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Booksellers split on likely Christmas Number One Booksellers are divided on whether David Walliams' The Midnight Gang (HarperCollins) will hang on to the charts top spot through to Christmas or whether a final surge from Five on Brexit Island (Quercus) or even The GCHQ Puzzle Book (Michael Joseph) will help one of them claim the festive Number One spot in their stores.

Amazon begins UK drone deliveries Amazon has begun using drones to deliver parcels to customers in the UK, in a limited trial.

Petition to save Creative Access gets swell of support A petition launched to save diversity charity Creative Access from closure has secured more than 2,100 signatures, including from many high-profile industry figures.

English PEN reports 'challenging year' English PEN has reported a deficit of close to £90,00 in its annual report for the year ending 31st March 2016, describing it as "a challenging year".

William Heinemann wins auction for book on racial bias William Heinemann has acquired Biased: The New Science of Race and Inequality by social psychologist Dr Jennifer Eberhardt at auction.

Pearson shares learning design under creative commons license Pearson is making its Learning Design Principles (LDPs) publicly available under a creative commons license to "broaden the conversation" on the learning principles that should form the basis for educational products.

Baltic Countries are focus of LBF 2018 The London Book Fair (LBF) 2018 will take place 10th - 12th April 2018, with Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania picked as the market focuses.

New analysis shows extent of England's library book spend drop Book spend for libraries in England has fallen by £35m since 2005, while book lending to adults and children has declined by 36.5% and 21% respectively in the last five years, new analysis from library campaigner and former Watersones' m.d. Tim Coates has revealed.

Kate Williams to chair Costa Book of the Year judges Author, historian and broadcaster Professor Kate Williams has been selected to chair the nine-member judging panel that selects the overall winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year.

OUP Children's to publish Tony De Saulles series Oxford University Press (OUP) Children’s has acquired a fiction series by Tony De Saulles, the illustrator of Scholastic’s Horrible Histories series.

A History Of Hair to Penguin Press Penguin Press has acquired Emma Dabiri’s debut A History Of Hair, a book promising to be "an inspiring personal and critical account of the history of Afro hair".

Troika acquires YA holocaust novel Independent publisher Troika Books has bought a YA novel about Hitler’s attempted extermination of the Roma and Sinti people.