News: digital

Transworld partners with Hummingbird Bakery for Pooley paperback launch

Transworld has partnered with the Hummingbird Bakery to mark the paperback launch of Clare Pooley's "feel-good" novel The Authenticity Project. ... Read more

Housmans and Comma to release playback of Peake and Eccleston readings

Housmans Bookshop is to release a free playback of two online events featuring actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake reading stories published by Comma Press. ... Read more

Arachne Press expands into audiobooks

Arachne Press has taken a leap into the world of audiobooks, with nine books due for publication this year set to be simultaneously released in audio... Read more

Wilson, Kenyon and Missingham confirmed for first IPG international forum

Nosy Crow m.d Kate Wilson, Nielsen BookScan director for UK and Ireland Hazel Kenyon, and Empowered Author founder Sam Missingham are among the speakers confirmed... Read more

Unbound to release Sheen and Tennant's complete Staged scripts

Unbound has launched a pre-order campaign for the complete scripts and official companion to lockdown hit TV series “Staged” with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.... Read more

Huq's Cookie stories set for TV

A live action TV series based on Konnie Huq's Cookie stories is to be produced, following a deal secured by Zodiak Kids Studios. ... Read more

PRH to release over 50 Heyer audiobooks

Penguin Random House UK is to release more than 50 of Georgette Heyer's Regency romance novels in audio this year. Read more

Perlego rolls out free online access for Arden University

Perlego, the online subscription service for educational books, has partnered with digital-first university Arden to provide all its students with free online textbooks and additional... Read more

Cast confirmed for TV version of Rooney's Conversations with Friends

Actors Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn are to star in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, Conversations with Friends (Faber). ... Read more

Hatchards launches first transactional website

Bookseller Hatchards has today (17th February) unveiled its first transactional website, designed and built in a partnership between the Waterstones e-commerce, IT and Hatchards teams. ... Read more

Armitage and Fiennes among all-star cast for PRH Audio's 2000 AD adaptations

Richard Armitage, Sheila Atim and Joseph Fiennes are starring in five new audiobook adaptations of stories from 2000 AD, including Judge Dredd and Halo Jones.... Read more

Printing Charity rebrands awards and opens for entries

The Printing Charity has rebranded its annual Print Futures Awards as the Rising Star Awards, and they are now open for online entries.... Read more

Claire Danes to star in Essex Serpent TV adaptation

Claire Danes has been cast as the lead role in the screen adaptation of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Serpent's Tail).... Read more

Buchanan to release podcast on sex to accompany Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan is launching a new podcast with Sphere, called "Daisy is Insatiable", to accompany her debut novel. Read more

Online retailer Bookshop.org makes shared pool payments monthly

Bookshop.org is to introduce more regular shared pool payments for booksellers, in addition to paid advertising which will see bookshops sharing 50% of revenues.... Read more