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Watchman calls time on Grey, debuts at number one
Harper Lee soared to the top of the UK Top 50 with the release of Go Set A Watchman (William Heinemann), selling 168,455 copies last...
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HMH US reaches new sales agreement with Amazon
US educational and trade publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has reportedly reached a new e-book sales agreement with Amazon.Publishers Lunchreported that the publisher...
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Waterstones sells 50k copies of Watchman
Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman (William Heinemann) has given Waterstones its biggest first week of sales since J K Rowling’s final Harry Potter book...
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Harper Lee dominates US chart
Harper Lee dominated Nielsen BookScan US charts with four spots in the top 10 and seven in the top 100, led by Go Set a...
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Bloomsbury revenues rise 13% in first quarter
Bloomsbury revenues grew 13% in the first quarter of the year, driven by growth in its children’s and education division.For the three months ending...
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Big Five’s e-book sales stabilise
This year we are witnessing the maturation of the e-book market. Digital sales growth has, of course, been one of the book trade’s overriding stories...
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Amazon posts surprise profit for second quarter
Amazon has returned to profit in the second quarter of the year, posting net profits of $92m (£59m) for the period ending 30th June. ...
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Sales rise but profits hit at CUP
Cambridge University Press saw sales rise 5% year-on-year at constant currency rates to £269m in the year ended April 2015, according to its latest annual...
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'Watchman' continues to dominate charts
Harper Lee has held the Official Top 50 number one spot for a second consecutive week, with Go Set A Watchman (Heinemann) selling 57,612 copies,...
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In the early noughties, The Bookseller ran an occasional series on “real booksellers”. Written by our former retail correspondent Richard Lewis, the idea was to...
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How do you measure the true value of the book business? It’s a common enough question for which there is no common answer. Yet, with...
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Barely two weeks into 2015, and already the year is shaping up to be a humdinger. Booksellers are back! The print book...
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Consultants and pundits, look away now. The book market is performing in almost exactly the wrong way. The big publishers are not gaining market share;...
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Nothing more clearly illustrates the seismic shifts in the publishing landscape in the past 10 years than the decline of publishers’ sales forces.Their numbers...
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The news of Amazon’s changed tax arrangements, with UK sales no longer diverted to Luxembourg but booked through a UK office accountable to HMRC, feels...
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