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The newspapers’ books of the year round-ups yielded some
intriguing results, with Hisham Matar proving the most popular pick;
indie publishers taking a healthy share of the recommendations; and a
familiar tale being told regarding reviewers’ and writers’ diversity.
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Lee Child's Make
Me is the most popular title borrowed from public libraries
in 2016.
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Anna Rafferty is leaving Pottermore to join the BBC
Worldwide as its director of digital marketing.
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Salman Rushdie has put his name to an open letter,
alongside J M Coetzee, Margaret Atwood and Neil
Gaiman, calling on Chinese president Xi Jinping to reverse
his state crackdown on dissidents.
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Blackwell’s has made hires from Oxford University Press
and Taylor & Francis in a bid to “step up” activity on its
e-textbook platform Blackwell Learning.
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US scholarly publishing company HighWire Press has bought
Brighton-based technology and services company Semantico for an
undisclosed sum.
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Bob Dylan has said that it is “truly beyond words” to have
been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Amazon employees are being threatened with the sack if
they take four days off sick, even if they have permission from a
doctor, according to a Sunday
Times investigation.
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The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) has
reported a small increase in total annual sales revenue
for book publishers in Europe, based on a
survey with 28 national book publishing
associations in the European Union (EU) and the European
Economic Area (EEA), up from €22bn in 2014 to €22.3bn in
2015 (net turnover).
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The organisers of the Walter Scott Prize for historical
fiction have launched an academy to help find future winners.
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Travel writers, adventurers, novelists and broadcasters
join retailers and editors in the judging panels for the Edward
Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
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