Trade

The Booker Prize Foundation (BPF) has appointed Premier Comms to provide year-round public relations, marketing and event management services for the Booker Prize, International Booker Prize and BPF’s wider portfolio.

Amazon workers at a depot in Coventry are poised to go on strike in the New Year over a £15-an-hour pay claim after members voted yes in a ballot for industrial action. 

Gurnaik Johal is joining Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) as senior editor. 

The Heartstopper creator is named The Bookseller 151st in the latest book trade’s most influential list

Booklovers are invited to take part in The Bookseller’s annual book cover quiz. 

Publishers and agents will want to check the criteria to apply for publication and production subsidies for illustrated Norwegian titles. The post NORLA: Increased Production Grants for Illustrated Books From Norway appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

London's International Excellence Awards extend their nomination dates, and Hay's season opens with its Colombian festival dates. The post Industry Notes: London Book Fair Awards, Hay Festival in Colombia appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

A book to mark the 100th anniversary of the Book Society, written by publisher and book trade historian Maria Vassilopoulos, is brought out this month.

Jasmine Horsey has been promoted from senior commissioning editor to editorial director for non-fiction at Bloomsbury Trade.

Revenues increased by 12% year-on-year to $587.9m (£483m), in Scholastic’s latest set of quarterly results ending 30th November 2022.