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Bookshops contribute £1.9bn to the UK economy every year
and pay 11 times more corporation tax than Amazon, according to
statistics published in a new report commissioned by the
Booksellers Association.
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Booksellers Association president Rosamund de la Hey
has called on publishers not to forget the "growing" market
for physical CDs when making plans for their audiobook businesses.
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McFly band member turned children's author Tom
Fletcher has launched a children's book club exclusively
with WH Smith.
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The market for books, whether print or digital, should
remain flat in the next three to five years and then decline slightly
over the following decade, according to Arnaud Nourry, chairman and
c.e.o. of Hachette Livre.
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Kings Road Publishing is launching a new food
and wellness imprint in 2018 run by Natalie Jerome and called
Lagom.
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Turnover at Profile Books was up nearly 7% to £12.6m in
the financial year to March 2017, in a "strong" year for the
company.
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Bonnier Publishing is partnering with Disney to
publish a new range of titles in the UK from autumn 2017.
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The BBC will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Harry
Potter with “rarely seen documents from J K Rowling’s archives,
revealing her magical inspirations” in the run up to the British
Library’s exhibition next month.
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Gollancz has made two promotions
in its editorial team, seeing editor Marcus
Gipps step up to the role of editorial director and senior editor
Rachel Winterbottom promoted to commissioning editor.
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Denise Mina's The
Long Drop (Harvill Secker) has been awarded the McIlvanney
Prize for Scottish crime book of the year.
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Hachette Children's Group non-fiction imprint Wren &
Rook has signed a three-book deal with pop culture illustrator Eve
Lloyd Knight, with the first title celebrating the centenary of women
in the UK winning the right to vote.
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Three novels by Ian McEwan - The Children Act
(2014), On Chesil
Beach (2007) and The
Child in Time (1987), all published by Vintage - are set to
hit screens in the coming weeks as film and
television adaptations.
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