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Tucker by Chadwick Moore sells just 3,227 copies in first week after publication on 1 August, Publishers Weekly figures revealA much-hyped biography of the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has struggled to find favour with readers, a leading US publ…
Young people sometimes lack ‘sense of history’ to read texts with dated language, argues bestselling authorJacqueline Wilson has said editing children’s books to remove inappropriate and dated language is sometimes justified because young people do not…
Activist Mikaela Loach staged a protest over investment firm’s ‘bankrolling’ of the climate crisis A leading climate crisis author has staged a walkout at Edinburgh international book festival in protest at its sponsor’s links to fossil fuel companies….
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Internet Archive and a group of leading book publishers told a Manhattan federal court on Friday that they have resolved aspects of their legal battle over the Archive’s digital lending of their sca…
The disappearance of a statue of the comic book artist in his Belgian birthplace was thought to be an act of decolonisationIt would have been a suitable assignment for Tintin, the intrepid Belgian boy reporter and his multi-talented, intuitive dog, Sno…
Amazon removed several books believed to be written using AI and listed under a real author’s name. Decrypt reports: When professor Jane Friedman complained about books that she didn’t write being attributed to her on Monday, ecommerce giant Amazon ini…
Pan Macmillan will publish the former first minister’s as-yet-untitled memoirNicola Sturgeon’s “deeply personal and revealing” memoir will be published in 2025 by Pan Macmillan, after nine publishers bid for it at auction.After her resignation as Scotl…
Standards committee chair says in new book he has been groped by fellow MPs on several occasionsUK politics live – latest updatesThe chair of the House of Commons standards committee has said he has been sexually assaulted by fellow MPs on several occa…
Paramount said on Monday it had reached a deal to sell Simon and Schuster, one of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses in the United States, to the private-equity firm KKR, in a major changing of the guard in the books business. From a re…
Bluemoose publishes no more than 10 books a year but Kevin Duffy knows how to pick a winnerThe two-up, two-down terrace on a cobbled Hebden Bridge street does not look like the headquarters of a multi award-winning publishing house. There is no gleamin…