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Booksellers have welcomed the news that Amazon is to start booking
sales made to customers in the UK through its UK branch instead of through Luxembourg, though some say
they remain "cautious" about the development.
The online retailer brought its new arrangements, which means
it will be taxed by HMRC, into force on 1st May.
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The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is seeking a new
sponsor, following the conclusion of an "open-ended" arrangement
with an anonymous donor which has funded the prize for the past three
years.
Prior to that, the prize, which was set up in 1999, was
supported by the BBC. The winner's announcement and dinner in 2015 will be
hosted by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by US philanthropist Len
Blavatnik.
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Hachette Book Group in the US and Hesperus Press have begun arbitration proceedings to resolve the dispute
involving royalties for Hesperus' English-language edition of Jonas
Jonasson's The
100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
The two parties are understood to be waiting for an arbitrator to be
appointed, as well as a date for the hearing.
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The High Court has granted an application by the Publishers
Association (PA) to block access to seven websites which have been
infringing copyright.
The application, made under 97A of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988, means that the UK's main internet service providers
(ISPs) - BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk and EE – will be required to block
customer access to the seven sites.
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Former W H Smith books director Michael Neil will cover the
maternity leave of Dubray Books' managing director Maria Dickenson.
Neil, who
left W H Smith last month, will be the Irish independent bookshop
chain¹s acting managing director from the beginning of August.
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Studio 28, the digital-publishing arm of Curtis Brown Literary
& Talent Agency, is to publish its first original title.
The Swiss Spy by Alex Gerlis will be
published as an e-book on Monday 1st June.
Studio 28 officially launched in March this year, and will
publish in the UK and other territories. It will seek rights from authors
already on the agency’s books or work on “rediscovering and reinventing
literary gems from 100 years of the agency’s backlist”.
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BBC Radio 4’s former commissioning editor Caroline Raphael is
to join Penguin Random House UK.
Raphael will take on the role of editorial director, audio,
reporting to audio publisher Videl Bar-Kar. She will lead Penguin Random
House UK’s audio editorial and production team and help grow its digital
and physical audio list.
Raphael will “help shape and deliver an ambitious audio growth
strategy for Penguin Random House UK’s eight publishing companies, working
with authors, performance and production talent to commission and publish
tomorrow’s bestsellers”.
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The Chinese book market represents an opportunity for UK
publishers and writers, but there are still "considerable hurdles
to overcome", according to new research from Nesta and The Literary
Platform.
In two reports published today (27th May), the research
lays out the scope of opportunities to reach a growing Chinese market,
particularly through the use of social media, such as Douban, a social
media platform, publisher and retailer.
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The Times
Literary Supplement has named Hull poet Frank Redpath’s
"In and Out" as its Poem of the Week, after originally claiming
it was an unpublished poem by Philip Larkin.
"In and Out" was published on the TLS website on May
22nd, accompanied by a long essay on the Larkin "discovery". But
after it was pointed out to the TLS
that the poem was by Redpath and had been published in an anthology to
which Larkin contributed a forward, the TLS
took the article down.
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Simon and Schuster Children’s UK will this autumn co-publish
the sixth novel by Becca Fitzpatrick with S&S US.
Dangerous Lies is about a teenage girl
called Stella Gordon who becomes a key witness in a murder trial and has to
go into witness protection. She struggles to keep her identity secret while
she finds herself drawn to a new love interest.
Fitzpatrick is the author of several YA novels, including the
Hush, Hush series, and her books have sold more than 300,000 copies in the
UK, according to Nielsen BookScan.
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Hachette Australia has launched a prize for emerging writers
in memory of its former c.e.o. Matt Richell, who died suddenly in July
2014.
The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, has been launched with
the Richell family, is in partnership with the Guardian Australia and The Emerging Writers’
Festival (EWF), which began today (26th May). The prize will be awarded
annually.
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