The winners of the School Library Association Information Book Award 2011 are:
Under 7s
* The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith
7-12
* Animals at the Edge by Jonathan and Marilyn Baillie
12-16 and overall winner
* How To Make A Universe With 92 Ingredients by Adrian Dingle
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Prix Goncourt won by biology teacher Alexis Jenni
A biology teacher has won France's top literary prize with a novel about the country's colonial wars. Alexis Jenni received the Prix Goncourt for his debut, L'Art Francais De La Guerre (The French Art of War). As is traditional, the 10 Euro (£8.60) prize was handed out at the Drouant restaurant in Paris. The prize virtually guarantees high book sales
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Wapping Project Bookshop (UK)
The Wapping Project Bookshop - an independent bookshop specialising in art, photography and new fiction, in a greenhouse
John Wiley and Sons sue 27 BitTorrent users
John Wiley and Sons have sued 27 BitTorrent users at a federal court in New York. The publisher claims that the defendants have shared copies of its "For Dummies" books without permission, and demands compensation. After several movie studios started filing lawsuits against BitTorrent users last year, Wiley is the first book publisher to take this kind of action
Cambridge University Press launches University Publishing Online
University Publishing Online provides aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America (based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books (based in India), and Cambridge University Press. Access to content from Edinburgh University Press and Nottingham University Press will be available from early 2012
2011 Man Asian Literary Prize longlist
The longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011 has been announced:
* The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
* The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
* Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua
* The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
* The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
* River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
* 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
* The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
* Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
* The Valley of Masks by Tarun J. Tejpal
* Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
* The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
* The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
* The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
* Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua
* The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
* The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
* River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
* 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
* The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
* Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
* The Valley of Masks by Tarun J. Tejpal
* Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
* The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
Interview with Mark Allin, SVP Trade and Professional at Wiley
In this exclusive interview for Digital Book World, Rich Fahle of Astral Road Media interviews Mark Allin, Senior Vice President, Professional and Trade at John Wiley & Sons, who discusses global publishing, digital in markets outside the trade, and how to take brands into new kinds of media
National Non-Fiction Day 2011
National Non-Fiction Day is an annual celebration, initiated by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups in partnership with Scholastic Children’s Books. It aims to celebrate all that is brilliant about non fiction and show that it's not just fiction that can be read and enjoyed for pleasure - 3 November 2011
PA International Conference (UK)
The 2011 International Conference takes place on 15 December 2011 at Fishmongers' Hall, London, UK. This year's conference is titled The Changing Scene in International Markets for UK Publishers
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