John Green to tackle mental illness in October novel

Six years after his huge hit The Fault in Our Stars, author John Green will bring out a new novel, Turtles All the Way Down, in November. Read more

Trade figures say campaign needed to promote the value of books and reading

Leading figures have urged the publishing industry to pool its data and money to create a cross-industry campaign about the value of books and reading. Read more

Two new Harry Potter books for British Library exhibition

Bloomsbury and Pottermore will publish two new books this autumn for the British Library exhibition “Harry Potter: A History of Magic”. Read more

Controversy as author pulls out of history festival in diversity protest

A Twitter storm has erupted over the lack of people of colour speaking at the Chalke Valley History Festival, with historian Rebecca Rideal pulling out just... Read more
Plenty of pup fiction on trade’s #bringyourdogtoworkday

The book trade has been welcoming a fresh batch of interns today (23rd June) as part of #TakeYourDogToWorkDay. Read more
Radio 2’s Haddow to launch Book Off! podcast

BBC Radio 2 producer Joe Haddow will next week launch a podcast called “Book Off!”, in which authors, comedians and figures from the music and film worlds... Read more
Literature Wales raises 'serious concerns' about government review

Literature Wales has raised “serious concerns” regarding the Welsh Publishing and Literature Review released last week after it was accused of being “inward looking” and... Read more
Elsevier awarded $15m from Sci-Hub in copyright case

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has welcomed a US court ruling awarding publisher Elsevier $15m in damages for copyright infringements. Read more
Bluebird wins behavioural change expert Izadi after five-way auction

Pan Macmillan has won two books by Shahroo Izadi following a "hotly contested" five-publisher auction, with the first title, The Kindness Method, set to be the imprint's lead... Read more

Opinion

Oi everyone!

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Contrary to what you might occasionally hear, cross-industry campaigns are not a rarity in this business. Read more
The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year is back

Horace Bent Diarist at The Bookseller
It’s time to be bold

Marcus Leaver Chief executive at The Quarto Group
The can-do attitude

James Spackman Publisher at Pursuit
Anatomy of a campaign: #LoveAudio

Fionnuala Barrett Senior audio editor at HarperCollins

Book Previews

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This app is getting young people Hooked on chat-based fiction

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

This mobile storytelling app has 20 million downloads - and it's reaching that elusive Gen Z demographic. Read more
What 15 years at Foyles taught me about the future of bookselling

Siôn Hamilton Trading director at Foyles
It's time for publishers to get serious about metadata

Eleanor Jones Metadata manager at Pan Macmillan
Steady your heart: web-connected paper is on its way

Molly Flatt Associate editor at FutureBook
What publishers should know about this year's Internet Trends Report

Guy Gadney c.e.o. at To Play For

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