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PRH launches 'inclusion tracker' to measure diversity Penguin Random House UK is launching an "Inclusion Tracker" to measure the diversity of its authors and staff in the pursuit of a new company-wide goal to "reflect UK society by 2025".

Pottermore to allow free e-book library loans Pottermore will make J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone e-book available to UK library users over a two-week period to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication.

Tony Walsh sales soar after Manchester performance Sales of Tony Walsh’s first poetry collection have almost doubled in the few weeks since he gave a rousing spoken word performance at a vigil following the terror attack at Manchester Arena on 22nd May.

‘Group action needed to safeguard the academic book’, warns report Publishers and academics must work together to solve the problems that have led to rising book numbers, but falling sales per title, before the viability of academic book publishing is called into question, the Academic Book of the Future policy report has warned.

Cameron speaks at Quiller book launch Scores of Etonians including former prime minister David Cameron gathered at Christie’s auction house in London for the launch of The Enigma of Kidson: Portrait of an Eton Schoolmaster by Jamie Blackett.

The Book People acquires gift company Qwerkity The Book People has acquired gift company Qwerkity, heralding its “natural” expansion into the gift market.

University of Derby launches Peregrine Publishing The University of Derby has launched an in-house publishing imprint, Peregrine Publishing, which will be partly run and administered by its own postgraduate and undergraduate publishing students.

'Haunting' US border control memoir to Bodley Head The Bodley Head is publishing the memoir of a former US border patrol agent, Francisco Cantú, to explore the politics and experience of gatekeepers and victims on both sides of the US-Mexican border.

K J Orr on all-female Edge Hill shortlist Daisy Johnson’s East Anglian-inspired Fen (Cape) and Lucy Caldwell’s exploration of womanhood, Multitudes (Faber), are both on the all-female shortlist for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize up against 2016 BBC National Short Story Award winner K J Orr for Light Box (Daunt).

Headline scores memoir of footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa Headline has acquired the memoir of football striker Adebayo Akinfenwa, better known to fans by his nickname The Beast.

Douglas departs Barrington Stoke Nina Douglas, publicist at accessible children's publisher Barrington Stoke, is leaving to go freelance.

IPR License launches online 'Buy Rights' button Rights and licensing trading platform IPR License has launched a new service which allows sellers to place “Buy Rights” buttons next to books featured online.