Friday, May 08, 2015

Latest book news from The Bookseller

Lee Child and Paula Hawkins have given Transworld two chart-toppers in this week's bestseller lists.
The Booksellers Association has said it hopes the European Commission’s competition inquiry into the e-commerce sector will look specifically at market dominance in e-books.
Bertelsmann increased its revenue and operating EBITDA in the first quarter of 2015, compared to the year before, chiefly due to its book publishing business and its German-language TV business.
The media, services and education company, which owns 53% of Penguin Random House, has released its results for the three months to 31st March, 2015, which show that group revenue increased to €3.92bn, up half a percent from €3.90bn the previous year.
Dominic Knight, Palgrave chairman and executive director of change programmes at Macmillan Science and Education, is to retire at the end of 2015 after 38 years with the company.
The news has emerged hard on the heels of completion of the merger between the bulk  of Macmillan Science and Education's companies with Springer Science+Business Media, creating new company Springer Nature.  
Frank Chambers has left his role as managing director of independent publisher Carlton Publishing, just 18 months after being appointed to the role, The Bookseller understands.
His departure comes shortly after that of Lisa Edwards, who was publisher of the adult division of Carlton for two years, and who left to “explore other opportunities in the industry” in March this year.
Penguin Random House UK Children’s today (6th May) announced it is creating one editorial team in what it described as "the next chapter in the evolution of the PRH UK Children’s division".

WH Smith has released its Richard and Judy Summer Book Club titles, featuring David Nicholls, Nick Hornby and Joel Dicker in the mix.

The eight titles feature two from publisher Orion - No Safe House by Linwood Barclay and Summertime by Vanessa Lafaye, while Nicholls’ Us (Hodder) and Hornby's Funny Girl (Penguin) also made the summer reads list.

Pan Macmillan’s Mantle imprint is to publish Kate Morton’s fifth novel later this year.
The Lake House will be published on 22nd October.
In June 1933, 16-year-old Alice Edevane is readying for her family’s Midsummer Eve party. That day the Edevane family will suffer a loss that causes them to leave their country home forever.
Morrisons is the third supermarket in the last two weeks to report falling sales.
The supermarket, which recently joined the Booksellers Association as a member, saw like-for-like sales excluding fuel fall 2.9% in the three months to 3rd May, deepening its woes from the previous quarter when sales dropped 2.6%.
HarperCollins Publishers has acquired world English rights to two more books by Patricia Cornwell.
The two Kay Scarpetta novels will be published by HarperCollins around the world, including in the UK, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, and India.
The first book will be published in the autumn of 2016, with the second following in autumn 2017.
The deal was negotiated by David Highfill, v.p. and executive editor at William Morrow with Esther Newberg of ICM Partners.
Manchester Council stopped a group of homeless people using the central library after they set up a protest camp outside.
The group set up camp in the city after an anti-austerity demonstration on the 15th April and, according to the council, attempted to storm the central library and occupy the premises on Tuesday, distressing children and families.
A debut novel that chronicles Tunisia’s recent political history has won the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
 

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