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Amazon has begun fining publishers for late deliveries of
books to its warehouses.
Meanwhile, some payments to publishers have been delayed
by what the company referred to as a “technical error”.
The e-commerce giant has written to suppliers warning that
if they do not hit delivery targets, they will be charged between 3-10%
of the cost of the goods.
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James Meek's Private
Island (Verso Books) has won the Orwell Prize for books,
which celebrates political writing.
Meek was announced as the winner of the annual prize at a
ceremony at the University of Westminster yesterday (21st May).
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Pan Macmillan has appointed Jamie Coleman as commissioning
editor on its non-fiction team, as well as making a number of other
appointments and promotions.
Coleman, who will publish humour and gift titles for the
Boxtree list, joins from Greene & Heaton literary agency, where he
started in 2013.
His client list at Greene & Heaton included Michael
Booth, Emma Chapman, and @50shedsofgrey.
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Greystone Books has acquired 1,000 Lashes, a collection of
writings by imprisoned Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi.
The blogger was was sentenced to 1,000 lashes by the Saudi
authorities last year, and is currently serving a prison sentence.
The book will be published in the UK in July, with
proceeds donated to a non-profit organisation that is working to
support the author.
Greystone has acquired world English language rights in
the book.
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Brigid Coady has won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s
(RNA) Joan Hessayon Award for her book No One Wants to be Miss Havisham
(HarperImpulse).
Coady was presented with the £1,000 prize for the award,
given for new writers, at the RNA’s Summer Party, held this evening
(21st May) at the Royal Overseas League in London.
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More than 150 writers from around the world, including
Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Yann Martel, Salman Rushdie and
Colm Tóibín, have condemned the murders of three secular bloggers in
Bangladesh this year.
The group, which also includes publishers and lawyers, has
joined PEN International and English PEN in calling on Bangladeshi
Prime Minister Hasina Wajed and her government to ensure that these
events are not repeated and the perpetrators are brought to justice.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) has seen a boost in
turnover in 2014, with a small growth in the independent publisher's
digital sales.
For the year ending December 2014, JKS recorded a turnover
of £4.9m, up 6.5% from £4.6m in 2013. Profits for the year stood at 10%
of total group turnover and the group also has £1m in cash resources,
which will be used to reinvest in future publishing activities, the
company said.
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UK media investment firm Sandbox Partners has acquired the
Family Education Network (FEN), which includes Jeff Kinney’s
Poptropica, from Pearson. The financial details were not disclosed.
FEN provides educational resources for parents, teachers,
and students, while Poptropica is an online children’s world for
children aged 6-15. It was created by Jeff Kinney, author of the Wimpy
Kid series (Penguin RandomHouse Children’s), who will stay in the role
of creative director.
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Quercus is to publish an adult edition of Only Ever Yours by
Louise O’Neill above, the winner of the YA Book Prize 2015.
The publisher hopes the adult edition will get more space
in bricks and mortar bookshops and attract more coverage outside of YA
press circles.
Quercus’ Niamh Mulvey, who edited the book, said: “The YA
edition has shown us that this is one of those very special books with
the potential to reach readers of all ages and genders.”
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Simon & Schuster UK will publish a graphic memoir by
renowned comic book creator Stan Lee.
Iain MacGregor, non-fiction publishing director at S&S
UK, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Matthew Benjamin, senior
editor at Touchstone S&S US, who acquired world rights from the
Susan Crawford Literary Agency.
Lee is known for helping to create popular comic book
heroes such as The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men,
Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. His graphic memoir will be titled AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE:
A Marvelous Memoir.
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The leading French cultural products chain Fnac opened its
first store in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Tuesday (19th).
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Author and campaigner Alan Gibbons has reissued his
request for a public debate on libraries with culture minister Ed
Vaizey.
In a
letter written on his website, Gibbons congratulates Vaizey on the
Conservative party’s recent election win and his return to his seat in
the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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