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Touchpress pivots business, selling education apps App developer Touchpress is to make a major shift to its business, including selling off the bulk of its education and literary apps, as it moves away from the paid-for app model and looks to brand sponsorship for its future.

Hachette UK sales up 1.2% in third quarter Hachette has reported a "good 2015 so far" with sales in its third quarter "considerably up" on last year, helped by its acquisitions of Quercus and Nicholas Brealey.

Darwin's 'Origin' voted Most Influential Academic Book Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been voted the most influential academic book in history, in a public vote held to mark Academic Book Week.

Galbraith and McEwan longlisted for Impac prize Ian McEwan, David Mitchell and Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling's pseudonym) are among the 25 British authors competing for this year's €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.

Harry Potter Night 2016 to focus on spells Harry Potter Book Night 2016 promises to be “bigger and better” than last year, this time with a focus on spells.

Sevenoaks Bookshop sold to bookseller Sevenoaks Bookshop has been sold to bookseller and budding author Fleur Sinclair.

Penguin Life signs book on handling pressure Penguin Life is to publish a book on handling pressure by a coach of rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.

Slack wins biennial Samuel Pepys Award Oxford professor and author Paul Slack has won the Samuel Pepys Award 2015 for The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford University Press).

Talking Books now free to access The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has made Talking Books free for all blind and partially sighted people to access from today.

Saltire Publisher of the Year shortlist unveiled The 2015 Saltire Publisher of the Year shortlist has been revealed, featuring two past winners and three Edinburgh-based publishing houses.

Apatow's Sick in the Head to Duckworth Gerald Duckworth & Co. Publishers has acquired Sick in the Head by award winning Hollywood director, writer and producer Judd Apatow.

Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Award shortlist revealed Sunjeev Sahota and Sara Taylor are among the four authors who have made the shortlist for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.