Veg leaves its competitors in the dust for Oliver's 64th number one

Jamie Oliver’s Veg (Michael Joseph) has leapt straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 24,261 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 05:37:15 UTC ]
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Janine Giovanni leaves Transworld; promotions for Palmer and Chicken

Transworld's marketing director Janine Giovanni will be leaving the company in October after 30 years to set up a new coaching venture; Vicky Palmer and Tom Chicken have been promoted at Transworld as a result. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 08:23:54 UTC ]
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How Activision Blizzard Is Using Nielsen to Cut Through Faulty Esports Numbers

As esports experience massive growth and are thrust into the mainstream, statements like "League of Legends had more viewers than [major sporting event]" become more common. Various esports events have been credited with dwarfing The NBA Finals, the Champions League and even the Super Bowl.... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2019-09-05 20:28:29 UTC ]
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Ropers leaves Springer Nature as Vrancken Peeters made c.e.o.

Springer Nature's c.e.o. Daniel Ropers has stepped down, with chief commercial officer Frank Vrancken Peeters to take on the role with immediate effect.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-05 02:58:17 UTC ]
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Tarrant leaves Hachette Children's Group for Yoto

Hachette Children’s Group editorial director Jessica Tarrant has left the firm to join children’s audio start-up Yoto as its content director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 20:18:35 UTC ]
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Hewson leaves RCW for Lutyens & Rubinstein

Jennifer Hewson will join Lutyens & Rubinstein as an associate agent later this month.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 16:25:59 UTC ]
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Mark Searle leaves Quarto for DK

Mark Searle, publisher at Bright Press at The Quarto Group, will join DK as publishing director of licensing in November. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 02:29:25 UTC ]
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Burns leaves Bloomsbury for Bonnier Books UK

Elise Burns is leaving Bloomsbury to join Bonnier Books UK as its new trade sales and export director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-02 22:43:52 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Book Ranking: The Holiday basks in the number one spot

T M Logan's The Holiday (Zaffre) has jetted into the Weekly E-Ranking number one spot, displacing Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) a week after the junior doctor memoir achieved the longest ever run in the chart top spot.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-29 14:51:37 UTC ]
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Killingbeck joins Viking as Ramm leaves to launch editorial agency

HarperCollins’ Tom Killingbeck is joining Viking as editorial director as Jack Ramm leaves the PRH imprint to set up an editorial services company. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 12:08:27 UTC ]
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Harlan Coben scores first number one in almost a decade with Run Away

Harlan Coben’s Run Away (Arrow) has ended the seven-week run of David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Teachers (HarperCollins) in the top spot, leaping 42% in volume on its launch week to claim the UK Official Top 50 number one.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-20 13:20:05 UTC ]
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It’s Not Always Excellent to Be Jamie Oliver

Twenty years after he vaulted to fame, the brash British chef, TV star and cookbook author has lost his restaurant empire — but not his taste for hard work. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-08-20 10:11:06 UTC ]
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Enzor leaves Quarto to lead new Quercus imprint

Publisher Kerry Enzor is leaving Quarto to lead a new Quercus imprint focused on international non-fiction originated entirely in-house. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-18 12:13:03 UTC ]
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Walliams scores 50th number one with The World's Worst Teachers

David Walliams has bagged his 50th week at number one as The World’s Worst Teachers (HarperCollins) schools the charts for a fifth week running, selling 27,184 copies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-30 03:42:55 UTC ]
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Woodstock can’t be duplicated. Perhaps we should leave it at that.

An anniversary concert, books and other memorabilia try, once again, to capture a moment that’s passed. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-26 15:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH publishes gender pay gap nine months early and unveils plans for parental leave

Penguin Random House has revealed its gender pay gap figures nine months early with a largely unchanged balance sheet but with a new initiative which sees all new parents at the company given the opportunity to take 12 months off from next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 23:00:06 UTC ]
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Adam Bellow Leaves Publishing for 'Entrepreneurial Venture'

The veteran editor and publisher is leaving the conservative imprint he founded at St. Martin's, All Points Books, for a currently unnamed new venture. With the move, APB will close in August 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The World's Worst Teachers grabs fourth number one

David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Teachers (HarperCollins) has chalked up a fourth consecutive week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 36,912 copies for £268,604.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-23 14:08:32 UTC ]
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John Waters on Working for Mary Oliver in Her Bookstore

In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber and John Waters discuss his new memoir, Mr. Know-It-All (or as he describes, a “self-help book for lunatics,” what he’s reading this summer, and his experience working for Mary Oliver at her bookstore in Provincetown. From the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-18 08:48:16 UTC ]
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Orion hires Pearce as Oliver moves up in string of promotions

​Orion has hired Francesca Pearce as senior publicity manager and moved Leanne Oliver up to publicity director in a string of promotions for its team. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-17 16:28:04 UTC ]
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Ross leaves Hodder Education after 20 years in restructure

Hodder Education’s group business operations manager Alyssum Ross is departing the firm after 20 years, as part of a restructure. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 02:55:59 UTC ]
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