rather differently: a Bookseller survey last summer found 60% feared they would cease to exist by autumn. Indies tend not to have the backlists full of household names that, say, a Penguin has; they depend far more on serendipity, on a customer wandering into a shop intending to buy one thing but coming out with something else as well. This happens far less with online shopping; at least one publisher lost up to 90% in sales. Some also found it difficult to qualify for furlough. They took to social media to announce their plight, or to try new selling tactics; some crowdfunded; some received emergency Arts Council England cash. Many were dragged back from the brink, for which we should be grateful. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Elizabeth Gabler, the executive behind hit movies like “The Devil Wears Prada,” will run a venture financed by Sony Pictures and HarperCollins Publishers. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-07-15 22:19:51 UTC ]
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HarperCollins' Brian Murray says the new deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment responds to today's changes in 'the business of storytelling.' The post HarperCollins and Sony Pictures Entertainment in Major Elizabeth Gabler Partnership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-15 20:00:26 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury imprint Absolute will publish Lose Weight & Get Fit by Tom Kerridge, featuring 100 high-flavour recipes for dieting and fitness in December. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 01:27:43 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has acquired a book on headaches, Splitting, by neuroscientist Amanda Ellison. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-12 10:41:03 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has signed a deal with Marcus Wareing for Marcus Everyday, the publisher’s third book with the celebrity chef and restaurateur. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-12 07:06:27 UTC ]
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The most prolific man in letters, James Patterson, has bestowed upon 20 UK booksellers the Young Bookseller Special Achievement Award in recognition of their “talent and extraordinary contribution to the bookselling industry.” Bestselling author/philanthropist Patterson (whose has sold somewhere... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-11 16:06:23 UTC ]
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James Patterson has awarded 20 booksellers the Young Bookseller Special Achievement Award, in recognition of their "outstanding" work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 19:15:12 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has signed a new four-book deal with David Baddiel, securing the middle-grade children's author until 2023. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 07:40:32 UTC ]
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Condé Nast Pulls Investment From FarFetch [caption id="attachment_161701" align="alignright" width="150"] José Neves[/caption] Condé Nast pulled its nearly $300 million investment in the London-based luxury fashion retail marketplace FarFetch, following concerns about the management of the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-07-09 18:18:07 UTC ]
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A new class of 40 'Rising Stars' in the UK publishing industry is named by The Bookseller, in association with sponsor Frankfurter Buchmesse. The post The Bookseller Names 2019 Rising Stars; Pan Mac’s Laura Ricchetti is the ‘Shooting Star’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-09 05:35:30 UTC ]
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HarperCollins will publish the debut of Elle UK deputy editor Kenya Hunt entitled GIRL, billed as a "celebration of womanhood, blackness and the possibilities that both contain". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 18:16:56 UTC ]
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HarperCollins UK c.e.o. Charlie Redmayne celebrated Judith Kerr and paid tribute to Bob Bradford at the publisher's annual summer party last night. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 08:35:24 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s Books will this autumn publish a Michael Morpurgo book about a refugee from Afghanistan, inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 19:34:21 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired three more books by Quentin Blake and Emma Chichester Clark, including a follow-up to their picture book Three Little Monkeys. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-03 08:55:50 UTC ]
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A round of promotions has been revealed across 4th Estate and William Collins with Helen Garnons-Williams promoted to associate publisher across the two HarperCollins imprints and Tom Killingbeck appointed to William Colllins' editorial director, while Anna Kelly will become editorial director... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-02 10:55:24 UTC ]
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'The Sandman' is being made into a live-action series by Warner Bros. Television, and HarperCollins Germany gets its second chief in under two years. The post Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Coming to Netflix; HarperCollins Germany Names Jürgen Welte appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-02 02:40:58 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has snapped up The Batch Bible and another book from Scottish YouTube home cook The Batch Lady, Suzanne Mulholland, in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 22:57:55 UTC ]
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Publisher and nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, he extended the hand of friendship to Woolf scholars and writersThe publisher and editor Cecil Woolf, who has died aged 92, was a nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf and the last person to have known Virginia Woolf personally, taking her tea... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-06-26 16:42:57 UTC ]
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A bookseller packing list for attendees of ABA’s Children’s Institute 2019 in Pittsburgh. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-26 12:00:38 UTC ]
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HarperCollins’ Martha Ashby has snapped up a novel about "women’s bodily autonomy, motherhood and societal expectations" from American author and Publishers Weekly reviewer Donna Freitas in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 18:53:46 UTC ]
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