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Waterstones unveils 'more pleasurable' website Waterstones has relaunched its website after several months in the planning, to create a “simpler and more pleasurable experience” for customers to shop online.   The company has relaunched its website with a new look and feel, featuring booksellers’ reviews, the integration of the Waterstones blog and promising customers a website that’s easier to use “while on the move”, fully responsive to tablets and mobile phones.

Haynes buys Teon Media Haynes Publishing has acquired digital platform Teon Media for £450,000. The company, a digital platform designed to engage with younger motorists, will enable Haynes to “accelerate development” of its digital delivery plans, the car manuals publisher said.  Haynes acquired 100% of the share capital of Teon, a UK-based private limited business owned by Peter George, and will pay the £450,000 in staged payments from cash resources over 24 months.

Non Pratt joins Bookseller Industry Awards judges Author Non Pratt has joined the judging panel for the Bookseller Industry Awards, alongside fellow writer Matt Haig and Reading Agency chief executive Sue Wilkinson.

BBC to host poetry season and 'Artsnight' show A new Friday night BBC2 TV arts show, "Artsnight", and a season of poetry-focused programming on BBC4, including a profile of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, are in the pipeline. Details of the new arts programming have been revealed ahead of a “major new partnership announcement between the BBC and UK-wide arts organisations to encourage creativity and participation in the arts”.

'Love, Nina' to be five-part BBC1 drama Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s prize-winning Love, Nina (Penguin) will be shown as a five-part drama on BBC One. The Bookseller revealed in November last year that Hornby was adapting the book, which won the Non-fiction Book of the Year award at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2014. The BBC has commissioned Love, Nina as a drama series of five 30-minute episodes.

Muchamore donates £10k to LGBT charities YA author Robert Muchamore is donating £10,218 to LGBT charities after making a “cheap shot” about lesbians on his public Facebook page. Muchamore said he will split the money, which is £1 for every one of his 10,218 followers onTwitter, between four different charities. His promise comes after he voiced insulting criticism of a group of women who were protesting about the new "Fifty Shades of Grey" film.