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Jonathan Cape plans to re-publish its six Howard Jacobson titles after the author scooped the Man Booker prize last night.
Jacobson won the £50,000 for The Finkler Question, his first title to be published by Bloomsbury. He moved to Bloomsbury from Cape earlier this year, with the Random House imprint previously publishing six titles by him.
Dan Franklin, publisher at Jonathan Cape said it would be re-printing all of his backlist. These include Kalooki Nights, The Mighty Walzer, The Making of Henry, Who's Sorry Now, No More Mr. Nice Guy and The Act of Love.
Franklin said: "I am delighted for him, but as you can imagine its bitter sweet. I've said for the last 15 years that he is one of the best UK writers."
Since the winner was announced last night (12th October) Bloomsbury has arranged for 50,000 hardback editions to be printed for the UK market. The publisher is also printing 30,000 trade paperback editions for the export market and 75,000 trade paperbacks in the US and Canada.
Publishing director Michael Fishwick said: "I'm happy for Howard. He was bottom of the odds and we were preparing ourselves. I had one arm round him and his wife had one arm round him, but it was the most extraordinary moment." He added: "He is the sort of national treasure who hasn't had the recognition before."
Amazon has brought down the price of the Kindle Edition of the winner. This morning it was selling it at parity with the 'street price' of the hardback £9.49, but the digital price has now dropped to £6.64. This is close to half the price of the e-book on Waterstones.com.