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Exclusive bookshop editions, a Hachette author tour and
national comic workshops are among the festivities lined up for this year’s
Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) - a celebration of independent bookshops.
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Waterstones m.d. James Daunt has said Amazon is undercutting
his business because of the “unconscionable” way it exploits the tax
system.
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Gillian Malpass, publisher for art and architecture at Yale
University Press London, has been made redundant following a restructure.
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Quercus has acquired the memoir of Lol
Tolhurst, one of the founding members of The Cure.
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Children’s book start-up Lost My Name has raised an additional
€4m (£3.2m) in funding from Berlin-based investor Project A Ventures.
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Internationally renowned pianist James Rhodes has
struck a two-book deal with Quercus, starting with a book that
will show how "anyone with two hands", and willing to
practice 45 minutes a day, can learn to play Bach's Prelude No. 1
in C Major in six weeks. He has previously been published by
Canongate.
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Sarah Odedina, the new editor-at-large at Pushkin Children’s,
is looking to build the children’s list through a new open submissions
initiative.
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HarperCollins UK finance director and company secretary, Ed
Kielbasiewicz, is to retire from the company at the end of December
2016.
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Ebury has bought rights to develop "Earl the Grump"
as a global brand.
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Bare Lit, a UK literature festival devoted to BAME
writers, is bringing out an anthology to allow "writers of
colour to shine on their own terms".
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Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s is set to publish a
series of books about Terraria, a video game that allows players to build
their own environment.
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HarperCollins is to publish a psychological thriller entitled Her Perfect Life by
Sam Hepburn.
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