Adam Kay is set to adapt his bestselling account of being a junior doctor, This is Going to Hurt (Picador), into an eight-part BBC comedy drama.
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After its recent Walter Scott Prize win, indie list Bluemoose Books expected the media to be beating a path to its door. Its co-founders were mistaken...
Sir Bradley Wiggins is writing a book on cycling’s most iconic riders for HarperCollins.
A German author is taking Random House to court for declining to release his book Hostile Takeover: How Islam Hampers Progress and Threatens Society which it originally signed on the basis of a 10-page proposal.
Fleet has acquired We Swim to the Shark, a personal story of big fears, strange fish and diving by Georgie Codd.
DK's UK and group sales director Ed Christie has decided to leave the publishing industry and move into the teaching profession, with Bloomsbury's Jacqueline Sells appointed his successor.
Films based on books take 44% more at the box office in the UK and 53% more worldwide than original screenplays, research from the Publishers Association (PA) has shown.
Princeton University Press announces its PUP Audio division with four frontlist titles for the fall. And Penguin Random House Ireland partners with the charity Fighting Words on a student anthology. The post Industry Notes: Princeton Press Opens Audio Division; PRH Ireland Supports Fighting Words appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
Princeton University Press announces its PUP Audio division with four frontlist titles for the fall. And Penguin Random House Ireland partners with the charity Fighting Words on a student anthology. The post Industry Notes: Princeton Press Opens Audio Division; PRH Ireland Supports Fighting Words appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
Taking on the critics who say that TV and film are eroding publishing, the Publishers Association's report asserts that the best—and top-earning—productions 'begin with a book.' The post New Report: Publishers Association Says the Best of Film, TV, and Theater Begins With a Book appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.