To further capitalise on the popularity of BookTok the social media giant will let users purchase titles through partnerships with publishers and retailersTikTok has proved to be a hugely successful way to promote books in recent years, with publishers attributing the popularity of books such as It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid in large part to recommendations on the app. Now TikTok has decided to sell books directly, announcing partnerships with publishers HarperCollins UK, WH Smith, Bloomsbury and bookshop.org, all of which will sell books via TikTok’s online marketplace.#BookTok is one of the social media platform’s most popular hashtags, reaching more than 90bn views to date, and as a result TikTok has formed several partnerships off the back of its success, including with the Hay festival and publisher Penguin Random House (PRH), where since September, app users have been able to tag any PRH title in their videos. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2022-11-17 16:49:24 UTC ]
The union, which represents workers at HarperCollins and the New Press, has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to allow Abrams Books employees to vote on unionization. Organizers behind the union drive cited low salaries and a lack of job security as factors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Freet worked in several positions at HarperCollins before becoming an agent, first with Foundry Literary + Media and most recently with Folio Literary Management. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Globe's purchase of the Florida-based guidebook publisher is its first acquisition since its sister company, Rowman & Littlefield, was sold to Bloomsbury last May. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandalsA gossipy account of the lives of Roman emperors has entered the bestseller charts – 2,000 years after it was written. Sex scandals... Continue reading at The Guardian
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YS Chi, chairman of Elsevier, and director of corporate affairs for the RELX Group, remains an officer as immediate past chair. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Pallante: ‘What a Privilege To Welcome Brian Back’ n an announcement today (February), the Association of... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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After a decade of downsizing, the beloved bookseller is seeing a resurgence thanks in part to TikTok’s #BookTok and a rise in so-called third spaces. January was a long month, but we finally have some good news in 2025: Bookseller Barnes & Noble plans to open at least 60 new stores this... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Unless a new contract is reached by midnight GMT, Amazon will no longer sell Bloomsbury UK's titles in its online stores in the U.K., Europe, and Australia. While Bloomsbury print book availability in Amazon’s U.S. store is unaffected by the action, Bloomsbury’s Kindle editions will not be... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The HarperCollins division is eliminating its Canary Street Press and Graydon House imprints and incorporating existing titles into Hanover Square Press, MIRA Books, and Park Row Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Mon, 01/13/2025 - 09:20 Author photo by Germán NájeraThe 2025 Puterbaugh Lit Fest will return to the University of... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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In a new year's rollout of Dutch-market buys, HarperCollins Holland names four Gottmer imprints being acquired in the Netherlands. The post HarperCollins Holland: Acquiring Four Gottmer Imprints appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2025-01-08 04:40:03 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Holland has agreed to acquire four lifestyle imprints from Gottmer Uitgevers Groep, including Becht (cookbooks and eco-friendly lifestyle), Altamira (mind, body, and spirit), Dominicus (travel guides), and Hollandia (water sports). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The founder and CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing has made no secret of his desire to expand in the U.S., and he succeeded extraordinarily in advancing that aim this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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White Nights, the author’s 1848 novella, sounds an unlikely candidate to go viral, but the story of lovelorn loneliness is now a favourite among TikTok and Instagram usersBeing popular on TikTok can make just about anything fly off the shelves, from beauty products to cucumbers, which became one... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The author will serve as editor-at-large of Monument Books, helping to find authors that champion ‘ideas, stories and culture, as well as uplifting or refashioning past legacies’Reni Eddo-Lodge, the author of the 2017 bestseller Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has launched... Continue reading at The Guardian
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