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Four Bonnier Publishing imprints – Templar Publishing, Weldon
Owen, Studio Press and Blink Publishing – are to be brought under a new
division, resulting in the loss of “less than five” jobs.
Kings Road Publishing will see Templar Publishing, Weldon
Owen and Studio Press relocate from Dorking in Surrey to Chelsea in London,
where Blink Publishing is based, from 14th September. All four imprints
have been under the control of Blink m.d. Perminder Mann, who becomes m.d.
of Kings Road Publishing.
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A founder of The Book Depository is to launch a global online
bookselling site later this year called ibiidi.com.
Dr Emad Eldeen Elakehal, former chief technology officer at
The Book Depository, is to launch ibiidi.com,
a website selling titles in multiple languages and offering customers
the option to pay for titles in a number of different currencies.
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The Scottish Children’s Book Awards shortlist has been
revealed, with every Primary 1 child given three free shortlisted titles
during Book Week Scotland.
Never Tickle a Tiger by Pamela Butchart and Marc
Boutavant (Bloomsbury), Wanted!
Ralfy Rabbit Book Burglar by Emily MacKenzie (Bloomsbury) and Mouse’s First Night at Moonlight
School by Simon Puttock and Ali Pye (Nosy Crow) are shortlisted
in the ‘Bookbug Readers’ category for children aged three-seven years-old.
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Book recommendation site Goodreads has been integrated into
Amazon’s Kindle and Fire tablet devices in the UK, Amazon has
announced.
The company bought
Goodreads, a website hosting a book lovers’ community and giving personal
book recommendations, in April 2013 for a reported $150m.
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Editions du Seuil has said it will not publish a controversial
book about King Mohammed VI of Morocco following the arrest of the authors
by French police on charges of attempted blackmail and extortion. The
publisher's c.e.o. Olivier Bétourné described himself as
"staggered" by the development.
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Orion is running a digital advertising campaign for the new
book from The Hairy Bikers, Meat
Feasts, allowing people to print a 50% off voucher for the book
to be redeemed in WH Smith stores.
The campaign, which begins this week, will allow people to
print off the vouchers for Meat
Feasts from around 50 digital advertising units [pictures
below] across the country, all within a five-minute walk of a WH Smith
outlet.
Orion said it was the first publisher in the UK to have run
such a campaign.
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Sir
Terry Pratchett’s 41st and final Discworld novel The Shepherd’s Crown (Doubleday Children’s)
grabbed the UK Official Number one by a sizeable margin, outselling the
much-hyped Stieg Larsson reboot by over 37,000 copies.
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And Then There Were None has been voted the
World's Favourite Agatha Christie Novel.
The book, which is currently being made into a BBC One series
starring "Poldark" actor Aidan Turner, came top of a poll carried
out to mark the writer's 125th birthday, which is on 15th September.
And Then There Were None, announced as the
winner last night (1st September) at the opening of the Agatha Christie:
Unfinished Photograph exhibition at Bankside Gallery in London, collected
3,211 of over 15,000 votes in a worldwide poll.
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Foyles’ Bristol branch in Cabot Circus is to relocate within
the shopping centre this autumn.
Located on Brigstowe Street, close to the recently announced
Victoria’s Secret store, the new 3,800 sq ft retail space will “raise the
profile of Foyles within Cabot Circus,” a company spokesperson said.
The relocated store will feature an "exciting" cafe
concept, building on the success of the Foyles cafe at the Charing Cross
store and aims to become a social hub for shoppers, the company said.
The bookseller expects it will be in situ in time for
Christmas.
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A memorial service for the late Ruth Rendell is due to held
next month.
Rendell
died on 2nd May at the age of 85, almost four months after being
admitted to hospital after suffering
a critical stroke.
A service for Rendell will be held on Thursday 29th October at
All Saints Margaret Street, London, at 2pm.
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Two Roads has acquired a book by comedian, actress and writer
Susan Calman.
The book, currently titled Cheer
Up Love: further adventures of the Crab of Hate, will examine
Calman’s life coping with depression and “how, with a bit of work and a lot
of box sets, she started appreciating how excellent gloomy people actually
are”.
Two Roads said Cheer
Up Love would be “a survival handbook on how to think
positively when you’re the world’s most negative person”.
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John Mitchell is to retire as m.d. of Hodder Gibson.
Mitchell has worked for Hodder Education for 31 years,
latterly heading its Scottish business. Before Hodder Gibson he led the
schools sales and marketing teams, having started his career as sales
consultant for Scotland.
Lis Tribe, m.d. of Hodder Education, said: “John has brought
both humour and humanity to every project he has worked on, but beyond that
he has shown great talent for forming lasting professional relationships
that have led in turn to enduring commercial success.
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Margaret Hewinson has been appointed as a non-executive
director of Edinburgh University Press from 1st September 2015.
She succeeds Jill Jones who has stood down after two years.
Hewinson joins Richard Fisher and Ivon Asquith, who has been re-appointed
as chairman for a further four year-term.
Hewinson is a consultant, mentor and development coach for the
publishing industry. She has had a long career in academic publishing which
included Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
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