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Publishing chief executives have been urged to spend a day
working on the bookshop floor by the new president of the Booksellers
Association.
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Shop-floor booksellers are being invited to join a new group
called The Booksellers Network, which has been backed by significant
players from across the industry.
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The Booksellers Association is set to launch a new book prize
to coincide with the annual Books Are My Bag campaign, asking readers to
vote for their favourite books of the year across five
categories.
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Matt Hancock, newly appointed minister of state for
digital and culture, has said he will back the UK's creative
industries "to the hilt", in recognition that the sector is
"absolutely central to our post-Brexit future".
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Headline is to publish Instagram chef Miguel
Barclay's One Pound
Meals following a "mind-blowingly passionate and
frenetic" week-long auction.
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Jilly Cooper's bestselling Rutshire Chronicles novels are
to be adapted for the small screen in a new "high-end drama"
series for ITV, called "Riders".
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Chris Brookmyre has won the £1,000 McIlvanney Prize,
previously known as the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, presented at the
Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.
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Difficulties with finances and heavy workloads have sounded
the death knell for micro-publishers Jurassic London and Boo Books, while
fellow mini press Gray Friar Press has also shuttered. However, all three
have maintained that micro-publishing plays a vital role in the health of
the industry.
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Seemingly at a loss as to how to cost-effectively translate
and market its popular manga literature overseas, one Tokyo startup is
betting on crowd-sourced funding as the answer.
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Penguin Random House UK has launched its first Ladybird
education series for the English Language Teaching (ELT) market, Ladybird
Readers.
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Labour MP Rachel Reeves is to publish a political biography of
Alice Bacon, the first woman to represent Leeds in the House of Commons,
with I B Tauris.
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