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Revenue for The Quarto Group declined in 2022 but adjusted operating profit improved thanks to “tight cost control, lower pre-publication and amortisation costs”, according to the company’s latest financial results.

The Bookseller will publish a third Black Issue on 26th May 2023, guest edited by associate editor Natasha Onwuemezi. 

Cathy Rentzenbrink has been announced as the new president of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, a position she will take up in September.

Peter Usborne CBE, founder of children’s publisher Usborne, has died aged 85. 

Donna Coonan, the longest-running editor of the Virago Modern Classics list, has announced she will step down in June after nearly 20 years. 

After digital and hybrid editions for three years, Singapore's Asian Festival of Children's Content goes fully physical again. The post In Singapore: the Asian Festival of Children’s Content Returns in May appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Geneva-based International Publishers Association is represented by speakers in a number of London Book Fair events. The post London Book Fair: International Publishers Association Events appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Bookseller’s annual Rising Stars list, now in its 13th year, is a celebration of the up-and-comers and future leaders of the British and Irish booktrade.

Penguin Business’ Ause Abdelhaq is joining the Pan division of Pan Macmillan as an editor on the non-fiction team.

Faber has reported “an excellent year" with top-line turnover coming in “well ahead of expectation” at £27.9m, topping the previous year’s £23.4m as the best in the company’s history.