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Book Trade News
Humble Bundle Model Coming To Ebooks Would you buy indie eBooks bundled together if you could help set the price for the digital books?
Old Favourite Still Topping The Shetland Books Bestseller List Long-time favourite The Shetland Bus, outstripped the opposition as the best-selling Shetland book during 2011
Altar Of Bones: A Literary Sensation – But Who Dunnit? What drives writers to hide behind a nom de plume?
Library Closures Inquiry Begins MPs have begun hearing evidence at a Select Committee inquiry on library closures
Michael Cunningham/Adam Mars-Jones Win Inaugural Hatchet Job Award Michael Cunningham's novel By Nightfall prompted 1,000-word demolition job in Observer by author and critic Adam Mars-Jones
Mackenzie Crook Up For Waterstones Children's Book Prize British actor Mackenzie Crook, best known for playing Gareth in The Office, has been shortlisted for this year's Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Would You Vote For A 13.5% Pay Cut? Life has become so tough for big printers like his that pay cuts are the only alternative to job cuts
Edwards Brothers, Malloy Merge Two of the USA's best known independent printers have announced a merger
CodeMantra Buys Prepress Firm Preparé Inc. CodeMantra has acquired Preparé Inc., a prepress and composition company with operations in US and Italy
Watermark Bookstore to open at Kings Cross station Lagardere owned, LS travel retail UK & Ireland to open stores at Cannon St and Kings Cross stations
New Team In Place At Weinstein Books Weinstein Books, which has been in limbo since last August finally has a new editorial team in place
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim At Hachette, e-books grew to make up six percent of total 2011 publishing sales
Academics Revolt Against Elsevier's Journal Pricing Analysts fear the movement could hit parent Reed Elsevier
Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile Low figures also go some way to explaining why certain businesses, like mobile advertising, are still not the money spinners you would expect them to be
Translation Prizes 2012 Two of this year's translation prizewinners were first published in their original languages in 1947
Former Agent To Launch International Organization For Self-published Authors Just in time for the spring book season, a non-profit organization for self-published authors is getting an international roll-ou
Lagardere To Take 2011 Impairment Loss Full-year revenue dropped 3.9 percent to 7.66 billion euros
Reading a book 'adds a year to children's education' Nick Gibb, the School Minister, said that reading books for just half an hour a day could be worth up to 12 months' extra schooling by the age of 15
Apple backpedals on iBooks Author selling restrictions Apple has made changes to the end user license agreement that covers its iBooks Author software, after critics hit out at constraints on distribution
Reading: Competition To Encourage Love Of Books Likely to focus on who can read the most
Empty shop numbers 'set to rise in 2012' The number of empty shops on UK High Streets is set to rise in 2012
Prince Charles To Lead Charles Dickens Celebrations The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will lead global celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth
Discoverability In The Digital Age How do people discover books in the digital age? The answer might surprise you.
Bleak News For Library Campaign Brent campaigners' final appeal to supreme court against halving the borough's provision will not be heard
Two More Giant Retailers Join Boycott Of Books Published By Amazon Books-A-Million and Canada's number one book retailer Chapters Indigo join boycott |
