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The Bookseller wins PPA Independent Publisher Award for Unbound investigation
The Bookseller has taken home the award for Content Piece of the Year at this year’s PPA Independent Publisher Awards for its investigation into the crowdfunding publisher Unbound earlier this year. In January this year, The Bookseller published the first of a series of articles on the publisher after discovering that several of authors and other suppliers were owed a significant amount of royalties and payments.
Over the next eight months, The Bookseller tracked the story, speaking to those affected, as well as chief executive officer Archna Sharma, co-founder John Mitchinson and others and followed the story as the publisher went into administration before launching the new publisher Boundless, which eventually also collapsed in August this year.
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The Bookseller team attended the PPA Independent Publisher Awards 2025 on Friday 21st November, where the prize was collected on stage by senior reporter Melina Spanoudi, who led on the investigation. Judges praised the team for its "fearless and rigorous investigative journalism that put trust and source loyalty at the centre".
Editor Philip Jones said: "This was a story that demanded accuracy, empathy and depth, and I am delighted that Melina took the award for her work, which underlined The Bookseller’s commitment to investigative reporting."
News editor Maia Snow said: "Melina worked incredibly hard during her investigation into the story, gaining the trust of and interviewing countless sources, and rigorously following the saga from beginning to end. It is brilliant that her hard work has been acknowledged in this way."
