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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a further £4.9m from the Libraries Improvement Fund for 27 library services. 

The winners of the 100th BBC Audio Drama Awards have been revealed, featuring an adaptation of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (Doubleday).

IOP Publishing (IOPP) and Morressier have entered into a new partnership to develop an integrated platform aimed at streamlining the peer review and journal submission process.   

The shortlists have been unveiled for the 17th annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award, which has received a record-breaking 3,151 submissions from 60 countries, up from 3,000 entries from 55 countries last year. 

Dialogue’s new commercial imprint Renegade Books will focus on “Books that Break Rules”.

Micro press Lemon Quartz Publishing has announced its closure after two years in business. The company was founded in February 2021, and specialised in adult non-fiction titles.

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An all-female shortlist for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing has been unveiled, with seven authors including Jessie Burton and Sita Brahmachari up for the award, while six “outstanding” illustrators are in contention for the Medal for Illustration.

Selected from a total 469 nominations, these are the shortlists of three of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award's nine categories in its 17th edition. The post Sheikh Zayed Shortlists: Translation, Publishing and Tech, and Arab Culture appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced a new partnership with Waterstones to help support the festival as it transitions to a new site at the Edinburgh Futures Institute in 2024.