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Publishers are celebrating Leicester City's rise from
underdogs to Premier League champions with a host of offerings,
including the "definitive" biography of manager Claudio Ranieri
from Yellow Jersey Press.
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Twelve vloggers have collectively racked up sales of more than
£15m in the UK in just 18 months, according to figures from Nielsen
BookScan.
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Booksellers have been lobbying publisher Little, Brown to
change the date of the release of the eighth Harry Potter story so that
chain stores can sell the book without breaking Sunday trading laws.
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Swedish audiobook business BookBeat, part of Bonnier Books,
could launch in the UK ahead of Storytel, Sweden's largest audiobook
business.
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Pearson has been forced to defend its business strategy at its
a.g.m, with shareholders voicing their anger over the decline in the
company's share price. However, c.e.o John Fallon has vowed "we will
get Pearson growing again".
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There has been a "significant" decrease in public
library usage over the last nine years with usage falling from 14.3
percentage points since 2005, new figures have revealed.
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Children’s author Michael Morpurgo has written a fairytale for
BBC Radio 4 about Leicester City winning the football Premier League,
suggesting the club had a helping hand from King Richard III, whose remains
were found in a car park in the city in 2012.
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Attorneys for Georgia State University have appealed for
publishers who brought a copyright suit against them to pay more than $3.3m
in fees and costs, following their legal win in the long-running case.
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Bloomsbury is partnering YA authors with booktubers (vloggers
who talk about books on YouTube) for a new anthology.
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Barrington Stoke has acquired two books by Phil Earle: Mind the Gap, a
novella for teen readers; and Superdad’s
Day Off, an adventure story for readers aged five to eight.
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Independent publisher Red Button Publishing has announced it
will cease operations from June 2016.
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Patrick Ness and Lewis MacDougall, the actor playing the lead
role in the upcoming film adaptation of Ness' A Monster Calls, will be appearing at
this year’s Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC).
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