Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

Every bookstore has regulars, but no bookstore has such a wide and eccentric cast of recurring characters as New York’s Strand. To work there, as I did for one memorable year, is to know them: the sellers, the hagglers, the unyielding optimists checking in at the information desk for the esoteric titles they requested over […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Hollywood star turned author Tom Hanks appeared at a sold-out event with Penguin Live last night, marking the finale of Southbank Centre’s biggest ever London Literature Festival at the Royal Festival Hall.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Customer needs must drive change in academic publishing, says Napack

Putting customer needs at the heart of your thinking, and letting that drive the change, and pace of change, in your business is the number one lesson for an academic publisher as it navigates the digital transition, according to Brian A Napack, the newly appointed president and c.e.o. of John... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Fletcher launches kids book club with WH Smith

McFly band member turned children's author Tom Fletcher has launched a children's book club exclusively with WH Smith. The book club titles will get promotion in-store, online and on Fletcher's YouTube channel, which has over 625,000 subscribers. The new club follows that WH Smith already runs... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Hollander to narrate Legacy of Spies audiobook

Tom Hollander, who appeared in the BBC’s adaptation of The Night Manager and Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, is reading the audiobook for John le Carré's new novel A Legacy of Spies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Hanks' event sells out in under two hours

Tickets to actor Tom Hanks' only event in the UK to promote his new collection of short stories, Uncommon Type (William Heinemann), have sold out in under two hours.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Kerridge diet book to Bloomsbury

Absolute Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has signed Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good, an "all-new" approach to low-calorie dieting. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marketers’ “Customer Experience” Chorus is Good News for Publishers

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[ Folio Magazine | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC lands book rights to Dunkirk film starring Tom Hardy

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agatha Christie's paperback artist Tom Adams to appear at CrimeFest

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Fletcher writes 'darkly magic' middle grade novel

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[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More fame for Kaikoura's stranded cows with launch of children's book

They shot to fame around the world overnight, the most unlikely of heroes, three cows stranded by the Kaikoura earthquake. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Heinemann to publish Tom Hanks short stories

Cornerstone imprint William Heinemann is publishing a collection of short stories from actor Tom Hanks, anticipated to be a "major publishing event" for PRH this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet (Absolute) has boomeranged back into the number one spot, selling 15,532 copies for £131,405. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AAP Taps Maria Pallante to Succeed Tom Allen

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Kudos buys TV rights to Tom Marcus' memoir

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