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Publishers, authors and agents have said children’s book trade
personnel may have to choose between the London Book Fair (LBF) and the
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) next year, given their proximity of
their dates. BCBF 2016 is taking place on 4th–7th April; LBF is scheduled
to start just five days later (12th–14th April).
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Book sales at WH Smith fell by 4% like-for-like in the last
six months, but the group reported an overall rise in pre-tax profit of 4%
to £72m.
The general retail market for books is
"challenging", the company said in its half-yearly results to
28th February 2015, but WHS saw a "stronger December" than the
year before "with the quality of publishing still the biggest driver
of market performance."
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London Book Fair director Jacks Thomas noted some difficulties
with this year’s fair, bit said reaction to the move to Olympia was
“broadly positive”, while her “mantra” was soliciting opinion with a look
to improving LBF 2016.
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Atlantic Publishing has bought an “extraordinary memoir”, in
what is the company’s first six-figure deal since Allen & Unwin took full ownership of the house.
Publishing director Margaret Stead acquired UK and
Commonwealth rights in The
Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey by Gulwali
Passarlay from Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein, on behalf of Foundry.
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the "unusually
gripping" autobiography of footballer Didier Drogba.
Consultant editor Roddy Bloomfield signed world rights from
The Sports PR Company and David Luxton Associates.
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Novelist Alice Peterson has moved from Quercus to Simon &
Schuster in a six-figure deal.
S&S publishing director Jo Dickinson bought world rights
to two novels from The Agency Group’s Diana Beaumont, in the latter’s first
deal since joining the company from the Rupert Heath Literary Agency.
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Self-published authors should know their book’s market and
their “position in the industry” before pitching to retailers, panelists
said at yesterday’s How to Sell Your Book seminar. Retailers Henry Layte,
of The Book Hive in Norwich; Sheila O’Reilly, of Dulwich Books in London;
and Matt Bates, fiction buyer at W H Smith Travel told indie authors to
think about how their book looks and not to be arrogant when pitching it.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) is augmenting its support of The
Bookseller’s Rising Stars initiative with a new award programme for the
person who is named as the annual list’s Shooting Star.
Rising Stars is the yearly list of 40 “up and comers” in
the UK book trade, compiled and published by The Bookseller. The Shooting Star,
introduced last year, is bestowed on the person whom, in the opinion of the
judging panel, deserves particular recognition: last year it was Conville
& Walsh agent Sophie Lambert.
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Wiley c.e.o. and president Steve Smith
[pictured] has announced his retirement, with current chief operating
officer Mark Allin set to take over the role.
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Pan Macmillan will expand Book Break, its consumer-facing
book-based video brand, through collaboration with YouTube as it rolls out
a “broader digital video strategy across all of its publishing divisions”.
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James Daunt’s new model for Waterstones “demands collaboration
with publishers”, and the chain wants to be "more experimental",
said Sandra Taylor, its head of events and external relations, at the
London Book Fair.
Speaking yesterday (15th) at the seminar We Are All in it
Together: Collaborate or Compete? Taylor said: “James Daunt’s new business
model for Waterstones demands collaboration with publishers. Waterstones
has become more open to collaboration recently, but as a retailer we have
to be customer focused, and so that collaboration needs to benefit the
customer.”
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