Waterstones to open two new bookshops in London and Glasgow

Waterstones will open two new branches at London's Brent Cross and Glasgow's Silverburn shopping centres later this year.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Eight books up for Waterstones prize

Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North is among eight contenders for Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Flanagan and Macdonald on Waterstones shortlist

Man Booker Prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Samuel Johnson Prize winner H is for Hawk are amongst the titles competing to win the Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. There are eight titles this year on the shortlist, voted for by Waterstones’ booksellers– three adult fiction,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hunger Games to be London theatre show

Entertainment company Lionsgate is teaming with Dutch media company Imagine Nation and US based Triangular Entertainment to adapt Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series (Scholastic) for the stage. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Open Road Dodges $1 Million Bullet in Copyright Case

Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald has denied HarperCollins’ bid to recover more than $1 million in attorney fees from Open Road in its infringement case over an ebook edition of Jean Craighead George's 'Julie of the Wolves.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CMS Committee criticises ACE's 'unfair London focus'

The Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has told Arts Council England to move faster in correcting its "clear arts funding imbalance in favour of London". However ACE chair Sir Peter Bazalgette has argued for more money to help that process, saying that it is difficult for ACE to act... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Race to Christmas Number One wide open

The race for the Christmas number one title is wide open this year, with no outstanding contender for the top spot. Seven national retailers, along with prominent indies, have told The Bookseller their predicted top five titles for Christmas across all genres, with many maintaining it is still... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gateshead return for Waterstones

Waterstones looks set to give its Christmas trade an added boost with the opening of two new branches between now and December 25th. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poirot and Jeeves join in Waterstones sleepover

Detective Hercule Point and butler Jeeves joined guests at a sleepover event in Waterstones’ flagship store on Saturday (26th October). Altogether 19 guests spent 12 hours overnight in the bookshop at an event organised after the company hit the headlines when an American tourist got locked in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's Kindle Scout Open for Voting

Voting begins today on Kindle Scout, Amazon’s new crowdsourced publishing program, letting readers preview and vote on which unpublished manuscripts they believe should be published. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookshop We Deserve: from the archive, 24 October 1924

A bookshop in the old days seemed a kind of antechamber to Fairyland. Not so today, when books are done up like gaudy confectionery and treated like merchandiseTo stand in a certain kind of modern bookshop is to feel like Walpoles learned blockhead, whose only merit was that he had read more... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Who wants to sleep over at a Waterstones bookstore?

After an American became accidentally locked inside a Waterstones location after it closed, the UK book store chain is inviting contest winners to stay the night. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones to hold 'sleepover' following tourist lock-in

Waterstones Piccadilly is to host a sleepover this Friday (24th October), following an incident last Thursday night (16th October) where a tourist got locked in Waterstones in Trafalgar Square.   Waterstones is running a competition on the Airbnb website for 10 guests to win the chance to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tourist gets trapped in Waterstones bookstore, sparks jealousy

Waterstones patron David Willis tweeted at the Twitter account for the company, alerting them that he was locked inside one of their stores. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Speedy growth for Macmillan's Open Research

In the 10 months since its creation as an independent business unit, there has been “enormous” growth at the Open Research arm of Macmillan Science & Education’s Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan, its m.d. Sam Burridge (pictured) has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Lemony Snicket' urges authors to connect with indie bookshops

Authors United has sent out a letter from the author Daniel Handler  - a.k.a. Lemony Snicket - encouraging writers to take part in Upstream, a new programme to support independent bookstores. Upstream, “cooked up” by Handler and “assorted interested parties”, aims to connect writers with their... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keane and Doyle to speak at London's sports writing festival

Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle will be among the big names appearing at the second London Sports Writing Festival, taking place next week at Lord's Cricket Ground.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide in pictures

From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the worlds most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2014: CCC Hosts Open Access Town Hall

At a packed, two-hour town hall in Hall 4.2, the Copyright Clearance Center examined the shift to Open Access publishing, and the next steps in its development. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshops hope super Thursday will help start a new chapter for publishing

Hardback titles by the likes of John Cleese and Jacqueline Wilson go on sale in race for Christmas bestseller listsTim Walker is expecting queues outside his familys bookshops in Oakham and Stamford on Thursday. Other booksellers up and down the country will be hoping for a similar rush of eager... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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