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Bertelsmann sees group profit rise in first quarter

Random House parent Bertelsmann has made "significant strides" in implementing its growth strategy over the first quarter of 2013, with a...

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Amazon's 2012 tax bill revealed

Amazon.co.uk paid £3.2m in UK tax last year, after making £7.7m in profit, according to accounts filed at Companies House today (15th...

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Robinson wins Kim Scott Walwyn Prize

Foyles head of marketing Miriam Robinson has won the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2013, with the judges praising her "spirited innovation and...

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Growth for US trade sales

Trade publishing in the US grew by nearly 7% in 2012, according to data from BookStats, a statistics programme compiled by the Association of...

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Penguin and Granta score two for Fiction Uncovered

Penguin and Granta each have two titles on this year's Fiction Uncovered list, with Kobo partnering with the promotion for the first time. The...

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Baha Mousa book wins George Orwell Prize


The £3,000 Orwell Book Prize for political writing has been awarded to A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by AT Williams,...

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Reading Agency, Quick Reads launch prison scheme

The Reading Agency and Quick Reads are launching a new project called One Quick Read One Prison, aiming to encourage prisoners and prison staff to...

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Brigden and Duggan win Wolfson History Prizes

Book from Random House and Faber have won the £25,000 Wolfson History Prizes. Susan Brigden’s biography of a Tudor poet, Thomas Wyatt...

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Self-published book among Commonwealth regional winners

A self-published author has featured among the regional winners of the Commonwealth Book Prize. Ezekel Alan from Jamaica won in the Caribbean...

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Strong first-day sales for Inferno

Supermarkets, Amazon and Waterstones have hailed successful first day sales of Dan Brown's Inferno yesterday (14th May), with Amazon predicting...

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Apple tells DOJ: 'we negotiated individually with publishers'

Apple has responded to the US Department of Justice's charge that it conspired with publishers to raise e-book prices, filing a defence which...

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Second Wodehouse win for Jacobson

Howard Jacobson has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the second time with his novel Zoo Time (Bloomsbury). The prize is to have a...

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