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First-day sales for Harper Lee 'top 105k' Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) racked up first-day sales in the UK of over 105,000 copies, across print and digital editions, according to publisher Penguin Random House. Meanwhile Waterstone's own sales for the title are approaching 30,000, m.d. James Daunt told The Bookseller. The book was published yesterday (14th July) to a torrent of publicity as well as widespread bookshop events.

Lee rises while Grey scales down Harper Lee scored her highest-ever ranking in the UK Top 50 last week, in the week before the release of Go Set a Watchman (Heinemann). To Kill A Mockingbird (Arrow) jumped 30 places in the top 50 chart up to ninth place, earning the 89-year-old her first top 10 entry since Nielsen BookScan records began in 1998.

Amazon offers its first Prime Day deals Amazon’s first Prime Day is underway, with the retailer offering free Kindle books and deep discounts off popular book box sets for Prime members only today (15th July). The e-commerce giant begun “lightning deals” and deep discounts on thousands of products from midnight for what it is calling its first Prime Day, to mark the company’s 20th anniversary.

US: authors ask DOJ to investigate Amazon Author protest group Authors United is asking authors to sign a letter to the US Justice Department, asking it "to examine Amazon's control of the book market." The letter has been drafted with the help of the Authors Guild. Meanwhile both the American Booksellers Association and the Association of Authors Representatives have "strongly endorsed it", said author Douglas Preston [pictured], who sent out the request to authors yesterday (13th July) on behalf of Authors United. The letter will be submitted in late July, Preston said.

'Establishment' is Blackwell's Book of Year Blackwell’s has named Owen Jones’s The Establishment (Penguin) as its Book of the Year 2015. The company’s employees were asked to vote for their winner from a shortlist of six, namely Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (Profile Books), Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing (Penguin), The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber), Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Vintage), and Helen McDonald’s H Is For Hawk (Vintage), with The Establishment coming top of the poll.

Perry promoted at H&S Hodder and Stoughton has promoted editor Anne Perry to the role of commissioning editor, as of 1st August. Associate publisher Oliver Johnson said: “Since joining Hodder a little over three years ago,  Anne has been an enthusiastic and inspirational colleague. Her first purchase, Sarah Lotz’s The Three, became the book of the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair and sold in 23 territories. Since then she has acquired some of the most prestigious writers in the SFF area: James Smythe, Nnedi Okorafor and Lavie Tidhar.

PRH selects winners from 'The Scheme' Four aspiring marketers aged 18-27 have earned a place on Penguin Random House UK's new entry-level programme The Scheme, a programme launched this year and aiming to recruit people who may not previously have considered a career in publishing. The Scheme considers applicants on potential rather than on qualifications or background.

New ad campaign for 'Jonathan Strange' Bloomsbury is promoting the TV tie-in edition of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke with screen advertising at London train stations. As part of its campaign to see "magic return to England", the publisher created six digital panels with the tagline "read the book that cast a spell over millions".

Rihanoff's story from John Blake John Blake Publishing will this October publish Dancing Out Of Darkness: My Story, the autobiography of "Strictly Come Dancing" dancer Kristina Rihanoff. Ghostwritten by Abi Smith, the book will describe how Rihanoff was born in Soviet Vladivostok to parents who worked as engineers aboard nuclear submarines, and how her talent for dancing meant she earned enough money tomove to the US and turn professional.

Paul Flynn guide tops MPs' summer reads How to be an MP by Paul Flynn (Biteback) is chief among the list of summer reads for the nation’s politicians, according to a Blackwell's survey. With a raft of new MPs taking their seats in parliament, the guide for MPs, with a foreword by speaker John Bercow, is the top pick to read this summer, with How Parliament Works by Robert Rogers and Rhodri Walters (Routledge), along with Boris Johnson’s Churchill Factor (Hodder).

Venice mayor removes books about homosexuality from schools The mayor of Venice has removed books about homosexuality from the city’s schools. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro released a statement saying he “decided to recall all the books distributed by the previous administration so as to be able to establish without haste whether they are, or indeed are not, suitable for children of pre-school age”.

'Very British Problems' gets TV deal Channel 4 will next year air a TV series based on Rob Temple’s twitter feed about particularly British problems, @SoVeryBritish, and the subsequent book Very British Problems (Sphere).    Production company Alaska TV is making three 60-minute episodes of the show, which will feature comedians such as Jonathan Ross, James Corden, Steven Mangan, Ruth Jones and Jonny Vegas talking about the awkwardness of life as a Brit.