Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Latest news from The Bookseller

Nicola Solomon
The Society of Authors is seeing a number of "once well-known authors" apply for assistance to its Pension Fund, intended to help those who have fallen on hard times - when with fairer contracts allowing rights reversion they could be making an income from their backlist, SoA chief executive Nicola Solomon has said.
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction has struck a new five-year sponsorship deal with Baillie Gifford and will seek to extend its reach to the US.
Faber
Mitzi Angel has acquired a biography of eight women who worked in Mecklenburgh Square, London, during the interwar period as her first acquisition for Faber.
Jon McGregor
The format of literary festivals, which “privileges those from a specific cultural and educational background”, is hampering diversity, author Jon McGregor argued yesterday at the Cambridge Literary Festival.
Lord George Weidenfeld
British publisher Lord George Weidenfeld is helping to fund 2,000 Christian Syrians fleeing ISIS to repay a personal debt.
Portico Prize
Benjamin Myers has won the £10,000 Portico Literature Prize 2015 for Fiction while Richard Benson won the £10,000 Portico Prize for non-fiction.
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Amazon UK
Amazon UK said Black Friday this year was its busiest day ever, as it sold around 86 items per second.
Eksmo
Oleg Novikov, a Russian billionaire and general director of AST Eksmo, one of Russia’s leading publishing houses, has acquired full control of Ventana-Graf, a major Russian publisher of educational literature and textbooks.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos made the Guardian Media 100, in a quiet year for publishers and authors on the list.

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