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Last Updated 02.10.08

Under pressure

The National Year of Reading has provided a wonderful opportunity for children's books and reading. The focus on children's reading has attracted several millions of pounds in government funding for free books for children and much...

 

Taking the mic

If book sales have proven anything over the past few Christmasses, it is that the British public loves a laugh. According to Nielsen BookScan, value sales of humour books have almost trebled between 2001 and 2007 from...

 

Buying into books

Predicting the next bestseller is just one part of a book buyer's job. Hannah Davies speaks to Borders' Rob Hughes about analysing data, spotting trends and schmoozing with publishers Rob Hughes' career path to...

 

Special agent

Honest, yet Machiavellian. Those are the paradoxical qualities a literary agent needs to succeed, says the man who handles the James Bond titles—United Agents' Simon Trewin. He talks to Hannah Davies Simon...

 

Socially acceptable

It's official—publishers and their authors are taking over the world of online social networking. A search of "books" on YouTube finds more than 156,000 videos, ranging from author talking heads to publishers'...

 

Cover to cover

Can you really judge a book by its cover? One school of thought says that if you are scouring the shelves of a bookshop in America, you can. For in the US—particularly for heavy-weight literary titles—publishers often...

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Getting readers into books

Personalised books have come a long way. Gone are the days of children's names clumsily cut and pasted into generic template text, or poorly reproduced photographs on covers that take weeks to print. These days, custom-made books...

 

That easy second book

When talking of "the Richard & Judy effect" on book sales, one must be very careful to include the 
caveats. Admittedly, running the sales of the 82 books to date that have been included in the 10 "Richard...

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All change at US Bloomsbury

"People don't understand: it's not about America. You publish your authors to the best of your ability wherever people want to buy their books." So said arch-globalist Richard Charkin in July, speaking about the role...

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Back to Works?

The Works has proved aptly named in the past eight months—that is precisely what Britain's biggest discount bookselling chain has been through after falling into administration in January. However, the business may be poised...

 

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