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The profits from publishing: a publisher's perspective

Andrew Franklin, m.d. of Profile Books, offers a publisher's perspective on the issue of author pay. Read more

Trade figures to join global climate strike

Staff at Profile Books and booksellers from independent bookshops Mr B's and Book Hive are among the industry figures taking part in tomorrow's global climate strike.... Read more

Profile reports 4% turnover dip but steady profit in 'solid' year

Profile Books has reported a “solid” financial year 2018 to 2019 with turnover at £11.4m, a 4% dip on the previous year, while operating profit... Read more

Serpent's Tail snaps up 'devastating' memoir from Fuller

Serpent’s Tail will publish a new memoir by British-Zimbabwean author Alexandra Fuller. Read more

Souvenir rush-publishes Brown academic's guide to kids after four-way auction

Souvenir Press is rush-publishing a New York Times bestseller childcare guide, Cribsheet, by Brown University professor Emily Oster following a four-publisher auction.... Read more

Clarke signs two-book deal with Serpent's Tail

Serpent’s Tail has bought two books from British novelist James Clarke, including "an extraordinary portrait of a Lancashire valley and its inhabitants". Read more

Profile and Aitken Alexander create academics' non-fiction prize

Profile Books and Aitken Alexander have launched the Profile Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic.... Read more

Profile's Wellcome for Parker's tech-body 'hack'

Profile Books will publish former soldier and double amputee Harry Parker’s “personal and eye-opening look at how science and tech are ‘hacking’ our bodies”, Hybrid... Read more