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Waterstones to open five shops before Christmas Waterstones is to open five new bookshops before Christmas – with three named after the area they are based in the spirit of an independent bookshop.

Pearson to sell Wall Street English for $300m Pearson has agreed to sell its English language business Wall Street English (WSE) to a group of funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital for $300 (£225m).

Newspaper investigation reveals 'intolerable' working conditions at Amazon warehouse "Exhausted" staff at Amazon are being taken away in ambulances and falling asleep on their feet due to intense pressure to meet warehouse targets, an investigation by the Mirror has claimed.

Walker's Amelia Edwards dies aged 77 The founding art director of Walker Books, Amelia Edwards, who helped create Five Minutes’ Peace and Owl Babies, has died.

BBC snaps up Dooley's debut BBC Books will publish BBC presenter Stacey Dooley’s debut about "extraordinary women".

Weldon 'sick' at lack of working class people in publishing Penguin Random House chief executive Tom Weldon has urged the industry to respond to the "really urgent commercial imperative" of reflecting working class experiences in books.

Weekly E-Ranking: The Midnight Line strikes one Lee Child’s The Midnight Line has easily topped the Weekly E-Book Ranking, shunting last week’s pole, Michael Connelly’s Two Kinds of Truth, down to fourth.

Wilson presented with the Special Award at Children's BAFTAs Dame Jacqueline Wilson has won the Special Award for her “outstanding contribution to children’s media” at the British Academy Children’s Awards.

Lily Pebbles' The F Word to Hodder Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a "personal celebration" of female friendship by lifestyle content creator Lily Pebbles.

Three win BAMB's #OneInAMillion competition Customers nominating The Book Case in Hebden Bridge, One Tree Books in Petersfield and Waterstones in Guildford have won prizes as part of the Books are My Bag #OneInAMillion competition.

Keith Stuart signs with Sphere for two more Sphere has signed two more books by Keith Stuart, bestselling author of A Boy Made of Blocks (Sphere).

Eighty-six-year-old shortlisted for Manchester Writing Competition An 86-year-old former Town Hall clerk and an organiser of the Milton Keynes Festival are among those shortlisted in the Manchester Writing Competition.