Trade

A Derbyshire independent publisher that launched during the pandemic has opened up its own bookshop with a focus on small presses.

Sceptre will publish “an optimistic vision" of the future after Covid-19, Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, by leading professor of globalisation, Ian Goldin of Oxford University  

Waterstones m.d. James Daunt has said the chain was “exceptionally busy” after reopening last week while reiterating that the decision to close bookshops, particularly during the second lockdown, “made no sense”.

Educational lists have spoken of their relief after the Department for Education said it would not further develop its Letters and Sounds programme for phonics learning.

Scottish book production company Palimpsest has rebranded for the first time in 27 years, with a new logo design and website structure.  

The Booksellers Association has joined UK retailers and the Home Office in supporting a new campaign launched by the Crimestoppers charity, urging customers to treat shop workers with respect.

One of the best opportunities I’ve been granted this year simultaneously turned out to the be one of the most challenging: judging the trade categories of the British Book Awards.

A debut title from Bafta-winning actor and writer of “I May Destroy You” Michaela Coel, Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, has been scooped by Ebury Press.

London writers development charity Spread the Word is supporting an online fundraising event for writers in Saint Vincent, in the wake of the La Soufriere volcano eruption.

Points of ideal translation contracts–including cover credit for a translator's work–are included in the Guild's newly released model. The post The Authors Guild Releases Its Model Translation Contract, a First appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.