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The European Commission has released a new raft of proposals
for copyright reform as part of its Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy,
with one clause suggesting that authors should have the opportunity to
renegotiate contracts where renumeration is “disproportionately low”
relative to publishers’ revenues.
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Literary agent Ed Victor is representing former prime minister
David Cameron as he reportedly looks to strike a lucrative deal for
his memoirs.
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Faber has acquired
Conversations with Friends, a "startling" and
"intimate" debut novel from Sally Rooney, after a seven-way
auction.
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Penguin Random House is publishing former One Direction
star Zayn Malik's autobiography on 1st November.
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Penguin General hosted its authors at the Library Club on St
Martins Lane, who personally introduced their books for Spring 2017 in a
series of five-minute readings.
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Virgin Books is publishing a new book from Guy Martin in
October entitled Worms
to Catch, about how "Britiain's favourite daredevil"
spent his free time in 2016 after he was forced him to take a
break from road racing.
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Technologies involving big data analysis are becoming so cheap
to work with that academic publishers should be innovating in the area even
if they are unsure what they are looking to create, Sage's Ian Mulvany told
the Association of Learned and Professional Publishers conference.
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Bloomsbury has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Norse Mythology, a
retelling of the Norse myths by Neil Gaiman.
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The Reading Agency is launching a project to provide reading
activities for older people thanks to a £2.1m grant from the Big Lottery
Fund.
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Canongate has acquired Heather,
The Totality, the debut novel by Matthew Weiner, writer and
creator of "Mad Men" and executive producer of "The
Sopranos".
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Viking is publishing a memoir by Nicola Adams, twice Olympic
and world champion boxer.
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Athens has been named World Book Capital 2018 by the
director general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.
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