Oxford anthropology professor Harvey Whitehouse's The Evolution Gap will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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After four years of planning and construction, Hachette’s huge new distribution centre—the most expensive capital project in the firm’s history—was officially opened this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Figures in the publishing industry have expressed frustration at the latest round of gender pay gap reports, which showed little progress had been made since 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK’s overall gender pay gap has swung in favour of men, with women now earning 3% less than men working at the company, on the median calculation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Publishing’s median gender pay gap has grown to 21.7% in 2018 from 17.2% the year before although its mean figure fell slightly, according to its latest report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins’ gender pay gap has remained broadly static with the publisher saying it is "confident" of change long term after introducing initiatives including enhanced parental leave, balanced shortlists for senior roles and a blind recruitment process. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s has revealed a gender pay gap of 1.4% in favour of men, a fraction lower than last year’s 1.8% and still less than the national average of 17.9%. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s publisher Scholastic has revealed a median gender pay gap of 8.8%, a fraction up on last year’s 8.5% but still less half the national average of 17.9%. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The median gender pay gap at Macmillan Publishing International Limited has closed slightly to 28% in favour of women while the difference in bonus payments for men has risen, according to its new report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press' latest UK gender pay gap details, covering the year ending March 2018, show a small increase in the median figure from 12.6% last year to 13.4% in 2017/18. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH imprint William Heinemann will publish Ani Katz’s “shocking and utterly compelling” debut novel A Good Man, which sees Katz tackle the world of toxic masculinity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nicholas Schmidle, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is to draw on four years of reporting on Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic for a new book about the venture, to be published by Hutchinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press’ Fraser Hutchinson will join literacy charity the Reading Agency in April as head of publisher partnerships. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink has signed Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse as the Bonnier Books UK imprint acquires rights to the comedy duo's new book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The latest gender pay gap report from Wiley, which takes data for UK staff from April 2018, shows a median pay gap of 22.7%, up from 21.5% the previous year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children who have 60 or more books at home are five and a half times more likely to read above the level expected for their age than their peers who have fewer than 10 books, according to the National Literacy Trust. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The gender gap in the number of children who say they enjoy reading has narrowed, with boys aged 11 lagging only 9 percentage points behind girls of the same age, according to the Read On. Get On coalition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hutchinson is set to publish Michael Palin’s North Korea journal after associate publisher Nigel Wilcockson acquired the Monty Python member's account of his trip to one of the world’s most isolated countries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK is calling on all major publishers "to be transparent" when reporting their gender pay gaps next March, specifically by disclosing how they fare both with and without their distribution arms being taken into account. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Heinemann has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to a book about the Charles Manson murders by Tom O’Neill, with editorial input from Dan Piepenbring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With new technology, reselling books on Amazon has become profitable for those willing to trawl thrift stores, library sales, and used bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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