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Trade figures call for collaborative campaign to promote books and reading Leading figures have urged the publishing industry to pool its data and money to create a cross-industry campaign about the value of books and reading.

Two new Harry Potter books for British Library exhibition Bloomsbury and Pottermore will publish two new books this autumn for the British Library exhibition “Harry Potter: A History of Magic”, opening on 20th October.

John Green to tackle mental illness in October novel Six years after his huge hit The Fault in Our Stars, author John Green will bring out a new novel, Turtles All the Way Down, in October.

Elsevier awarded $15m from Sci-Hub in copyright case The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has welcomed a US court ruling awarding publisher Elsevier $15m in damages for copyright infringements.

Barry praises the importance of bookshops after winning IBW award Sebastian Barry has said that bookshops have taken a “quantum leap” of importance in this “strange new world” upon winning the Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) award.

Literature Wales raises 'serious concerns' about government review Literature Wales has raised “serious concerns” regarding the Welsh Publishing and Literature Review released last week after it was accused of being “inward looking” and “uncertain as to its proper purpose”.

Henry Blofeld memoir to Hodder Hodder & Stoughton has revealed it has bought world rights to Henry Blofeld’s memoir on the same day the cricket broadcasting legend has announced his retirement.

Radio 2’s Haddow to launch Book Off! podcast BBC Radio 2 producer Joe Haddow will next week launch a podcast called “Book Off!”, in which authors, comedians and figures from the music and film worlds will argue the case for one book that is of importance to them.

Headline acquires The Crystal Maze Challenge Headline has acquired The Crystal Maze Challenge, the first official tie-in to the new series of the cult Channel 4 quiz show "The Crystal Maze", to publish on 19th October.

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy get fresh designs MacLehose Press is reissuing books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy to complement the jacket of The Girl in the Spider’s Web.

Amazon mines sales data for Harry Potter trends Nobody wants to be in the Harry Potter House Hufflepuff, Amazon made it official today, as it released fresh data about the UK’s buying habits of all things Potter.