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Booksellers have criticised the Man Booker Prize's change of
stance on the print availability of longlisted titles as “disappointing”.
However others have applauded the ruling, saying publishers must be able to
set publication dates as they wish.
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Concerns about a lack of women in the topmost positions at
major trade publishers have come to the fore after the announcement that
Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie is departing her role.
Mackenzie will become chairman of the company on 1st July,
with David Shelley taking over the c.e.o. position, before she steps down
altogether at the end of 2016.
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Comic book members of the French Publishers Association
(Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE) will publish a special album in
homage to Charlie Hebdo
and victims of last week’s attacks, the trade publication Livres Hebdo has
reported.
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 Prospect, the union for professionals, has stepped up its
campaign against mooted cuts to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) library,
launching a poster campaign on the London Underground.
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The British Library’s chief executive has argued for renewed
and sustained investment in the UK’s knowledge infrastructure, saying
public and academic libraries are key to the UK’s success globally.
Launching Living
Knowledge, an eight-year vision for the British Library to take it
through to its 50th anniversary in 2023, c.e.o. Roly Keating also said the
British Library’s full potential was only just “beginning to be realised”.
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