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Romance is the main genre which Kobo platform users in the UK
read all the way to the end, an inaugural Kobo Book Report on e-reading
trends in the UK has found.
Kobo has revealed both its top purchases, and which books
readers actually completed. It found that romance was the most thoroughly
read genre on the Kobo platform, with 62% of e-book downloads read right
through to the end, followed closely by crime and thriller novels (61%),
and fantasy (60%).
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YouTube star Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, shrugged off a mild ghostwriting controversy to retain the top spot of
the UK Official Top 50 for the second straight week, with her Young Adult
novel Girl Online (Penguin)
becoming 2014's fastest selling book.
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John Wiley & Sons has reported a 6% rise year-on-year in
second quarter revenue to $477m, due to growth in its Research and
Education divisions, up 5% and 3% respectively, as well as to contributions
from its recent acquisitions CrossKnowledge and Profiles International.
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Cornerstone's Jack Fogg is joining HarperCollins in the newly-created
role of publishing director for fiction and non-fiction.
Fogg is currently editorial director at Cornerstone imprint
Century, where he has worked with authors including Rod Stewart, James
Corden, Tim Vine and Hugh Howey.
He will begin at HarperCollins in March, reporting in to
executive publisher Kate Elton.
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Booktrust and the BBC have launched a short story competition
for teenagers.
The ‘BBC Young Writers’ Award with Booktrust’ is for teen
writers (aged 14-18) of short stories, on any topic, of up to a 1,000
words.
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Sphere has acquired two more novels from Deborah Rodriguez,
including a sequel to her debut, The
Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.
Catherine Burke, publisher at Sphere fiction, bought UK and
Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia New Zealand and Canada, to the
novels from Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates, working on behalf of
Marly Rusoff. Rights for Australia New Zealand were acquired by Beverley
Cousins, fiction publisher at Penguin Random House Australia.
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