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Hello and welcome to our blog - brand new for Summer 2021. We will be posting topical items here, sometimes with with links to newspaper and magazine articles which may be of interest to clients and prospective clients.

Do children actually like reading horror stories?

Editorial Team

Apr 18, 2022
1 min

Do children actually like reading horror stories?

According to a recent post (Apr 12, 2022) at BookTrust, they actually do! In a fascinating article about scary books for 8-12 year olds,...

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Editorial Team

Feb 18, 2022
1 min

Bookstore Sales Rose 28% in 2021

An article in Publishers Weekly yesterday reported that bookstore sales last year had almost bounced back to pre-Covid 2019 levels, which...

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Government decides not to change copyright exhaustion laws.

Editorial Team

Jan 19, 2022
1 min

Government decides not to change copyright exhaustion laws.

Yesterday (Tuesday 18 January 2022), the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) announced that it will, for now, not be proceeding with the...

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Christmas 2021: Authors and critics on their best books of the year. The Novella gets a mention!

Editorial Team

Dec 7, 2021
1 min

Christmas 2021: Authors and critics on their best books of the year. The Novella gets a mention!

In a recent article in the i newspaper, Elizabeth Day, Lisa Taddeo, David Nicholls and others reveal their top reads. Of general...

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Josh Howarth at Exploding Topics talks about Publishing Trends for 2021 - 2024.

Editorial Team

Nov 30, 2021
1 min

Josh Howarth at Exploding Topics talks about Publishing Trends for 2021 - 2024.

After giving us a heads up on the size of the industry ($26 billion in revenue in the US alone), Josh Howarth goes on to point out that...

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“Is Amazon Changing the Novel?” asks Parul Sehgal in November’s edition of The New Yorker.

Editorial Team

Nov 15, 2021
1 min

“Is Amazon Changing the Novel?” asks Parul Sehgal in November’s edition of The New Yorker.

In a fascinating, and often insightful piece, Parul Sehgal, a staff writer at The New Yorker who previously worked as a book critic for...

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2020 was a pivotal year for publishers and readers alike, figures now reveal.

Editorial Team

Nov 1, 2021
1 min

2020 was a pivotal year for publishers and readers alike, figures now reveal.

The pandemic forced a change in people’s social habits, people read books more often than they had previously. A few years ago it was...

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