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Booksellers say they are enjoying a “bumper summer”, with the
release of Harper Lee's Go
Set a Watchman encouraging people to “re-engage with books and
bookshops again.”
James Daunt, m.d of Waterstones, said the release of the
William Heinnemann title last month had injected life into the chain’s
shops, with book sales up across the board.
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Revenues for Simon and Schuster's global operations dropped
5.7% year on year in the second quarter of 2015, its parent company
CBS has reported. The total for the quarter stood at $199m, a drop of $12m.
However operating income was $25m, up 9% from $23m in the
second quarter of 2014, with CBS saying that the “revenue decline was more
than offset by lower production and distribution costs”.
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Amazon UK has extended Prime Now, which allows customers to
receive goods within one hour of purchasing, to Birmingham and the
surrounding areas.
From today (6th August), shoppers in Birmingham, and towns
such as Lichfield, Cannock and Tamworth, can benefit from the super-fast
delivery times if they are members of Amazon Prime, a £79-per-year service
that offers members benefits such as money-off deals and unlimited
streaming of TV shows.
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Writer Catherine Nichols has revealed that she received eight
times as many responses by sending out her manuscript to agents under a
man’s name than when sending it out under her own name.
In an essay
for Jezebel, Nichols said she sent query letters to 50 agents under her
own name, receiving only two manuscript requests.
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Amazon has released a list of its best-selling Kindle books
over the last five years in the UK, with Fifty Shades writer EL James
topping the e-book chart.
Amazon has released the data to mark five years today (5th
August) since it opened the Kindle Store in the UK.
EL James’ original Fifty
Shades of Grey (Arrow) title was the best-selling e-book on the
Amazon.co.uk platform (released April 2012) with her follow-up in the
trilogy, Fifty Shades
Darker, ranking second and the third instalment Fifty Shades Freed
coming in fourth.
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Science fiction and fantasy publisher Gollancz has partnered
with London's Prince Charles cinema and mobile video game library the
Gamer’s Bus on the second Gollancz Festival.
The festival takes place at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate
on 16th October and Waterstones Piccadilly in London on 17th October, with
events online on both days.
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HarperCollins crime and thriller publisher Julia Wisdom has
bought a "deeply disturbing" psychological suspense novel by
Camilla Way [pictured], Watching
Edie McCrae.
Wisdom bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in
the novel, plus a further book, from Hellie Ogden at Janklow & Nesbit.
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Bloomsbury is publishing the debut graphic novel by British
cartoonist and teacher Rachael Ball, The
Inflatable Woman (October, £18.99).
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