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Sales of World Book Day (WBD) titles soared by more than
50% in comparison to last year, with 469,274 copies in total shifted
in the week of the event, sales figures have shown.
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Penguin Michael Joseph has announced a new tranche of Ladybird
Books for Grown-ups titles, including The Ladybird Book of The New You, The Ladybird Book of Balls,
and The Ladybird Book
of The Ex.
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The Creative Industries Federation has published a new report
advising a range of practical recommendations to improve the working lives
of freelancers, whom it argues are "vital but undervalued” in the
creative industries.
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Kate Beal, formerly sales director at Oneworld, has left the
company and, in partnership with her sister Sarah Beal, acquired Muswell
Press.
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Iain Dale, m.d. of Biteback Publishing, has acquired world
rights to a "major" new book by Labour MP Angela Eagle and former
political advisor Imran Ahmed.
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Usborne has snapped up a Russian folklore-inspired middle
grade fantasy following a “hotly contested four-way auction”.
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George Andreou has been appointed as director of the Harvard
University Press after 27 years at Knopf.
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Poet Kate Wakeling has won this year's CLiPPA award for
children's poetry for her debut collection Moon Juice, published by indie The Emma
Press.
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Scribe UK has acquired three new titles from its existing
authors Marina Benjamin, Jeremy Gavron and Tommy Wieringa.
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Penguin Random House Children’s is publishing a fans’ guide to
the 2018 World Cup with football fan network Copa90.
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Research communications platform Kudos is to run a pilot
programme aimed at helping find ways to tackle the issue of copyright
infringement on scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs) while still
embracing academics' wish to increase the visibility of their work.
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