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Richard Charkin on China, copyright and freedom to publish.
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A number of Welsh writers and publishers have condemned
proposals to slash £374,000 from the Welsh Books Council budget, calling
the move "unjust" and amounting to "self-sabotage".
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Penguin Random House UK is removing any requirement for a
university degree for all new jobs to attract a “more varied candidate
pool” in order to “publish the best books that appeal to readers
everywhere”.
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Possession author A S Byatt has won the €150,000
(£114,000) Erasmus Prize, given every year to a person or institution that
has made an exceptional contribution to the humanities or arts.
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Daunt Books is to open its first branch outside London in
April.
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Reading charity BookTrust has appointed Phil Earle as it new
writer-in-residence.
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Authors have continued to express their support for a campaign
to boycott literary festivals which do not pay authors for appearances.
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Exclusive Books has redesigned its flagship Johannesburg
store, with the result breaking “the shackles and restraints of the
chain-store mentality” in order to make books “sexy” again.
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Hot Key Books has confirmed that Juno Dawson’s backlist
titles, printed with the author’s previous name, James Dawson, will remain
in circulation until they come up for reprint.
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The department for media, culture and sport is to appoint a
new chair of Arts Council England when Sir Peter Bazalgette ends his term
next year.
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Quercus has signed the sequel to Neil Spring’s paranormal
thriller debut The Ghost
Hunters, which was recently adapted into an ITV drama.
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Orion publishing director Juliet Ewers has been promoted
to the newly created position of group associate publisher.
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