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Small publishers protest 'elitist' Women's Prize fees Small publishers have expressed anger and dismay over “extortionate” fees charged to enter the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which they believe risk the coveted award becoming “elitist” and exclusionary.

Deep discounting debate intensifies at BA conference The debate around steep discounting intensified at the Booksellers Association Conference, with retailers lamenting that the trend is causing the industry to “haemorrhage profit”.

Fourth Estate scoops footprints book in five-publisher auction Fourth Estate won a “heated” five-publisher auction for a book by a university lecturer about "the marks we are making on the planet".

US publishers' audio sales up 29% this year Downloaded audio revenues in the US rose 29% in the first four months of this year by comparison to the same period in 2016, with April in particular surging to a 34% year-on-year rise, according to the latest figures from the Association of American Publishers.

BBC's Speirs to headline IPG autumn conference BBC Radio 4’s Di Speirs is one of the headline speakers appearing at the Independent Publishers Guild’s fully-booked autumn conference which will also feature a new partnership with the Booksellers Association.

Bear Grylls’ How To Stay Alive to Transworld Transworld Publishers has acquired survival expert and TV personality Bear Grylls’ new book, How To Stay Alive, a compendium of lessons he has learnt on his adventures across the globe.

PRH hosts 50 aspiring writers Penguin Random House hosted 50 aspiring authors at its offices on the Strand for a free day of advice and talks about how to get published.

Treger's 'enthralling' snake tattoo novel to Bloomsbury Bloomsbury has bought a new book from Louisa Treger about a woman “with a dramatic snake tattooed on her leg and a mysterious past”.

Memoir of an 'untouchable' Indian family to Daunt Books Daunt Books Publishing has acquired the memoir Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla, a New York subway conductor who was born an "untouchable" in India.

Viking to publish William Trevor's 'Last Stories' Viking is publishing 10 "exquisite" stories by the late William Trevor - six of them for the first time - in a new book called Last Stories.

Harlequin buys three books from Morgan HarperCollins division Harlequin has acquired three “stand-alone multi-generation women’s fiction” books by romance author Sarah Morgan.

TLS and Arts Council back Republic of Consciousness Prize The Times Literary Supplement has become the official media partner of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses.