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Blackwell’s is set to open a new store in London’s High
Holborn this Friday (19th December) to capture the Christmas rush.
The company closed its Charing Cross Road store in summer this year after 19
years due to falling footfall and sales on the world famous bookselling
street, pledging to soon find another venue in London.
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The US judges hearing Apple's appeal against its
price-fixing conviction have asked questions about the role of Amazon in
the e-book market, giving hope for the appeal, it has been reported.
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Google is looking to experiment with a "buy now"
button that would allow browsers to shop directly through the search
engine, without having to visit a retailer's own website.
According to a report in the Wall
Street Journal, the search giant is seeking to compete
directly with Amazon, which offers a "one-click" shopping
service .
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Mark Smith, the founder and former c.e.o. of Quercus, is to
join Bonnier Publishing as c.e.o. of its fiction department.
Smith left Quercus after the formerly independent publisher
was bought by Hachette UK’s Hodder & Stoughton
earlier this year.
He will now become c.e.o. of Bonnier Publishing Fiction in
London, covering both adult and children’s books.
Smith’s company Zaffre Publishing will also be brought into
the Bonnier Publishing, for an undisclosed fee.
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Guinness World Records 2015 (GWR) has recorded its
biggest weekly sale since being published in September, ending the two-week
run at the top of the charts by vlogger Zoe "Zoella" Sugg's Girl Online (Puffin).
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US publishers have reported a sales revenues rise of nearly
5% across 2014, mainly fuelled by the success of children's and young
adult.
Figures released by the Association of American Publishers
(AAP), covering the first nine months of the year, show that across
publishing as a whole, including academic, sales are up 4.9%, compared to
last year. The greatest percentage growth of sales between January and
September 2014 was in children's and young adult, which saw a 22.4%
increase from the same period in 2013.
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Enthusiasm for reading among Mexico's younger population,
and the country's fondness for US and UK writers, are reasons for foreign
publishers to take note of the country, according to Roberto Banchik
Rothschild, c.e.o. of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial for Mexico,
Central America and the US Hispanic Market.
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Frankfurt Book Fair and the World Cookbook Fair have entered
into a long term agreement to work together to bring publishers and
authors in the culinary sector to Frankfurt in 2015.
Juergen Boos, director of FBF, and Edouard Cointreau, vice
president of the World Cookbook Fair, signed the agreement last week.
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