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The Independent Publishers Guild is collaborate with the Book Chain Project to improve industry-wide understanding of environmental impacts in the supply chain.

Vicki Watson will be joining HarperCollins's publishing division HQ on 7th June in the newly created role of deputy marketing director, moving from her role as head of marketing at Canongate.  

Picador has promoted Gillian Fitzgerald-Kelly to commissioning editor at the Pan Mac imprint.

Penguin Press has signed Covid by Numbers, a "vital" data-driven examination of the coronavirus pandemic by leading statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters.  

J D Kirk’s An Isolated Incident (Zertex Crime) soared into the Bookstat e-book number one for the first full week of May, heading a chart groaning with new entries.

Germany is as much a multicultural country as the UK – with these words, the tone was set for a day of exchange between British and German publishing experts, almost one year after the publication of the "Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing" report in the UK. The aim was not to see who is doing better…

Orion was crowned Publisher of the Year at this year’s Nibbies—which were held online for the second year as a result of the pandemic.  

Raven Leilani has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for her "fearless" debut Luster (Picador).

The British Book Awards' three-hour digital prize program included Nibbie winners' announcements in 28 categories. The post The British Book Awards: 2021 Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

In its second year, the distributor's 'All About Audio' event hears from key companies' representatives on their offers and observations. The post Germany’s Bookwire Produces a Second ‘All About Audio’ Conference appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.