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Amazon has warned that e-book prices will rise come January
following a change in VAT law in an email to self-published authors. On 1st
January Amazon will “make a one-time adjustment to convert VAT-exclusive
list prices provided to us to VAT-inclusive list prices” resulting in a
rise in the list price of thousands of e-books.
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Guinness World Records 2015 (GWR) has recorded its
biggest weekly sale since being published in September, ending the two-week
run at the top of the charts by vlogger Zoe "Zoella" Sugg's Girl Online (Puffin).
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Penguin Random House in the UK and in the US are today (17th
December) announcing new international sales-leadership structures for
continental Europe.
PRH US’s Cyrus Kheradi, s.v.p., director, international sales
and marketing, has named Anke Reichelt as regional sales director for
Europe.
Reichelt, who is based in Berlin ,will lead an entirely
U.S-publishing-focused European team with dedicated selling
responsibilities for the Penguin and Random House publishing groups, as
well as Penguin Random House publisher service clients.
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There has been a “reluctance” shown outside of Wales to
recognise the country’s “wealth of contemporary creative talent”, the
chairman of the Welsh Books Council has said.
In his introduction to the organisation’s annual report,
Professor M Wynn Thomas said that during the centenary year of poet Dylan
Thomas’s birth, the “impression given has been that Welsh writing began and
ended with Dylan, which is news to the Welsh Books Council, and would
indeed have been news to the man himself, who was never averse to promoting
the work of his Welsh predecessors and contemporaries”.
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Darren Henley will take on the role of chief executive of Arts
Council England.
Henley takes over from Alan Davey, who is leaving the
organisation after seven years.
Since 1999, Henley has led Global’s Classic FM. He is the
author of 27 books about musics and arts, and authored two government
reviews into music and cultural education. From 2007 to 2010 he chaired the
Music Manifesto, a government-backed national campaign to improve music
education.
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Audible has released an exclusive story about characters from
the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (Scholastic) on
Audible.
The Collectors is set in the senior common
room of an Oxford college. Two new characters, Horley and Grinstead,
discuss two new works of art that Horley has added to his collection, but
neither men know that the two pieces in question are about to be caught in
the crossfire of a story that has travelled through time and between
worlds.
The story is free to download for Audible members and is
narrated by Bill Nighy.
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