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Book Depository, the UK-based online bookseller set up by a former Amazon employee and bought by Amazon in 2011, is closing down. 

HarperCollins UK has acquired award-winning children’s publisher Barrington Stoke. 

The Reading Agency is launching a new initiative – “The Road to Reading” – to encourage new and lapsed readers.

The Windham-Campbell Prize winners for 2023 have been announced, with historian Susan Williams and essayist Darran Anderson taking the awards for non-fiction.

One educated in Madrid and the other in Barcelona, Manuel Sansigre and Carlos Pérez are promoted by PRH. The post PRH International: Global Corporate Promotions for Sansigre, Pérez appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The 11th edition of the Windham-Campbell Prizes features an increased grant of US$175,000 for each of eight recipients this year. The post From Yale, the $1.4 Million Windham-Campbell Prizes’ 2023 Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Eleanor Catton and John Agard will be hosting events at the Essex Book Festival this year, which will take place in over 40 venues across the county from Thursday 1st June to Saturday 1st July.

Remote working, research into sustainability and staff training is helping Springer Nature Group become a more sustainable business according to its annual Sustainable Business Report.

Storm Publishing has announced Dreamscape Media, independent publisher of audiobooks, will be its audiobook publishing partner from May 2023 onwards.

Digital bookseller Rakuten Kobo has announced Kobo Elipsa 2E, an upgraded e-reader, digital notebook, and audiobook device.