In marked contrast to comments made by the then Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson at Futurebook at the end of 2016, his fellow chief execs at this year’s BookExpo ... Read more
Kim Wilkins was born in London but grew up in the sunniest part of Australia. She published her first novel in 1997 and has published a further 29 since then, ... Read more
Samantha Rayner is a Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, the Deputy Editor for the Journal of the International Arthurian Society, and the General Editor for a new ... Read more
Open access dominates this month’s news, as the debate about monographs in REF2027 simmers on, the London School of Economics founds its own press, and UCL passes a milestone. British ... Read more
Phew! That Bishop. Can the address be published? Why isn’t it on the tills now, next to those cool Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tracts from Fourth Estate? A little gift paperback, ... Read more
Congratulations to Publisher of the Year HarperCollins. This isn’t a Nibbies leak – it’s HarperCollins Australia we’re talking about, named Publisher of the Year at the 2018 Australian Book Industry ... Read more
Hannah Wilson is Executive Headteacher at Aureus School & Aureus Primary School, part of the GLF Schools trust. Hannah is the Strategic Lead for the GLF Teaching School Alliance and the ... Read more
Industry divided on response to ResearchGate The past month has seen divisions deepen within the industry over ResearchGate, whose unauthorised hosting of academic articles infringes publishers’ copyrights. Three publishers – ... Read more
Sharply contrasting news for book initiatives on either side of the Atlantic. At the time of writing the UK’s Quick Reads scheme, in which well-known authors write short, accessible books ... Read more
Annie Stone is the international account manager at BookBub, where she works with publishers in the UK, Canada, and Australia to promote great books and get new authors discovered. Before ... Read more
