The Bookseller
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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.[1] The magazine is home to the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to the book with the oddest title. The award is organised by The Bookseller's diarist, Horace Bent, and had been administered in recent years by the former deputy editor, Joel Rickett, and former charts editor, Philip Stone. We Love This Book is its quarterly sister consumer website and email newsletter.
Editor | Philip Jones |
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Categories | Publishing, books |
Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 30,000 |
First issue | 1858; 166 years ago (1858) |
Company | formerly Bookseller Media Ltd., now The Stage Media Company Ltd. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London, England |
Language | English |
Website | www |
ISSN | 0006-7539 |
The subscription-only magazine is read by around 30,000 persons each week, in more than 90 countries, and contains the latest news from the publishing and bookselling worlds, in-depth analysis, pre-publication book previews and author interviews. It is the first publication to publish official weekly bestseller lists in the UK. It has also created the first UK-based e-book sales ranking. The website is visited by 160,000 unique users each month.
The magazine also produces approximately a dozen specials on an annual basis, including its Books of The Year and four "Buyers Guides". The Bookseller also publishes three daily newspapers at the annual London Book Fair, in April, the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair, in October.