Friday, November 14, 2014

Ali Smith wins £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize & other book news from The Bookseller

Ali Smith
Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction.
Smith won the £10,000 award, now in its second year, for How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton), the two-part novel which lost out to Richard Flanagan on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker.
German media company Bertelsmann has reported its highest revenues in seven years, at €11.82bn for the first nine months of 2014, up 4.3% year-on-year from €11.33bn, with the formation of Penguin Random House among factors contributing "significantly" to the increase.
Operating EBITDA was €1.48bn to the end of September 2014, compared to €1.46bn the previous year.
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson has bested fellow bestsellers J K Rowling, Jamie Oliver and Dan Brown to become the only author to record annual sales of over £10m in five consecutive years.
The Gruffalo creator sold almost £239,000 last week through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market, to bring her tally for 2014 to £10.02m on just under 2.09 million units.  
Amazon has thrown more weight behind its plans to develop unmanned drones –“Octocopters” - to deliver orders to customers within half an hour.
The online retailer has advertised for Flight Operations Engineers based in Cambridge in the UK, who would be responsible for developing drone technologies.

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