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Pearson retained its position as the biggest publisher in the
world for the eighth consecutive year in the Global Ranking of the
Publishing Industry 2016 which, despite the number one publisher’s slump,
also showed ongoing growth of the top end of the list.
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Footfall at shops across the UK fell over the Bank Holiday
weekend, but several independent bookshops have reported an increase in
sales, with more visitors than usual.
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The German Publishers and Booksellers Association has joined
with freedom of speech organistations to launch an online petition calling
on the German government and EU Commission to make an “uncompromising
commitment” to freedom of expression in Turkey.
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Oxford Dictionaries has closed its survey for the least
popular English word a day after it was launched due to “severe misuse” of
the feature.
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Renowned English language bookshop Shakespeare and Company,
situated on Paris's Left Bank, is marking its 65th anniversary by
publishing an illustrated history of the shop.
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National Poetry Day this year will see community groups come
together for a "mass outbreak of verse" on Thursday 6th October,
when railway stations, coffee shops, police forces, schoolchildren and
scientists all rise to the challenge to “say it with a poem”.
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Linda Duncan McLaughlin has won the 2016 Goat Bursary created
by author Joanna Cannon (pictured) and agent Sue Armstrong.
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First-time children’s novelist Elizabeth Ezra has won this
year’s Kelpies Prize for new Scottish writing for children.
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