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HarperCollins and AI: a brain-training deal to watch closely

This week, HarperCollins became the first of the big trade publishers to agree to a licensing arrangement with a company developing artificial intelligence. It won’t be the last.

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After the shock: Kingsolver and Everett win at hope-filled 75th National Book Awards

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Royalties survey sparks calls for change as Society of Authors reveals 'increased reliance on hardship grants'

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Richard Flanagan becomes the first author to win both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Booker

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Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win

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Rebecca Yarros Interview

Today's News Stories

Bloomsbury enters into distribution agreement with Spotify

TikTok owner ByteDance to sell print books from 2025 under publishing imprint

Microsoft launches its own publishing imprint 8080 Books

Authors including Julia Donaldson and Philip Pullman to auction off handwritten notes for charity

Lucas Maxwell and Tommy Finlayson win the Times/Chicken House annual writing competition

Goncourt literary prize winner Kamel Daoud sued for 'violating medical confidentiality' in winning novel

Sales of Captain Sir Tom Moore's books 'did not go towards the fundraiser's charity', investigation finds

James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 winners announced

Historian Alice Loxton's Eighteen crowned Blackwell’s Book of the Year 2024

Vintage re-prints 250k copies of Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning Orbital

Reshuffle at Hachette for Russell Evans and James Linney

Sally Rooney's Intermezzo named Foyles Book of the Year

Durnell Marketing acquires sales agency Avicenna Partnership

Conor Niland's Racket is first tennis book to win William Hill Sports Book Award in 25 year-history

Colm Tóibín’s ‘masterpiece’ named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year 2024

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Jobs in Books

Senior Designer, Cornerstone (12-month FTC)

Cornerstone are looking for a talented Senior Designer to work across all of our imprints. This is a 12-month fixed term contract to cover a period of parental leave, and we are looking for someone to start by early March 2025.

Rights Report

Bloomsbury triumphs in four-way auction for Natasha Siegel's gothic fantasy

HarperNonFiction snaps up book from anthropologist and 'long-termism' expert Ella Saltmarshe

Hay Festival Global appoints Jay Hunt as chair of trustees

Cambridge University Press signs new climate title from Mike Berners-Lee

Scottish Mountaineering Press to publish its first children’s title from Barbara Henderson

Picador triumphs in 'heated' auction for Annie Bartlett novel at Frankfurt Book Fair

Bloom Books to publish six books from Lucy Score

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Today's News Stories

Bloomsbury enters into distribution agreement with Spotify

TikTok owner ByteDance to sell print books from 2025 under publishing imprint

Authors including Julia Donaldson and Philip Pullman to auction off handwritten notes for charity

Microsoft launches its own publishing imprint 8080 Books

Lucas Maxwell and Tommy Finlayson win the Times/Chicken House annual writing competition

Goncourt literary prize winner Kamel Daoud sued for 'violating medical confidentiality' in winning novel

Sales of Captain Sir Tom Moore's books 'did not go towards the fundraiser's charity', investigation finds

James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 winners announced

Historian Alice Loxton's Eighteen crowned Blackwell’s Book of the Year 2024

Royalties survey sparks calls for change as Society of Authors reveals 'increased reliance on hardship grants'

Reshuffle at Hachette for Russell Evans and James Linney

Vintage re-prints 250k copies of Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning Orbital

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Latest Issue

22nd November 2024

In this week's issue:
University Presses: Interview with Oxford Languages president Casper Grathwohl leads our 2024 focus
Author Profile: Garrett Carr talks his adult fiction début, The Boy from the Sea
New Titles: Paperback Previews: February 2025
Bestsellers: Orbital shoots straight to the top of the charts after Booker win

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Mind, Body, Spirit books deserve more respect

by Tania Ahsan

Why is publishing still so sniffy about the Mind, Body, Spirit category when it drives so many sales?

HarperCollins and AI: a brain-training deal to watch closely

by Philip Jones

This week, HarperCollins became the first of the big trade publishers to agree to a licensing arrangement with a company developing artificial intelligence. It won’t be the last.

Free but not easy

by John Bond

Freelancers are more vital than ever to the book trade, and we need to lift up the best.

After the shock: Kingsolver and Everett win at hope-filled 75th National Book Awards

by Gayle Feldman

Barbara Kingsolver and Percival Everett announced winners at the 75th National Book Awards, held in New York.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Mind, Body, Spirit books deserve more respect

by Tania Ahsan

Why is publishing still so sniffy about the Mind, Body, Spirit category when it drives so many sales?

HarperCollins and AI: a brain-training deal to watch closely

by Philip Jones

Free but not easy

by John Bond

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Bestsellers

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Weekly print bestsellers based on data supplied by Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

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Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win

The announcement of Orbital (Vintage) by Samantha Harvey as the Booker Prize winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts, breaking Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid’s three-week run in first place.

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