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Harper Lee’s Go
Set a Watchman has set a new record for the number of copies
sold at US chain Barnes & Noble stores in one day.
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A list of the 20 Academic Books that Changed the World and the
production of a peer-reviewed monograph within a single month are among the
activities planned to surround Academic Book Week (ABW) in November.
SAGE, Blackwell's, Palgrave Macmillan, Liverpool University
Press, a number of universities and The British Library have all confirmed
events for the first such week,
which will take place between 9th-16th November.
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Amazon.com has said its Prime Day orders had surpassed those
of Black Friday yesterday (16th July), but many customers took to social
media to criticize the quality of deals available.
The retailer held its first ever “Prime Day” yesterday,
offering Black Friday-esque “lightning deals” and heavy discounts on
products across its stores, in a bid to recruit more people to sign up to
Amazon Prime membership, which costs £79 a year in the UK.
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Penguin Random House is today (16th July) re-launching The
Penguin Podcast with a series of programmes about the objects that
inspire authors, hosted by actor Richard E Grant.
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Ebury Press has bought Ctrl,
Alt; Delete, a memoir about growing up online, by journalist
and blogger Emma Gannon [pictured].
Commissioning editor Sara Cywinski has bought UK and Commonwealth rights to
the book, in which Gannon talks about subjects from editing photos for MySpace
to conducting dubious webcam exchanges, from Robyn Drury at Diane
Banks Associates.
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Publishing Scotland has launched an inaugural international
fellowship programme and relaunched its Books From Scotland website.
Senior publishing figures from the US, Canada and across
Europe have accepted invitations to visit Scotland from Monday 24th-Friday
28th August where they will meet writers and publishers in Edinburgh,
Glasgow and Inverness.
The inward trade mission will run after funding help from
Scottish Development International and Publishing Scotland, with Emergents
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Library campaign group Save Lincolnshire Libraries will
challenge the county authority’s decision to withdraw funding for its
libraries at the High Court next week, according to local news reports.
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Bloomsbury will this November publish a deluxe edition of the
illustrated Harry Potter, with artwork by Jim Kay, priced at £150.
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone – Deluxe Illustrated Edition will be
published alongside the £30 version, also illustrated by Kay.
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Daunt Books has unveiled two new websites dedicated to
its books and publishing arms designed and built by booksellers.
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Penguin Random House imprint Century has acquired the debut
novel of Hollie Overton, a US TV writer.
The novel, Baby Doll,
is a psychological thriller about Lily Riser, a 16-year-old who vanishes,
leaving behind a distraught mother and twin sister. Eight years later, she
escapes her captor and reappears – now with her own 6-year-old daughter in
tow. While seeking justice against her abuser, she must also come to terms
with how both she and her family have changed.
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Simon & Schuster has acquired the debut novel of
Australian author Aoife Clifford.
Carla Josephson, assistant fiction editor at Simon & Schuster UK,
bought UK, Commonwealth and Australia and New Zealand rights to Clifford’s All These Perfect Strangers
from Rebecca Ritchie of Curtis Brown in London and Clare Forster at Curtis
Brown in Australia.
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Jon Woolcott, formerly
of Waterstones and Stanfords, is to join Dorset-based publisher Little Toller.
Woolcott will work at the publisher three days a week, helping
to grow the business.
Little Toller, based in Toller Fratrum, was established in
2008 and specialises in non-fiction titles about the natural world and our
relationship with landscape. Authors include Iain Sinclair, Richard Mabey,
Adam Thorpe and Oliver Rackham.
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