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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.

The third staging of the Desiblitz Literature Festival in Birmingham will feature both published authors and workshop programming. The post England’s South Asian Desiblitz Literature Festival Plans a Hybrid Edition appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The third staging of the Desiblitz Literature Festival in Birmingham will feature both published authors and workshop programming. The post England’s South Asian Desiblitz Literature Festival Plans a Hybrid Edition appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Publisher Picador says it is looking at changing passages in prize-winning memoir, which Clanchy intially claimed were not in the book at allPicador, the publisher of Kate Clanchy’s award-winning Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, is in discussions to update future editions of the book after several of Clanchy’s descriptions of her…

Three leading writers' organizations in Europe call for coordinated response to the Lukashenko regime's brutality. The post Belarus One Year After the Election: Writers, Translators, Journalists Speak Out appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

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HarperCollins has reported “record profits”, with global revenues growing 19% in the financial year ending 30th June 2021, according to figures from parent firm News Corp. 

An independent bookshop spotlighting women’s writing is opening in Edinburgh today (6th August), inspired by a successful book club. 

Vintage has acquired an essay anthology examining the craft of writing through the lens of race and culture, edited by novelists Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro.

Pan Macmillan has picked up a Regency-set romantic comedy by Lisa Berne, billed as “Bridgerton meets 'Groundhog Day'”.