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Dan Brown: 'no rush for next Langdon' Dan Brown’s next novel will feature character Robert Langdon, but the bestselling author has warned fans it may be some time before the manuscript is ready. The American thriller writer met a group of trade press journalists in Sharjah, UAE, where he is attending the Sharjah International Book Fair 2014 as the guest of honour.

Bloomsbury's Charkin warns of industry 'monopolisation' Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin has warned of the dangers of the book industry being “monopolized” by “a single distribution channel”. Giving his keynote speech at the opening of Sharjah International Book Fair’s professional programme 2014 earlier today (3rd November), Charkin argued that publishers needed to be paid properly for the books they produce, and he levelled criticism at unspecified companies which "don't care” about the industry. Cornerstone releases Harper Lee enhanced e-book Cornerstone today releases an enhanced digital edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s book was released as an e-book for the first time in July, after Cornerstone acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to the e-book and digital audio. The special enhanced digital edition includes an an extract of the audiobook read by Sissy Spacek and six videos from the documentary "Hey Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird" Unbound seeks to draw in more women writers Crowdfunding publisher Unbound has launched Women in Print, a campaign to encourage more female writers to submit their ideas for books. Unbound has published 43... Read more PRH proposes international sales restructure The changes involve the creation of two new international teams working across all PRH UK’s publishing lists More Six weeks in a row for chart-topping Walliams Published November 4, 2014. By John Lewis David Walliams' Awful Auntie (HarperCollins) retains pole position at the top of the official UK Top 50 for a record-breaking sixth week selling another 31,012 copies in the seven days ending 1st November. Volume sales were down 13% week on week but the bestseller has yet to sell less than 30,000 copies per week since its publication on the 25th of September.  Six weeks for the children's novel marks the longest tally for a single edition of a children's book at the top of the chart for over a decade. No single edition has had a longer run since the hardback of J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Bloomsbury) topped the chart for seven weeks back in the summer of 2003.To date Awful Auntie has sold 247,855 copies. C J Sansom, Peter James, Lynda Bellingham and Alfie Deyes all retained their positions at the top of the Fiction and Non-fiction charts respectively in a quiet release week, which saw just one new entry into the Top 50 chart inside the Top 20. The World of Ice and Fire (HarperVoyager), George R R Martin's sprawling history and folklore of the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos upon which the author's dynastic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire takes place, was a new entry at number eight selling 13,187 copies. In value terms, it was the fiction top seller worth nearly £200,000 to booksellers last week. By volume, C J Sansom's Lamentation (Mantle) retained top spot in original Fiction for a second week selling 16,338 copies. Recent new entries for Bernard Cornwell's The Empty Throne (HarperCollins, 10,286 copies) and John Grisham's legal thriller Gray Mountain (Hodder, 7,327 copies) remain in the top five at three and four respectively.