''BookBrunch'' is a British subscription-based website and digital newsletter for the international publishing industry. It is jointly edited by Nicholas Clee and Neill Denny, both former editors of ''

The Bookseller ''The Bookseller'' is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. Philip Jones is editor-in-chief of the weekly print edition of the magazine and the website. The magazine is home to the ''Bookseller''/Diagram Prize for Oddest ...

''. Nicholas Clee is a former judge of the Booker Prize and author. Neill Denny was previously editor of

Retail Week Retail Week is a London-based news website, data service, events producer and magazine covering the retail industry, primarily in the United Kingdom. History and profile Founded in 1988 by financial journalist Patience Wheatcroft and her husba ...

. As well as a daily news email, ''BookBrunch'' produces print Show Dailies for both the

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and the

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in partnership with ''

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'', the American weekly book trade news magazine, as well as a magazine to accompany the

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History

Nicholas Clee and Liz Thomson, former editor of the now defunct trade paper ''Publishing News'' (1979–2008), set up ''BookBrunch'' in 2008 with private backing. Bibliographic Data Services (BDS), a data provision and web hosting company, bought a majority share in the service in 2011, when Eric Green, Managing Director of Digital at BDS, became BookBrunch's CEO. Liz Thomson left ''BookBrunch'' in 2015, with Neill Denny joining in January 2016.

Present day

In addition to the joint editors, Lucy Nathan and Julie Vuong provide editorial support and interviews, and there is a roster of regular contributors, including Roger Tagholm (a round-up of international book industry news), Alastair Horne (academic and STM news), and Nicolette Jones (children's news). Jo Henry, formerly managing director of Book Marketing Limited (BML) and ''Publishing News'' and Research Director at

Nielsen BookScan BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by The NPD Group in the United States and the Nielsen Company in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sout ...

, has been Managing Director since April 2018, and David Roche, previously of

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News C ...

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and

Borders UK Borders (UK) Ltd., also known as Borders & Books etc., was established as a Borders Group subsidiary in 1998, and in 2007 became independent of the US parent company. At its peak after separation from the US parent, it traded from its 41 Border ...

, is non-executive Chair. ''BookBrunch''s daily morning news email covers developments across publishers and booksellers, including acquisition deals by publishers, company results, job changes, literary awards, festivals, plus columnists and profiles of industry personnel. ''BookBrunch'' has a media partnership with the London Book Fair (LBF) to support LBF's Trailblazer Awards, created to celebrate the next generation of the UK publishing industry. In November 2018 ''BookBrunch'', in partnership with the London Book Fair and Nielsen BookScan, launched the Selfies book awards, a prize for the best

self-published Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using POD (pr ...

author in the UK sponsored by IngramSpark, a division of the

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. For 2021 there are three categories of books being judged, adult fiction, children's books and autobiography/memoir.

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External links

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