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The latest picture book from illustrator Oliver Jeffers will hit bookshops later than planned this year because hardbacks are still at sea after the "Ever Given" ship became lodged in the Suez Canal in March.

Octopus Publishing Group has announced promotions and a restructure in its publicity and marketing department with both Matt Grindon and Megan Brown stepping up to more senior roles. 

If you are on Twitter, you couldn’t have missed it. Kate Clanchy’s memoir, that won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, is rife with racialised descriptions of her students. Words such as chocolate and almond used to describe skin colour, tired tropes of hair or size of bosoms used to stereotype different ethnicities, the shape of skull and other…

Saga Egmont has launched new partnerships with indie publishers Muswell Press and Violet Gaze Press with a focus on publishing a range of diverse audiobooks.

Digital commercial fiction publisher Hera Books has been acquired by Canelo for an undisclosed fee, with Hera's co-founder and m.d. Lindsey Mooney stepping down from the firm to pursue other opportunities. 

UK book manufacturer Clays has ordered a new printing press which will have the capacity to produce roughly 50 million books a year.

Andersen Press will publish the first middle-grade novel from Carnegie Medal-winner Melvin Burgess, to be illustrated by Chris Mould.

Author and astrologer Judy Hall has died aged 77, her publisher Octopus has announced. 

Online retail giant Amazon has cut back its pioneering drone delivery team, but says it will still have a Prime Air presence in the UK.

The September reopening plan for Hachette Book Group is postponed, even as NPD Books charts a good July in US print–but questions ahead. The post NPD Sees the US Print Market Up in July, ‘Momentum Slowing’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.