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The Creative Industries Federation has said interim
relief for self-employed workers from the government must be made
"immediately accessible" as "a matter of urgency",
ahead of the timeline of the beginning of June, as freelance
creatives struggle to pay their bills now. |
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Hive is currently closed for new orders due to
“unprecedented demand” while the Waterstones website is also
experiencing delays as online retailers struggle during the lockdown. |
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Quercus has won a six-way auction for Laura Kay's debut
novel The Split—described
as "a Louise Rennison for grown-ups". |
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Major French publishers are making their staff
part-time under new measures announced by the government to help
companies survive the lockdown imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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Anthony Horowitz will be hosting a virtual book launch for
his new novel, Nightshade,
the latest release in the Alex Rider series. |
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The Internet Archive's move to lift restrictions on 1.4
million books has been branded an “aggressive, unlawful and
opportunistic attack” on the rights of authors and publishers by the
Association of American Publishers. |
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Pavilion-published children's illustrator Millie Marotta
has launched an initiative to get the nation colouring while supporting
the NHS. |
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Literary agent Simon Trewin has partnered
with Writing.ie—a resource site for unpublished authors—to
launch a weekly one-hour show on Facebook Live. |
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Usborne is launching Play and Learn at Home, a digital
campaign to keep children stimulated during the lockdown, alongside
reducing all its e-books to 99p across all platforms until the end of
April. |
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Egmont has launched 14Stories14Days: a new website,
inspired by the recommended 14 days of self-isolation, offering 14
days of free content to provide entertainment and educational support
for parents, carers and children across the UK. |
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The Rathbones Folio Prize and the University of East
Anglia (UEA) have announced a new partnership that will see exceptional
authors championed by the prize offered a £5,000 visiting
fellowship by UAE. |
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The Tir na n-Og Children’s Book Awards and the Books
Council of Wales has announced the shortlists for the 2020
awards. |
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Latest headlines for
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Keep an eye on our Twitter feed for the YA Book Prize
shortlist, which will be announced later this week.
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Publishers are encouraging staff to continue taking
holidays during the period of lockdown to allow for rest and
recuperation. |
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Penguin Random House UK c.e.o. Tom Weldon says the company
is actively seeking ways of helping struggling booksellers during
the coronavirus lockdown. |
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Author and illustrator Charlie Mackesy is this year’s
collaborator on the Books Are My Bag limited edition bag, which will be
available exclusively in bookshops across the UK and Ireland from
Bookshop Day (Saturday 3rd October 2020). |
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Barnes & Noble has temporarily shut
approximately 65% of its stores following the coronavirus outbreak
in the US. |
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At Informa, parent company of Taylor & Francis, top
bosses are to take salary cuts "through the current period of
uncertainty created by Covid-19", the company has announced. |
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Dean Koontz tops the bookstat chart with The Eyes of Darkness. |
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Début author Holly Jackson is up against heavyweight
names, including Malorie Blackman and Frances Hardinge, on the
shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2020. |
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Andersen Press has partnered with Seven Stories to
provide weekly virtual story times free of charge throughout the
coronavirus pandemic. |
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Raven Books has won the American noir classic, Nightmare Alley, in
a “hotly contested” six-way auction. |
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Laura Cumming, Max Porter and Lucy Ellmann have been
longlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje
Prize, rewarding fiction, non-fiction or poetry–which best evokes the
spirit of a place. |
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Orion has bagged the "visceral, sharp and achingly
funny" debut of Kirsty Capes, a 26-year-old marketer at
HarperCollins. |
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Little, Brown has launched a personalised book
recommendation service on its social media channels. |
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Bookseller Media Limited | Floor 10 | Westminster Tower | 3 Albert Embankment
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Latest headlines for
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Keep an eye on our Twitter feed for the YA Book Prize
shortlist, which will be announced later this week.
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Anxiety about health and finances, stress at juggling
childcare and uncertainty for the future are frequent
reactions among book trade staffers to working through the current
coronavirus crisis, according to the nearly 150 respondents to The Bookseller's survey,
launched yesterday |
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Indie bookshops are focusing on online sales and coming up
with innovative ideas for business after the coronavirus crisis
forced physical stores to close. |
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A crowdfunder set up by the trade to raise money for
booksellers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic has increased its target
to £100,000 after Penguin Random House and the Booksellers Association
pledged support. |
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The Women's Prize for Fiction award ceremony has been
postponed until September because of the coronavirus pandemic. |
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The Publishers Association has unveiled a brand
and website redesign, including a new logo, icon and colour scheme
that have been chosen "to reflect the creativity and dynamism of
the publishing industry". |
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BBC Arts has launched Culture in Quarantine, a virtual
arts festival “rooted in the experience of national lockdown”, with
highlights including "The Big Book Weekend", co-founded by
Kit de Waal and Molly Flatt. |
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Former “Blue Peter” presenter turned children's writer
Konnie Huq is hosting a series of videos called "Science,
Scribbles and Stories" to keep children entertained and educated
over the coming weeks. |
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Body positivity campaigner and influencer Megan Crabbe and
the inaugural Children’s Laureate Wales, Eloise Williams, are among the
judges for the 2020 YA Book Prize, which reveals its shortlist later
today (Thursday 26th March).
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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired a new Claude
title from author and illustrator Alex T Smith, in
which Claude and Sir Bobblysock find themselves offering to
babysit princes and princesses on the Queen’s birthday. |
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Simon & Schuster Children's UK has acquired two
picture books from author and illustrator Tom Percival. |
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Greg Orme's The
Human Edge (Pearson Business) has been named book of
the year at the Business Book Awards. |
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The audiobook version of Shola Von Reinhold's debut, Lote (Jacaranda),
will feature narration from award-winning “Fresh Meat” star Zawe
Ashton. |
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Quarto has posted a trading update for its 2019
results, saying it expects revenues to slip 9%
to $135.8m (2018: $149.3m) but will be returning a
profit of $2.9m. |
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Edinburgh-based wholsesaler Bookspeed has closed its
business during the coronavirus pandemic while Baker & Taylor has
closed its Bicester facility for everything other than “urgent and
essential matters”. |
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Hilary Mantel's The
Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) has held the UK
Official Top 50 number one spot for a third week running, selling
30,280 copies through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. |
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Arts Council England (ACE) has announced a £160m emergency
funding package to help artists and art organisations cope with the
coronavirus crisis. |
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Penguin Random House c.e.o. Markus Dohle has warned
staff the publisher may need to tighten its belt in
its approach to publishing facing "the difficult
times ahead". |
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Pan Macmillan has said it is “forensically reviewing”
its publication programme to decide on possible title moves following
the closure of major high street chains during the coronavirus crisis. |
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The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has
announced that it will move on to a Phase Two investigation of the
proposed merger between Cengage and McGraw-Hill, after concluding
in its first probe that the move could result in higher-priced
university textbooks. |
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At the coronavirus outbreak reshapes our industry, The Bookseller is
inviting staff members from across the book trade to share their
experiences of working during the coronavirus outbreak. |
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The European & International Booksellers
Federation (EIBF) has highlighted the enforced closure of brick and
mortar bookshops amid the coronavirus crisis is putting the
book trade in a precarious position. |
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The International Booker Prize is the latest
prize to announce it is going digital in 2020 in wake of the
coronavirus crisis. |
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Albert Uderzo, the illustrator and co-creator
of Asterix, has died, aged 92. |
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Simon and Schuster UK has signed a four-book deal
with Sunday Times bestselling
author Heidi Swain. |
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W H Smith has closed around 60% of its shops after the
Prime Minister ordered non-essential stores to shut owing to the
coronavirus outbreak. |
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Penguin Random House increased both its revenues and
profits in 2019, according to parent company Bertelsmann, which said it
would continue to expand the publisher’s businesses including through
acquisition. |
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Valeria Luiselli has won the £30,00 Rathbones Folio
Prize for her "fiercely imaginative"
autobiographical work of fiction, Lost
Children Archive (Fourth Estate), inspired by the
author's work with young migrants on the Mexico-US border. |
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Publishers have said they are committed to helping
independent booksellers during the economic fall-out from coronavirus. |
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Hodder Non-Fiction is making a series of changes to its
editorial team: Anna Baty is joining from The Bodley Head as
senior commissioning editor, while Zuleika’s Tom Perrin is taking
on a consultant editor role and Huw Armstrong has been promoted. |
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As part of a new virtual book club,
publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove will be in conversation with a
Dialogue author about their book on Instagram live every
Thursday at 8 p.m. for the next 10 weeks. |
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Niki Chang is leaving The Good Literary Agency (TLGA) to
join David Higham Associates (DHA) in April as a literary agent. |
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, has struck a
deal to publish two more psychological suspense novels from Sunday Times bestselling
author Tess Stimson. |
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Three members of the trade have launched a £10,000
crowdfunder raising money for hardship grants to help booksellers hit
by the coronavirus crisis. |
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The Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing has launched a
new award recognising narrative books that reflect conservation or
climate change and how it impacts on nature and the outdoors. |
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Woody Allen's memoir has been released by US indie
Skyhorse Publishing after the title was dropped by Hachette Book Group. |
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Head of Zeus is to publish the debut novel of Nicole
Kennedy, a former City lawyer. |
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Waterstones and Blackwell's both announced on Sunday
(22nd March) that they will close all their physical bookshops on a
temporary basis owing to concerns over the spread of coronavirus. |
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Amazon’s “buy" pre-order buttons have been returned
for upcoming titles, after they were removed from
not-yet-published books for two days to prioritise stocking other
high-demand items during the coronavirus pandemic. |
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Pearson has warned its profits will be hit, and paused its
share buyback, after the Covid-19 pandemic closed testing centres and
saw US state assessments postponed or waived. |
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Waterstones Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell has
launched a digital hub with reading charity BookTrust to keep
youngsters busy while schools are closed. |
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There will be a digital award ceremony for
the Rathbones Folio Prize tonight (23rd
March), after the Rathbones Folio Sessions and gala event at
the British Library were cancelled owing to Covid-19. |
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The Hay Festival has soared past the halfway mark of its
£150,000 crowdfunding campaign, launched after this year's event was
cancelled. |
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Octopus is launching a Meet The Author series on
Instagram. |
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For the week ending 14th March, a seven-day period in
which Italy went into lockdown, the UK prime minister said “many will
lose loved ones” and the Premier League and professional sport in
general was suspended, Dean Koontz’s The Eyes of Darkness topped the
Bookstat top 10. |
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Collins has made hundreds of books and learning resources
free for teachers and families as schools close over the coronavirus. |
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Quercus has announced that actresses Alison Steadman and
Daisy Edgar-Jones will voice the audiobook for Beth O’Leary’s second
novel, The Switch. |
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Egmont is to publish a three-book middle-grade
children’s series by Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocket of Stars. |
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