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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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