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Culture secretary Matt Hancock has appointed Dame Carol Black as chair of the British Library for a four year term.

Head of Zeus has signed a "Golden Age murder mystery" by British Library consultant and Crime Writers' Association chair Martin Edwards.

Independent academic publisher Boydell & Brewer has appointed James Powell as its new c.e.o.

Disruptive new streaming technologies have revolutionised the audio and television markets— but did their bookish equivalents miss a trick?

Palazzo Editions is publishing a children’s picture book of Brian Bilston’s poem 'Refugees' after signing world rights from Unbound.

Six projects – including Dimensions from Digital Science and Clarivate Analytics’ Kopernio – have been shortlisted for the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2018.

Writer, rapper and community activist Darren McGarvey, also known as 'Loki', has won the Orwell Prize for Books for his "heart-rending" debut Poverty Safari (Luath Press).

The four-volume 'Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada' will be sold and distributed by Kids Can Press and Canadian Geographic—and resulted from a conversation between two publishers in China. The post Kids Can Press Will Distribute New Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The four-volume 'Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada' will be sold and distributed by Kids Can Press and Canadian Geographic—and resulted from a conversation between two publishers in China. The post Kids Can Press Will Distribute New Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Lessons in what one observer calls 'the ability to get along with one's own emotions' lead the way in our May bestseller list from China. The post China Bestsellers May 2018: Popular Philosophy and Faith in Love appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.