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A celebration - and a poem - for Sidey
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Written by Liz Thomson   
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It must have been very heaven to have been in publishing in the 1960s and 1970s. An era when there were genuine battles to fight over books and issues that really mattered. When imprints stood for something. When “characters” were allowed to flourish, authors nurtured, risks taken, pot grown on the fire escape. Before “the suits” took over. The suits may these days not wear ties, but publishing - corporate publishing, an idea that would have seemed an oxymoron back then - is in a straitjacket.
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Scholastic appoints Bounce! for indie sales
Children's
Written by Nicholas Clee   
Bounce! Sales and Marketing is taking over representation of Scholastic titles to the book trade excluding key accounts and to schools, effective immediately.
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S&S acquires second book from Brown
Non-fiction
Written by Liz Thomson   
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Simon & Schuster has acquired a second book by Gordon Brown, following on from his first title with the publisher, Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, in 2010.
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Links of the day
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Written by Nicholas Clee   
"The progression to a John Lewis-style partnership takes time - it is something Toby [Blackwell] has his lawyers working on night and day." (Katie Perrior of Blackwell, quoted in Herald Series)

Interview with Rebecca Carter as she prepares to move from her editorial role at Random House to agenting with Janklow & Nesbit. (Publishing Perspectives)

Premier League Reading Stars 2012, including Joey Barton's selection of Dracula and Theo Walcott's recommendation of a book by one Theo Walcott. (Premier League website)

Nielsen BookData report demonstrates the link between metadata and sales. (BookData site)

Digital Book World: New retail channels, library ebook wars, and bundling. (Publishers Weekly)

German textbook publishers prepare a joint textbook distribution platform, in rivalry to Apple. (macgasm)
 
Book Brunch announces enhanced management team, prepares to launch new website
About BookBrunch
altBookBrunch, which provides the UK's daily serving of news and views from the book industry, enters its fourth year with an enhanced management team and a newly designed website.

Eric Green (left), founding partner of BDS, the bibliographic data provider which last year took a stake in BookBrunch, takes on the additional responsibility of CEO of BookBrunch. He will be joined by Cortina Butler as interim Managing Director. Co-founders Liz Thomson and Nicholas Clee remain as Joint Editors.

altButler (right), who recently stepped down from her position of Global Editor-in-Chief of Reader's Digest Books and Home Entertainment, will assist BookBrunch in developing its strategy for growth.
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