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APA completes buy of Rough Guides, promising 'revitalisation' The sale of Rough Guides from Penguin Random House to APA Publications has been completed, with APA c.e.o. René Frey promising a "revitalisation" of the brand.

SoA urges Freight liquidator to revert authors' rights The Society of Authors has urged the liquidator in control of Freight Books to revert the rights of its authors, arguing that the publisher is in breach of contract. But Ian Wright, m.d. of WRI Associates, has said the company is not yet in liquidation and contracts have not yet been terminated.

Weekly E-Ranking: La Belle Sauvage becomes first children's number one Philip Pullman's La Belle Sauvage is the first Children’s title in Weekly E-Book Ranking history to go to number one.

HarperCollins selected for list of best BAME employers HarperCollins has been included on the inaugural list of the UK’s best employers for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people compiled by charity Business in the Community.

Stress-test innovative ideas at FutureBook The founders of agency ThinkSprint, Sam Reid and Scott Morrison, are to run a live session at the FutureBook Conference where they will examine three innovation ideas crowdsourced from the book trade.

Saunders, Atwood and Adichie make plea for poet's freedom More than 50 prominent authors, including Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders, have signed a letter to President Xi Jinping calling for the release of Liu Xia, widow of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

'Stellar' buys for Walker include Morpurgo and Almond Walker Books has revealed a “stellar” line-up of acquisitions including the latest collaboration from David Almond and Dave McKean, a new standalone version of a previously published story from Michael Morpurgo, and Eoin Colfer's first book for the indie publisher.

Transworld pre-empts 'extraordinary' memoir by Julie Yip-Williams Transworld has acquired rights in a "significant" pre-empt to an untitled memoir by first-time author Julie Yip-Williams, "a powerful book about living".

Seven Dials ushers in Gene Eating Orion imprint Seven Dials is moving on from "clean eating" by publishing Gene Eating, a "pioneering" debut by Cambridge geneticist Dr Giles Yeo, also a presenter for "BBC Horizon".

Poetry Book Society adds 'Wild Card' selection The Poetry Book Society has added a new Wild Card category to its poetry selections in order to include the "radical, experimental and avant-garde".