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Macmillan celebrates 175 years of publishing Macmillan is celebrating 175 years of publishing in 2018 with an initiative for independent booksellers, roundtable events and the reissue of "one of the most successful anthologies in literary history".

Nosy Crow scoops five nominations for IPG Awards Nosy Crow and Bloomsbury dominate the IPG Independent Publishing Awards shortlist,s alongside various radical publishers such as Verso and Zed Books.

Waterstones still 'committed' to Oxfam following sex scandal Waterstones has said it remains a committed partner of Oxfam "at this point" following accusations of sexual misconduct concerning some members of the charity's Haiti staff in the aftermath of the country's earthquake in 2011.

HarperCollins' group sales director Wright leaves HarperCollins’ group sales director Oliver Wright has left the company with immediate effect.

Mystery publisher's thriller snapped up worldwide Harvill Secker has paid a six-figure sum for a thriller written by "a member of the publishing workforce" under the pseudonym Jessica Barry.

Kolman: 'publishers should shout more about innovation' The International Publishers Association president Michiel Kolman has called on publishers to "shout more" about how they are innovating, rather than leave it to the global technology companies to claim that space.

Orion pre-empts Chbosky's second novel within 24-hours Orion has pre-empted a new novel from Hollywood director, screenwriter and author Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend, for a "significant" six-figure sum.

China's 2017 book sales up nearly 15% China's book market boom continued last year, with data monitoring service OpenBook putting the total printed book sales value for 2017 at Rmb80.3bn (£9.23bn), up 14.6% on 2016's total.

Sittenfeld, O'Neill and July make Sunday Times Short Story Award longlist Female and American writers, including Curtis Sittenfeld and Miranda July, dominate the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award longlist with themes including ‘Trumpism’, the refugee crisis and Artificial Intelligence.

Burningham reveals sequel to Would You Rather John Burningham is working on a sequel to Would You Rather, his bestselling picture book released 40 years ago.

Campaign raises £25k to give The Lost Words to Scottish primary schools A campaigner has crowdfunded more than £25,000 to give a copy of The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House) by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris to every primary school in Scotland.

Egmont signs four more from Woodfine Egmont has bought four historical adventure stories by Katherine Woodfine, featuring the main characters from her previous series, The Sinclair’s Mysteries.