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Book and Periodical Publishing

London, England 56,914 followers

At the Heart of Publishing since 1858

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At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚 News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨ Online, thebookseller.com is the book trade's most visited UK site with over 250,000 unique monthly users. On Twitter, @thebookseller has more than 240,000 followers. Our jobsinbooks site is where those in the trade, or wanting to enter it, look for their next role. The British Book Awards - or 'Nibbies' - are the main arbiter of book trade success and a celebration of the UK's leading creative industry - such as Publisher and Independent Bookshop of the Year. Winning a British Book Award is the ultimate accolade in the publishing and bookselling business. The Books of the Year programme rewards the combination of commercial and literary success. In 2018 Gail Honeymanwon for Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. FutureBook is Europe's largest, most significant, conference for innovation in the book trade. The FutureBook Awards reward and recognise the very best work and people operating in the digital part of the book trade. Our Marketing & Publicity conference is the only dedicated conference for new challenges in publishing, such as customer insight and B2C marketing. The Children's Conference, is a key annual date for those in the vibrant children’s publishing sector, covering both physical books and the new opportunities for exploiting intellectual property in apps, TV and licensing. Launched in 2015, The Bookseller's YA Book Prize rewards the best YA fiction books for Teenagers and Young Adults published from authors in the UK and Ireland, from dystopian and sci-fi literature to comedy, horror or drama.

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Book and Periodical Publishing

Company size

11-50 employees

Headquarters

London, England

Type

Privately Held

Founded

1858

Specialties

Publishing, Subscriptions, Conferences, and Charts

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Employees at The Bookseller

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And we're done! From insightful panels, expert keynotes, brilliant showcases and so much more, #KidsConf was a blast! Send us your favourite moments, quotes and pictures 📸
Last but by no means least, Jamie Smart now joins us at #KidsConf for an endnote exploring what publishing can do to help comics to be taken as seriously as they deserve. 🎨 Find the new talent 🎨 Once you've found them, stick with them 🎨 Value the human soul above everything else 🎨 Let's dispel this myth that comics are somehow lesser reading material What else do you think publishing can do to support comics? David Fickling Books
We are now welcoming to the #KidsConf stage Cassie Chadderton, chief executive of World Book Day Charity, to delve into their initiatives on reading and literacy. 📚 Cassie tells us about this year's Read Your Way campaign, which emphasises putting children in the driving seat, letting go of pressures and expectations and promoting choice in how and what children want to read. 📚
Join the #KidsConf roundtable! To delve into the solution to the reading crisis, we are joined by Caroline Cummins (The Publishers Association), Alison David (HarperCollins Publishers UK ), Sanjee de Silva (Sweet Cherry Publishing), Martin Galway (National Literacy Trust) and Debbie Hicks (The Reading Agency). 📚 Our panellists say that the solution must start with parents, that regularly reading aloud to children is vital in building reading habits and showing that reading is something fun that you can enjoy, and not just a skill to learn - do you agree? 📚 Stay tuned for more insights from our Children's Conference throughout the day 💡
Justine Daniels, ceo of Read for Good, takes to the stage at #KidsConf to showcase a collaboration with National Book Tokens and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Justine begins by explaining three principles to get children to read: 📚 Access to a wide range of books 📚 The freedom and confidence to choose, without judgement 📚 Inspiration to spend time reading Stay tuned for more insights from our Children's Conference throughout the day 💡
Zaahida Nabagereka, Lit in Colour's senior social impact manager is joining us now at #KidsConf to showcase their research 🖍️ ✨ 100x more students now study a text by an author of colour for Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Literature, with higher levels of classroom engagement reported by both teachers and students ✨ Stay tuned for more insights from our Children's Conference throughout the day 💡
How can you sustain a career as a creative in Kids' publishing? Chitra Soundar, Eishar Brar, Molly Ker Hawn and Chanté Timothy answer this question in our next panel at #KidsConf💡 What do you believe is the greatest challenge currently facing authors and illustrators in the UK? 🖍️ Decreasing earnings 🎨 Lack of copyright knowledge 🖍️ Changes in publishing contracts 🎨 Market access and visibility Let us know in the comments... 💡

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