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Fri, 27/04/2012 - 09:14Publishers are moving quickly to capitalise on the spectacular success of Century’s erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey, with W H Smith books business unit director Rachel Russell predicting that “a new sub-genre can be created and sustained” if publishing houses seize the opportunity. The E L James trilogy-opener...
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Mon, 02/04/2012 - 01:13Books by Michael Palin, Zadie Smith, Andrew Marr, and Ann Widdecombe have been added to the schedules for this autumn, with 11th October looking likely to be this year’s “Super Thursday”.
Titles currently due to be published on the 11th include Miranda Hart’s Is it Just Me? (Hodder & Stoughton),...
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Mon, 05/12/2011 - 08:15Booksellers say they are set for a "range Christmas", predicting that it will benefit the high street.
This year's Christmas titles have not yet thrown up one "phenomenon" book like last year's Jamie Oliver's 30-minute Meals, but instead are offering customers a wide variety of contenders...
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Fri, 30/09/2011 - 08:50Children’s books sales outperformed the rest of the market in the first half of 2011, down just 1% year on year to £143m, due to blockbusting brands and the delay in children adopting digital content in this area.
According to Nielsen BookScan figures presented at yesterday’s Bookseller Children’s Conference,...
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Mon, 26/09/2011 - 09:00Publishers are looking to make their mark with blockbuster titles from day one of release, as the most important day of autumn hardback releases, Super Thursday, looms this week.
This Thursday (29th September) sees 225 hardbacks hitting the shelves, around three times the average, with titles including books by Lee Child, Robert...
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Fri, 05/08/2011 - 16:00Publishers and independent booksellers are stressing the importance of "working harder" on hardback fiction titles, as sales of the format fell by £3.2m over the first half of 2011.
Leading publishing figures and independent booksellers said increasing e-book sales were a contributing factor in the sales drop, but...
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Thu, 28/07/2011 - 09:21Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry and bookies favourite Alan Hollinghurst are seen by the trade as the Man Booker Prize for Fiction frontrunners after the longlist was revealed on Tuesday (26th July).
The indie-heavy list has attracted general approval, with nine out of the 13 titles from independent houses contending for the £50,...
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Fri, 08/07/2011 - 09:55Print sales across the book market have dropped by 3% in the first six months of 2011, compared to the same period last year, with Jamie Oliver the bestselling author over the period, ahead of Julia Donaldson and James Patterson. Macmillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury and Usborne all saw sales growth in the half-year even as the...
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Tue, 14/06/2011 - 15:19Irish book chain and stationers Eason has launched a daily offers site, EasonOffers.com, with the website offering a large discount on one item at a time each day, with free delivery to anywhere in Ireland.
Books offered so far include JFK in Ireland by Ryan Tubridy (Collins) and a box-set of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg...
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Mon, 08/11/2010 - 09:13Penguin is the only publisher out of the Big Four to have grown its market share over the first three quarters of 2010, according to Nielsen BookScan UK sales figures for the 36 weeks to 4th September.
Despite a fall of -4% in the total value of book sales, when comparing the period year-on- year, publishers felt Christmas would be...
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