No bad sex in 2020 The Literary Review has cancelled the 2020 Bad Sex in Fiction Award. “The judges felt that the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well,” the journal explained. Invitations to the party at which the prize is…
Ladybird launches Little Big Moments Ladybird has launched a new initiative, Little Big Moments, aimed at supporting parents and helping children connect with family members who they can’t currently see. The publisher is sending a pair of matching books to a ‘separated duo’ each day so they can enjoy storytime together via phone or video…
TLS launches online bookshop with Monwell The Times Literary Supplement has opened a new online shop selling books, prints of its covers and illustrations alongside branded merchandise. Launched through e-commerce firm Monwell, which also provides bookshops for the Guardian and Archant, fulfilment for the new shop is provided by Gardners. The TLS said its shop…
US libraries boycott Macmillan over e-book policy change A group of US libraries plan to boycott Macmillan over its controversial new e-book lending policy, suspending purchases of digital copies from the publisher. From today (1st November) the publisher is limiting library purchases to only one copy of each new e-book title for the first eight weeks…
James Daunt says pay row obscures ‘decent progress’ at Waterstones Waterstones managing director James Daunt has warned that the company’s future is not yet secure. It follows a public row over pay, with booksellers and authors petitioning for the retailer to pay its staff the real living wage. Waterstones also this week released its…
The chief executive of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, says the industry has had ‘one or two successes among a hundred failures’ and that ebooks have ‘no creativity’ Alison Flood The head of one of the world’s largest book publishers has described the ebook as “a stupid product” that is unlikely to see further growth.…
After an absence of a couple of years or so, Kobo has made a reappearance in South Africa with an ad for the Aura H20 appearing on p3 of the latest Incredible Connection’s knock ‘n’ drop insert (3 – 6 Nov 2016). More information on the device can be found at Kobo US For…
According to The Bookseller (26 May), the following websites will be blocked by the UK’s main ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk and EE) AvaxHome Ebookee Freebookspot Freshwap Libgen Bookfi Bookreare Read more:
Print sales of adult fiction have declined by over £150m since 2009, new figures show, as ebooks take an increasingly large bite out of the market. READ MORE
Kindle sales have ‘disappeared’, says UK’s largest book retailer An interesting article in today’s Telegraph, with the comments that follow also worth a read.