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Fri, 03/09/2010 - 12:53
Even a very experienced bookseller would be excused if they admitted never having heard of Anna Jacobs [pictured]. The saga writer has published 47 books with the latest, In Focus (Severn House), just released in paperback. Yet it is fair to say that Jacobs has never set the Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market charts alight. Her total sales...
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Tue, 30/03/2010 - 17:42
It's probably no newsflash for you booksellers that you need to never run out of the Harry Potter series. But did you know that there are seven Julia Donaldson titles that you must have? Or three Sophie Kinsellas? Or two Trudi Canavans? And that former drug dealer Howard Marks and his holiness the Dalai Lama share something in common by being...
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Fri, 29/01/2010 - 10:22
"That's the one thing I hate about Sunnyvale, too many damn vampires."
The sentiment from the last line from the cult 1980s film "The Lost Boys", will probably not be echoed in the halls of UK publishing houses anytime soon. The boom in vampire literature has been one of the main stories of 2009, responsible for some...
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Thu, 21/01/2010 - 16:01
The most striking thing when looking at the chart of the top publishers by market share in 2009 is that there is an awful lot of red in there. If we for the moment exclude the Independent Alliance, seven of the top 10 UK publishers had negative sales growth last year through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market (TCM), as did half of the top...


