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A petition has been launched calling on CILIP, the libraries and information association, to reinstate the Kate Greenaway medal after renaming it The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. 

Alice Swan has been promoted to children’s and YA associate publisher at Faber. She will be reporting to publisher Leah Thaxton. 

Scholastic UK has unveiled a special edition hardback boxed set of The Hunger Games series in anticipation of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes film release. 

The BA has revealed the initial plans for Bookshop Day, the annual celebration of bookshops across the UK and Ireland, taking place on 14th October.

Felicity Bryan Associates has unveiled the three writers selected for this year’s FBA New Voices programme.

TikTok parent company ByteDance has begun approaching authors with offers under its new publishing arm 8th Note Press, The Bookseller understands. 

The 584 tables have been sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair's 2023 literary agents center, a record over pre-pandemic booking levels. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Rights Center Reports a Sellout: 584 Tables appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Bolu Babalola, Douglas Stuart, Holly Jackson and more have been shortlisted for the inaugural TikTok Book Awards UK and Ireland.

After a survey revealed the stresses that authors face when placed in the spotlight for the first time, publishing houses and industry bodies have pledged extra training and pastoral careAuthor and publisher welfare has been a hot topic in the books industry of late. Publishing houses, trade unions and industry bodies have scrambled for solutions…

A historically significant Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that was barred from leaving the UK has been bought by the University of Leeds Libraries.