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Lee Child and Paula Hawkins have given Transworld two
chart-toppers in this week's bestseller lists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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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.
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A debut novel that chronicles Tunisia’s recent political
history has won the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
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