WH Smith Travel is to open a new 900 sq ft bookshop at London Bridge station in April. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A bookseller explains how Kamila Shamsie’s call for gender equality in the industry, and the fiery debate it provoked, could lead to greater diversity all aroundKamila Shamsie calling for a year of publishing only women has certainly unleashed a storm. Some disagree that gender bias exists,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#local booksellers
#ve read
#customers don
#conducted online
#male counterparts
#female authors
#commercial success
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the way Amazon distributes ebooks and its relationship with publishers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#european commission
Waterstones stores across the country will host midnight openings to celebrate the release of Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann), while the company’s flagship Piccadilly shop will host a festival. M.d. James Daunt has called the launch a "thrilling"... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#james daunt
#harper lee
#midnight openings
#waterstones stores
The organisers of the 2015 Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) today (10th June) opened its fellowship programme, which pays for international children’s publishing representatives to attend the fair. 2015 Shanghai Visiting International Publishers programme runs from 10-14th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#chinese market
#international children
The European Commission announced that it has opened a formal investigation into some of the ebook practices of Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
After purchasing Inkwood Books in Tampa, Fla., a little over two years ago, Stefani Beddingfield is getting her family into the bookselling business. Her sister Julie, who is based in the Northeast, will be opening a second location of the store in New Jersey. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#bookselling business
The displaced owners of Syria's Bright Fingers Publishing House are opening Pages, a new Arabic and multilingual bookstore in Istanbul, this week. The post Syrians Open New Arabic and Multilingual Bookshop in Istanbul appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#opening pages
#istanbul appeared
Ali Smith wins the £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her time-shifting novel How to be Both. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Ali Smith has won the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction with How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton). Smith was announced as the 20th winner of the £30,000 prize this evening (3rd June) at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, London, hosted by broadcaster, author and DJ Lauren Laverne. Shami... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#judging panel
#shami chakrabarti
#20th winner
#hamish hamilton
#ali smith
Kensal Rise Library is set to open for the first time in five years this weekend, with a community open day. The library was closed by Brent Council in 2011 and denied permission for a community library in the space, becoming a flashpoint for library campaigners, with authors such as Alan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#jacqueline wilson
#philip pullman
#alan bennett
#brent council
#library campaigners
#community library
The German Book Office New York is hiring an assistant to the director. This position offers the opportunity to learn about international book publishing. The post Job Opening: Assistant to the Director of the German Book Office New York appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#position offers
#job opening
#york appeared
On Saturday, former 'Office' co-stars B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling reunited on stage to kick off the second annual BookCon in front of a packed and boisterous crowd. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
University College London will next week launch UCL Press, the first “fully Open Access university press in the UK”. The in-house publishing arm, which will launch on 4th June, will focus on scholarly monographs, textbooks and journals. It will make all its books, journals and monographs freely... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#scholarly monographs
Responding to feedback from its most active users, PubMatch, the online rights management and promotion platform, is opening up access to its complete set of features to all users. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#complete set
#active users
Jonathan Franzen, arguably the most anticipated author at Book Expo, will be featured at the show’s opening session today to talk about "Purity" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1), his long-awaited novel and his first in five years. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#straus giroux
#book expo
#jonathan franzen
The California mini-chain will add its 12th location in July 2016 in Santa Clara. In Pittsburgh, Natalie Sacco and Trevor Thomas purchased the Raven Award-winning mystery bookshop. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#natalie sacco
#santa clara
#silicon valley
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s The Boundless, the sixth volume in the Danish author’s Department Q crime thriller series, held on to its top spot on Germany’s fiction list last month. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#fiction list
#danish author
#jussi adler-olsen
Jane Hawking’s memoir of married life with the physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking is the new number one on the Official UK Top 50 chart. In the seven days ending 16th May, Travelling to Infinity shifted 26,407 units and climbs 851 places to claim this week's top spot. Last week the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#oscar-winning film
#married life
#uk number
#previous week
WH Smith has struck a deal to open six outlets at Sydney airport, Australia. The company, which bought the Queensland-based Supanews chain last year, has reportedly secured the Sydney airport venues after a “competitive tender process” according to Stationery News Australia. The new stores... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#wh smith
Alexander McCall Smith has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, published by Birlinn imprint Polygon. This is the first time McCall Smith, the author of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series published by Little, Brown, has appeared on the comic... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#nina stibbe
#irvine welsh
#caitlin moran
#dinner party