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‘Respectable year' for Profile
Independent publisher Profile saw a sharp drop in profit for the 12 months to end March 2014, but has deemed it a "respectable" financial year...
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Profile Books acquires Third Millennium Information
Profile Books has purchased the business of specialist publisher Third Millennium Information Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Profile assumed responsibility for Third Millennium publishing from...
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Publishers encouraged by Waterstones revival
Waterstones has passionate booksellers who are “handselling again”, breaking début novelists and “building careers”, according to publishers. Chief executives and sales directors of publishing houses...
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Indies punching above weight ahead of IPG Conference
An increasingly ”sympathetic” Waterstones, a more agreeable Amazon, direct-to-consumer sales and the mining of niche markets have given independent publishers a boost ahead of the...
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Industry seconds Franklin’s fears for further cuts to libraries
Libraries, publishers and bookshops will suffer under a Conservative government, a leading independent publisher has warned.When collecting the Independent Publisher of the Year trophy...
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Trade has mixed views on Shamsie's Year of Publishing Women
Author Kamila Shamsie is “right to draw attention” to gender inequality in publishing, but her suggestion of a year in which only books by women...
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Franklin defends trade non-fiction publishing
Profile m.d. Andrew Franklin has defended UK trade publishers against criticism that they are not producing good non-fiction books.Franklin was writing in the Guardian...
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Profile turnover exceeds £10m
Profile has seen a “breakthrough financial year” with turnover exceeding £10m for the first time in the company’s history, the publisher has said. Turnover was...
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Mollet will 'be missed' as head of PA
Richard Mollet has spearheaded "unprecedented change" in the industry and given the Publishers Association "real energy and a sense of direction," publishers have said following...
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Profile promotes Westland to editorial deputy
Profile Books has promoted Hannah Westland to the position of Andrew Franklin’s editorial deputy.Westland has been the publisher at Serpent’s Tail since 2012, and...
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Profile launches new cycling imprint, Profile Pursuit
Profile is set to launch a new imprint, Profile Pursuit, which will publish “high quality and original” cycling books.James Spackman, formerly m.d of Watkins...
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Franklin: 'toxic competition' in large publishers
The atmosphere in some large publishing houses is "toxic" as imprints are forced to compete against each other for big titles, Profile Books' owner Andrew...
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Accent Press to become Living Wage employer
Accent Press founder Hazel Cushion has called on the industry to end “morally wrong” unpaid internships and improve diversity by signing up to pay the...
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Seven new publishers join Independent Alliance
Seven new publishers are joining the Independent Alliance following the closure of Faber Factory Plus.
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Andrew Franklin reflects on the work of the Independent Alliance in its first decade.
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Profile Books appoints editorial directors
Profile Books has promoted Rebecca Gray to editorial director for Profile and Serpent’s Tail and appointed Ed Lake editorial director of Profile.
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Profile to publish official history of the BBC
Profile Books will publish The BBC: A Century in British Life, the "official history" of the BBC by David Hendy to coincide with the corporation’s...
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Trade praises 'fresh' new Waterstones store
Publishers, writers and agents praised the new Waterstones Tottenham Court Road as “fresh” and “funky” at its official opening last night.
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Franklin: low literacy levels 'a national disgrace'
Profile m.d. Andrew Franklin has spoken out again to condemn library cuts, telling Publishing Scotland's annual book conference that "shameful" destruction of libraries in the...
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Expanded Independent Alliance 'reflects changed market'
"The independent sector is in good health and good heart, but it needs to think freshly about the way the world is," Faber c.e.o. Stephen...
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