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Search Press and Nosy Crow were both double winners at the
Independent Publishers Guild Independent Publishing Awards 2015.
Winners of the 13 categories were announced at a gala dinner
hosted by author and publisher John Mitchinson at the IPG spring conference
last night (5th March).
Search Press was named IPG Specialist Consumer Publisher of
the Year, and also went on to win the Fox Williams Independent Publisher of
the Year, and award chosen from the winners of the five publishing category
winners.
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Academic publishers will put bookshops out of business if they
continue to target universities and students with “aggressive” direct sales
marketing, the chairman of the Booksellers Association’s Academic Committee
has warned.
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Kate Manning has left her role as sales and marketing manager
of Hot Key Books.
Manning confirmed she had left the company to The Bookseller, but
would not give any more information.
A spokesperson for Bonnier, which owns Hot Key, would not
confirm if Manning had been made redundant, but said her role was “being
absorbed into the Bonnier publishing group’s sales force, which is led by
Helen Bower”.
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Waterstones shops should be "significantly more
entrepreneurial than they are at the moment", James Daunt has said.
Speaking on a panel at the IPG spring conference about chain
bookshops, alongside Blackwell's David Prescott, Daunt said that the
"point at which we become more confident in retailing, bookselling,
and our shops has begun" but that many people at Waterstones were
still "immersed in the culture which is central direction".
"As much as we encourage it, booksellers in Waterstones
are not taking risks at the moment," he added.
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Janetta Otter-Barry, publisher at Frances Lincoln (FL), is
leaving the company to set up her own children’s publishing business
Otter-Barry Books.
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Independent publishers shouldn't underestimate the threat of
"game-changer" Penguin Random House, Hardie Grant founder and
chief executive Sandy Grant told the IPG spring conference in a keynote
speech this morning (5th March).
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Usborne Publishing founder Peter Usborne will receive the 12th
annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing at this
year's London Book Fair.
After beginning his publishing career as chairman's assistant
at BCP Publishing in 1968, where he ultimately rose to publishing director,
he set up Usborne Publishing in 1973, and the company has now published
more than 6,000 titles across six languages – English, French, Italian,
Dutch, Brazilian, Portuguese and German – with a seventh imprint, Usborne
Korea, launching later in 2015.
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Bloomsbury will tour UK literary festivals this year with a
new event based on J K Rowling’s Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
For the first time, the publisher has been given permission to
put together an authorless Harry Potter festival event, so it has created
“Boy. Wizard. Hero. Celebrating the Harry Potter Books”, for children aged
nine to 11 years old.
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The European Court of Justice has ordered France and
Luxembourg to restore their standard VAT rates on e-books in a ruling
announced today (5th March).
The court upheld a decision previously made by European
Commission, which ruled that the two countries cannot charge the same VAT
rate on e-books as physical books.
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Amazon has responded to claims from the GMB union that it is
failing in its legal duties when making staff redundant.
GMB had accused the internet giant of failing to follow proper
procedures when making redundancies from its UK fulfilment centres, including
its warehouse operations in Swansea and Milton Keynes.
However, in a statement to The
Bookseller, an Amazon spokesperson said that the company is not
making staff redundant, but instead has in place a system called "The
Offer", which provides a cash bonus to staff members who are
"ready for a new career".
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Saudi Arabia is stepping up its efforts to eradicate the
illegal photocopying and selling of academic titles at “copying centres”
which are often found near the universities.
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Pan Macmillan has appointed Anna Bowen to the new role of
communications manager at new inspirational lifestyle imprint, Bluebird.
Bowen will join the company on Monday 9th March and will
report to Dusty Miller, non-fiction communications director at Pan
Macmillan.
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