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[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44385593] Children’s author Holly Bourne appears to have scored a hit with her first fiction for grown-ups. Having heard the premise (nine monthly snapshots of whether a woman leaves a relationship clearly not right for her) I was further intrigued to see her

I found out recently about an ebook publisher that sold itself [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hachette-uk-buys-bookouture-500016] March 2017. In just five years, the startup – by Oliver Rhodes, a previous traditional London publisher’s Marketing exec – shipped an impressive nine million [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/

So I was in a fast-growing chain of English Midland-ish coffee shops. The owner was in this particular branch. Being video’d in front of the counter. For on the day in question, a significant – nay, laudable – progression was in motion. No more single-use cups. Now, takeaway drinkers had to

Bloomberg Game Changers. An episode on software [http://www.businessinsider.com.au/larry-ellison-2010-12] giant Oracle. A toxic corporate culture exposed, a despotic founder hellbent on being number one. A place where lying to customers was encouraged, if Sales didn’t make 200% of quota you were discarded and release after

So I heard an English movie critic promo-ing his latest book. 170,000 words on Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the ’80s Teen Movie. The engaging James King [https://twitter.com/jameskingmovies] obligingly suggested his Top Three: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986; from the maestro

So this Thrive app [https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/15380-introducing-the-thrive-app] is on a launch promo [https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/16/arianna-huffingtons-thrive-global-and-samsung-launch-tech-detox-app/] push. It seems to have grown out of the latest attempt to out-Gwyneth Goop, from the Huffington Post founder’s “lifestyle” effort of her own. Here’s the