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Bloomsbury grew
revenues by 15% to £142.6m in the 12 months
to the end of Feburary 2017, in what chief executive Nigel
Newton has branded "a very strong year" for the
company.
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The Book People returned to profit in 2016, two years
after venture capital company Endless made a £10-£20m investment to
acquire co-founder Ted Smart's share.
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The Society of Authors is calling on publishers to consider
the impact that bulk “special sales” deals are having on both author and
publisher earnings.
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Amazon has launched Prime Reading in the UK for the first
time.
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Helen Fielding's Bridget
Jones’s Baby: The Diaries (Vintage) has won the
2017 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, making it third
time lucky for the author.
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Usborne has bought a middle grade magical fantasy from a
former gaming programmer following a “hotly contested auction” against
three other publishers.
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Penguin Random House Children’s will publish a sequel to Clare
Balding’s debut novel, The
Racehorse Who Wouldn’t Gallop, inspired by
the kidnap of Derby winner Shergar.
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Foyles bookshop and Penguin Random House are partnering to run
a "takeover" in Foyles’ flagship shop on Charing Cross Road.
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Francoise Nyssen, chief executive officer of French publisher
Actes Sud, has been appointed culture minister in Prime Minister Edouard
Philippe’s new government.
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Ronnie Fairweather, creative director at Penguin Random House
Children’s, is retiring after nearly 30 years with the publisher.
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Thriller author Kathryn Croft has sold one million copies of
her e-book titles, according to publisher Bookouture.
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The shortlist of the second Klaus Flugge Prize reveals a
global line-up of American and British publishers with
illustrators also from Korea and Italy.
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