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Curtis Brown Creative has recently launched an online writing course, priced at £35, to help aspiring writers during the cost of living crisis.  

KKR, a private equity firm, is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy Simon & Schuster from Paramount.

The restructure will see the creation of three new strands, all headed up by executive publisher Jo Dickinson.

Bluemoose publishes no more than 10 books a year but Kevin Duffy knows how to pick a winnerThe two-up, two-down terraced house on a cobbled Hebden Bridge street does not look like the headquarters of a multi award-winning publishing house.There is no gleaming edifice, no sign and certainly no reception desk. The green front door…

TikTok recommendations are driving sales and launching authors’ careers as the social media app continues to reshape the industryThe famous Waterstones in London’s Piccadilly is a modernist/art deco building. It started life as a menswear store and has the feel of that sort of traditional shop that is fast disappearing. But this bookshop, like many…

Bloomsbury Publishing president Adrienne Vaughan has died in a boat collision reportedly off the Furore Fjord on the Amalfi Coast. The post US Publishers Mourn Bloomsbury’s Adrienne Vaughan appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Adrienne Vaughan was on family holiday and reportedly fell overboard when speedboat collided with a sailboatAdrienne Vaughan, the 45-year-old president of the US branch of the Bloomsbury publishing house, has been killed after a collision between a speedboat and a 45-metre sailboat on Italy’s Amalfi coast.Vaughan was on holiday in Italy with her husband and…

The second cycle of the biennial BücherFrauen-Literaturpreis – Book Women Prize – will name a winner during Frankfurter Buchmesse. The post Germany’s BücherFrauen, Book Women, Issue Their Prize’s Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Amazon reported increased sales in the second quarter ended June 30, 2023, up 11% to $134.4bn (£105.4bn) compared to the same period last year. 

Picador has announced a “major expansion” of its Picador Collection, launched in 2022 to celebrate Picador’s 50th anniversary.