Booming appetites for crime, sci-fi and romance drive fiction sales 20% higher than in 2019, with Richard Osman the year’s bestselling authorBook sales continued to climb last year despite lockdowns, with more than 212m print books sold in 2021 – the highest figure of the last decade.Driven by booming appetites for crime novels, sci-fi, fantasy, romance and personal development titles, sales last year showed an increase of 5% on 2020. The sales were worth £1.82bn – a 3% increase on 2020, and the first year on record that sales have topped £1.8bn. The figures were released on Tuesday by Nielsen BookScan, which was forced to fill in lockdown data gaps with estimates based on its monthly consumer surveys, which collect data from around 3,000 book buyers each month. Bookshops across the UK were shut for over three months at the start of 2021.The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99)The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury £16.99)The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Canongate £8.99)The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Penguin £18.99)Pinch of Nom: Quick and Easy by Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson (Pan Macmillan £20)Guinness World Records 2022 (Guinness World Records £20)And Away … by Bob Mortimer (Simon & Schuster £20)Megamonster by David Walliams (HarperCollins £14.99)Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly (John Murray Press £25)Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Little, Brown £8.99) Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books division has entered into a co-publishing agreement with Omnific Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is stepping up its Christian publishing in the UK, using its acquisition of Thomas... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hong Kong Book Fair, now in its 25th year, remains firmly focused on the Chinese-language titles, but has begun to add professional elements and global authors. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monitor contributor Danny Heitman enjoys reading a children's book series about a wealthy elephant named Uncle to his son. What's surprising about that? His son is a teenager. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hard on the heels of his 2014 Kate Greenaway award, Jon Klassen has picked up a second UK... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of both hardcovers and trade paperbacks, the industry’s two largest print categories, were up 2% in the first six months of this year, compared to the first half of 2013, leading to an overall 1% gain in print unit sales at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guadalajara Book Fair's guest nation, Argentina, will honor literary greats and acknowledge Mexico as a haven for exiled writers during the Dirty War. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publishing industry's packaging of women's literary fiction in stereotypically girly covers makes great books seem trashy.If you take a look at the cover of Alice Munro's latest Nobel Prize-winning short fiction collection, The View From Castle Rock, you probably wouldn't guess it includes... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to staff, World Book Night U.S. will be suspended due to lack of money. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a three year effort, World Book Night officials said this morning they are suspending its operations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yellow Jersey Press has signed a book about the new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Knopf will release "For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice" by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, senior correspondent and associate editor of the "Washington Post," on November 4. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Gwyn Jones has acquired two novels from author Gavin McCrea for his list at Scribe UK.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will the bright, imaginative, tech savvy, book reading (or content devouring) twentysomething choose Gollancz or Google, Faber or Facebook, Orion or O2? Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2014 Self-Publishing Book Expo, first held in 2009, will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on November 15. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury gets ‘Inked’ and throws down for Dinerstein and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week, a spy thriller retelling of "King Lear," Francisco Goldman explores Mexico City, and a feminist spin on "Tom Sawyer." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The US book and journal publishing industry sold $27.01bn of books in 2013, with ebooks hitting... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to the National Book Foundation, the writer will be the first master of ceremonies to have published books in both the children's and adult fiction categories. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Venture capitalist and book lover Frank Pearl started the Perseus Books Group in 1996. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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