Publishers undaunted by lockdown and unruffled by Brexit Anthony Forbes Watson, md at Pan Macmillan, said: “Another lockdown has looked inevitable and necessary for a while, and whilst it is of course difficult for everyone in many ways, it comes in parallel with the roll out of the vaccine and renewed hope for us all…
Publishers braced for potential no-deal Brexit Even as the British government and the European Union wrangle on a withdrawal agreement, UK publishers have begun warning staff of the dire consequences of a no-deal Brexit, fearing it could lead to book stock being held up at ports, paper supply to UK printers threatened, and a fall…
Bound books will not be included in US tariffs, admits PA The United States tariffs on EU exports will not include bound books, the Publishers Association has admitted, after originally branding the move “completely unacceptable”. On Friday, the UK PA said printed books from the EU were going to be targeted by US tariffs. It…
Pinch of Nom becomes fastest-selling non-fiction title recorded Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s slimming cookbook Pinch of Nom (Bluebird), based on the authors’ food blog, has become the fastest-selling non-fiction title of the Nielsen BookScan era, selling a gastronomical 210,506 copies through its Total Consumer Market, beating Alex Ferguson’s My Autobiography (Hodder) in its first week on sale in…
Northern Fiction Alliance and literary agency join forces to ‘demystify’ publishing A conference will be held in Manchester next month “demystifying” publishing and giving advice on landing a role in the industry. Organised by Comma Press, the Northern Fiction Alliance and The bks Agency, the ‘Get a Job in Publishing’ conference takes place on 27th…
Audio ‘booming’ with 13% growth last year Audiobooks are the fastest growing publishing format with 13% growth in 2018, according to Nielsen BookScan. Revealing the figures at The London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference, Nielsen said the audiobook boom is continuing with volume up 13% since 2017 and up 87% since 2014. Audiobooks now account…
International sales ‘increasingly important in 2019’, predict publishers Publishers will increasingly look to international territories for growth this year in the face of a stable but flat domestic market, according to industry leaders giving The Bookseller their predictions for what 2019 holds for the trade. Yet paradoxically the terms of many international trading relationships are currently uncertain…
The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union The_United_Kingdom’s_exit_from_and_partnership_with_the_EU_Web HM Government – Publications The Guardian Brexit white paper: key points explained All you need to know about the government’s outline for how the UK plans to leave the EU David Davis publishes Brexit white paper – Politics live A pedestrian…
Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald … the literary year ahead Clockwise from top left: Ali Smith, Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Paula Hawkins, Evan Davis, Rebecca Solnit, George Osborne, Richard Rogers, Hari Kunzru, Arundhati Roy, Yanis Varoufakis, Attica Locke. Photograph: Getty/Alamy/the Guardian/BBC/Reuters/AFP/AGF/REX/Shutterstock The Guardian Saturday 7…
Acknowledgements : GfK UK Consumer confidence dives post-Brexit London, 08.07.2016 Get in touch with us London, 8 July 2016 – In a one-off special GfK Consumer Confidence Barometer (CCB) to measure post-referendum sentiment, the core Index has fallen 8 points to -9. All of the key measures used to calculate the Index have fallen. This…