Latest News from The London Book Fair - Day 3

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PRH signs deals with Mofibo and Scribd Penguin Random House UK is to make "thousands" of English-language audiobook titles available to Mofibo subscribers in Denmark and Sweden. Meanwhile Penguin Random House Audio will also make 9,000 audiobooks available via subscription service Scribd, predominantly in the US. Philip Gwyn Jones warns on 'internecine' book wars The shift to social reading is “liable to consign the traditional publisher and many a writer to decline and defeat in the Civil War for Books”, Philip Gwyn Jones is to say today (16th April), with the reader becoming the prize. In a speech at the London Book Fair this afternoon, Gwyn Jones will say that the book itself “will become less commercially valuable than the details around its sales transaction – when it was done, where it was done, amongst what other activities, alongside what other purchases”. Gollancz in rights flurry Gollancz has acquired two “controversial, postmodern satirical” novels by Victor Pelevin, who won the Russian Little Booker Prize, which is awarded to genre writing, in 1993 for his short-story collection The Blue Lantern.

Twenty7 buys for Bonnier Twenty7 Books, Bonnier’s début-only adult fiction imprint, has revealed its first acquisitions. The list will publish exclusively in e-book first, with mass-market paperbacks released around six months later. Transworld tops at brain auction A groundbreaking look into how adolescent brain development “determines the people we become” was won by Transworld’s Susanna Wadeson after a 12-publisher auction. Taschen turns 35 with new Bibliotheca editions To mark its 35th birthday, Taschen will publish new editions of its popular Bibliotheca Universalis titles. OUP Children’s looks to cook up Creative ideas OUP Children’s is hoping to retain rights and work more closely with authors by developing book ideas through its new Creative Kitchen. Publisher Liz Cross said that rather than acquire completed manuscripts, she will look to develop story ideas with authors—often débuts—for books to publish through the initiative. Canongate acquires Dromgoole and more Thomas Canongate has signed world rights in a book by Globe Theatre artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, charting the experience of staging Shakespeare's Hamlet around the world.