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19th July 201819th October 2020

Snapshot for 20 July 2018

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As parks and gardens turned brown across the UK and Waterstones stores cleverly displayed Penelope Lively’s novel Heat Wave, so the mercury on the Nielsen print sales thermometer (this analogy ... Read more

5th July 201819th October 2020

Snapshot for 6 July 2018

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Some interesting comments from Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle on wanting to grown both its physical and digital businesses. He noted: “Today we are selling our books through 120,000 ... Read more

20th June 201819th October 2020

Snapshot for 22 June 2018

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It has been a good month for independent presses. Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, published by Dublin’s Tramp Press, won the €100,000 Dublin International Literary Award; Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole, ... Read more

7th June 201819th October 2020

Snapshot for 8 June

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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

23rd May 201819th October 2020

Snapshot for 25 May 2018

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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