Publishers Association marks 125th birthday Hachette’s top floor was the welcoming and well ventilated venue last night (20th October) for guests from across the industry to come together to celebrate the PA’s 125 anniversary, all delighted to find a good party in London during the week of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Those there to…
Bloomsbury Music and Sound launches Bloomsbury has unveiled a new digital hub, Bloomsbury Music and Sound. It aims to provide exclusive reference content, scholarship and learning resources across music and sound studies. Future modules will include opera and classical ebook and streaming video collections. The platform currently hosts two collections: Bloomsbury Popular Music, which covers…
Bookshop.org reveals September 2021 Indie Champions list Bookshop.org has revealed its September Indie Champions list, the books that generated the most money for independent bookshops on the platform last month. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber) took the top spot for the second month while Richard Osman is in the number two…
Independent bookshops: the summer 2021 edition Over the summer, independent bookshops have been thriving – more people have been holidaying in the UK rather than going abroad, with plenty of time to read. We asked a panel of indies what their recent months have been like – and how they’re getting ready for Christmas. Chicken…
PRH gives Peter Rabbit a ‘brand refresh’ Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s has given Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit a “brand refresh”. The new look, appearing on published and licensed products from this autumn, “places Peter front and centre of the world that Beatrix Potter created almost 120 years ago”. PRH is planning a 120th birthday…
Girl, Woman, Other added to OCR A Level syllabus xam board OCR is increasing the diversity of A Level and GCSE English Literature by including five new novels, a new play and a selection of new poems for its GCSE anthology. The new texts will be taught from September 2022, and OCR will be the…
New branding for OUP Oxford University Press (OUP) has introduced new branding, designed to be part of its drive to become a digital-first business and to “enhance its aim to make knowledge and learning more accessible through the power of technology”. OUP’s initiatives during the pandemic have included a virtual hub of Covid-19 research that…
Save Our Books: ‘up to 64%’ of publishers’ revenues at risk The Publishers Association (PA) has released further data in support of its Save Our Books campaign to stop the parallel importation of books following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Research among PA members has suggested that up to 64% of publishers’ book revenue…
Welcome back to the office: there’s been a murder Crime writer Fiona Sherlock, whose virtual murder mysteries have been played by more than 20,000 people during the pandemic, has launched Murder on the Second Floor, a game centring on an office murder but designed to welcome staff back to office working. The aim is to…
The BookBrunch Interview: Jeremy Neate, head of research and international development, Nielsen BookScan It’s hard to imagine the UK book trade, or any commercial trade today for that matter, operating successfully without sales and data monitoring (SDM) services. Forbes called our era “the age of analytics”, and the pandemic, which forced almost everyone to socialise…