A fundraising appeal has been launched to support Nosy Crow's 32-year-old rights manager Ola Gotkowska, who was diagnosed with the degenerative illness Motor Neurone Disease earlier this year.

Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired a three-book fantasy set on the high seas by debut author Bex Hogan.

Orenda Books has signed Paul Burston’s "disturbingly relevant" thriller The Closer I Get in a Frankfurt pre-empt, two-book deal.

Independent publisher World Editions has snapped up two works by Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, newly crowned winner of the inaugural Academy Prize, the 'Alternative Nobel'.

The philosopher Mary Midgley passed away at the age of 99 on Saturday, her family has announced.

Pan Macmillan has launched a significant pre-publication audiobook campaign to accompany the new novel in C J Sansom’s Shardlake series, Tombland.

Malorie Blackman, Alex T Smith, Abi Elphinstone and Sibéal Pounder are amongst the authors behind next year’s expanded line-up of £1 World Book Day (WBD) titles.

Sharon Bolton's The Craftsman trilogy has been optioned by the same producers of the hit TV series "Killing Eve", Sid Gentle Films.

Independent publisher Dead Ink will publish Lee Rourke’s third novel, Glitch, about a dramatic drop in cabin pressure on a man’s flight home from America.

Last week's STM news raises questions about whether scholarly publishers are prepared to radically improve content distribution. Is content syndication the end game? The post Will Publishers Syndicate Their Content? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

We spoke to award-winning children’s illustrator David Small, who returns this October with a "fictional follow-up" to his 2009 memoir Stitches.

After a number of months of sales gains, revenue at that nation's bookstores fell 1.2% in August compared to a year ago, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Intended to produce multifaceted programs on books, films, television, and game, with special focus on the licensing opportunities they offer, the LIMA-Frankfurt agreement is underway. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse and LIMA Open New Partnership on Licensing During Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Intended to produce multifaceted programs on books, films, television, and game, with special focus on the licensing opportunities they offer, the LIMA-Frankfurt agreement is underway. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse and LIMA Open New Partnership on Licensing During Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Frankfurt Book Fair releases attendance numbers, and PP looks back at the week's discussions of international book trends and political issues. The post 2018 Frankfurt Recap: Mild Increase in Attendance, Book Trade and Political Discussions appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.