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ShelterBox Book Club, the UK’s first non-profit book subscription service, is celebrating its five-year anniversary.

Hutchinson Heinemann held a Fiction 2024 Showcase presenting seven authors in London’s The Hoxton Hotel.

Amazon has launched a lawsuit in California against almost 20 individuals and associated companies “that falsely claim affiliation" with its publishing services.

Penguin Random House UK (PRH UK) is proposing to remove 38 roles across several divisions and departments as the publisher faces “longer-term challenges" around growing profits “in the face of increasing cost pressures”. 

The season for Publishing Scotland includes the arrival of its first five audiobooks as well as an anniversary for 'Beano.' The post During Frankfurt: Publishing Scotland Launches Five Audiobooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The six shortlisted books in contention for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize have been announced.

Courting India by Nandini Das, an account of Sir Thomas Roe's 17th-century mission to India wins the British Academy Book Prize for Cultural Understanding. The post Nandini Das Wins the £25,000 British Academy Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Pop star Britney Spears’ autobiography is a record-breaker for Simon & Schuster, while the entire market begins to show some Christmas cheer.

Storytel, the Swedish audiobook distributor, reported an operating profit for the first time in seven years, reporting SEK15m (£1.1m) for the third quarter period ended 30th September, and buoyant sales up 13% year-on-year, at SEK842.4m (£62.1m). 

Nandini Das has won the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Bloomsbury).