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Rowling, Donaldson and James enter Nielsen 'Bestseller Hall of Fame' Authors including J K Rowling, E L James and Julia Donaldson have made Nielsen Book’s first Bestseller Hall of Fame, as their titles are amongst those which reached platinum sales records.

Fallon admits 'we got it wrong' as Pearson shares plunge Pearson's c.e.o. John Fallon has been forced to defend his position after admitting the company "got it wrong" last year, resulting in revisions to its 2017 forecast and dividend, and the withdrawal of its ambitious £800m profit target for 2018.

Irish book community 'dismayed' over library tender Irish bookselling and literary organisations have protested the passing of a new national library tender for books, 60% of which has been awarded to suppliers outside the country.

Berger, Said and Greer on ABW's 'books that shaped Britain' list The late art critic John Berger's Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics), first published in 1972, Edward Said’s 1978 study Orientalism (also Penguin Modern Classics) and Germaine Greer’s 1970 feminist study The Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) are among the list of the 20 “academic books that shaped modern Britain” unveiled for Academic Book Week next week.

Spanton joins Unbound as it moves into genre publishing Former Gollancz associate publisher Simon Spanton is joining crowd-funding company Unbound as it moves into genre publishing.

Pan Mac strengthens comms team with two senior appointments Pan Macmillan is strengthening its fiction communications team with two senior appointments, separating out commercial fiction and brands from literature and partnerships.

Mushens strikes first six figure deal at new agency for Claire Douglas Michael Joseph has acquired two new thrillers by Claire Douglas for six figures in what is also the first deal for Juliet Mushens at her new agency CaskieMushens.

Packed launch for The Booksellers Network Over 50 booksellers from as far away as Cumbria gathered in London last night for the launch of The Booksellers Network.

Pearson to slash e-book rental prices by 50% in digital push Pearson plans to launch its own print rental program for courseware and reduce e-book rental prices by up to 50% as it bids to accelerate its shift to digital.

Exclusive Books strikes e-book deal with Kobo Exclusive Books has struck a deal to direct its customers to the Kobo website to buy e-books.

Bohme and Corcut to keynote LBF’s Quantum Conference Steve Bohme, research director at Nielsen Book Research UK and Sophie Corcut from retail trends consultancy GDR Creative Intelligence will keynote this year’s Quantum Conference at London Book Fair (LBF).