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Cursed Child playscript sells 680,000 in UK in three days The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript has sold 680,000 print copies in the UK in its first three days of sale – making it the fastest-selling book in a decade.

Flat sales and profit at CUP Cambridge University Press sales dropped very marginally to £268.8m in the year ended April 2016, according to its latest annual report (£169.1m in 2015), with growth levels falling back from a 5% revenue rise the year before.

Academics unite to condemn YUPL redundancies A letter to the senior management of Yale University Press strongly criticising the decision of Yale University Press London to make editors Gillian Malpass and Sally Salvesen redundant has been signed by more than 320 academics from 77 universities and 30 museums and institutions across nine countries.

Waterstones: four board members step down Waterstones has reduced the size of its board by four with its owner Alexander Mamut saying the chain is now “financially strong and poised for future growth”.

Cursed Child waits in the wings as The Girl on the Train thunders on The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has held the UK Official number one spot for a fifth non-consecutive week, the longest-running fiction number one since E L James’ Grey (Arrow).

Earle made m.d. of Bloomsbury Digital Resources Bloomsbury has appointed Kathryn Earle as managing director of its Digital Resources Division.

Nosy Crow to launch classics list Nosy Crow is launching a classics list, starting with a new edition of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.

Amazon rapped by watchdog over 'misleading' delivery charges The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped Amazon for misleading delivery charges to customers and ordered the e-commerce giant to clarify them.

Redknapp shares management 'wisdom' in new title Veteran football manager Harry Redknapp is penning a new book for Ebury bringing together “all the hard-fought wisdom gained from a lifetime of successes and failures in football”.

Gibson and Penn to star in film about the creation of OED Actors Mel Gibson and Sean Penn are to star in "Professor and the Madman", a film adaptation of a novel about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Dead Ink seeks submissions for 'working class anthology' Independent publisher Dead Ink Books is to publish a book of essays written by working class authors in a bid to "challenge preconceptions" following the "messy" EU referendum vote.

GBBO colouring book coming this autumn Hodder & Stoughton is publishing two Great British Bake Off tie-in titles this autumn: Great British Bake Off: Perfect Cakes & Bakes to Make at Home, the official companion cookbook; and The Great British Bake Off Colouring Book.