More publishers fail as e-books rise
independent.co.uk – Monday November 30, 2015
Readers shunning physical books for digital ones has contributed to a 58 per cent jump in the number of publishers failing, research has revealed.
J.K. Rowling vows never to work with 'rude' publisher after they rejected Harry Potter and crime novel
mirror.co.uk – Sunday November 29, 2015
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has sworn never to work with one particular publisher after they rejected her twice - the second time with a very rude letter.
She is the UK's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of £238million but it seems there's at least one person who isn't a fan.
Speaking in a new interview with the Guardian Rowling revealed that one of the publishers who turned down the first Harry Potter book, The Philosopher's Stone, also rejected her crime novel The Casual Vacancy written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
YA Debut Gets Six-Figure Deal, Sold to 16 Territories and Jerry Bruckheimer
publishersweekly.com – Wednesday November 25, 2015
A six-figure deal for North American rights to The Cruelty is the latest in a string of good things that have happened to Scott Bergstrom’s debut novel in just the past month. The manuscript, self-published a year ago, caught fire in October at the Frankfurt Book Fair with sales, so far, into 16 territories. “Every morning I wake up to more exciting e-mails,” said his agent, Tracey Adams of Adams Literary.
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