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Nigel Roby

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Sydney Smith

George Eliot

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Alex Ross

Lawrence Krauss

Margaret MacMillan

Lionel Trilling

Kate Smith

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After a successful week at London Book Fair, our podcast today is focussing on Publishing priorities and the focus for the industry this year, as well as looking ahead to hear what the future might hold, with Nigel Roby, Owner and Chief Executive of The Bookseller.

Publishing Priorities: Focus for 2019 and Beyond, with Nigel Roby

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. In 2010 it was acquired from Nielsen by its then Managing Director, Nigel Roby, who is now Chief Executive, Owner and Publisher of the new, expanded entity.  I met with Nigel at The Bookseller's offices across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament, in London. Among other things we talk about the history and purpose of The Bookseller and its related enterprises; telling the trade about new books, informing rivals about their competitors' releases; quasi-catalogues; the Blitz; libraries under pressure; Waterstones; Mr. B's, Toppings and high streets;  Tim Waterstones's new memoir; Blackwell's; the leveling off of e-book sales and the production value of print books; subscription book clubs; and click and collect...plus we mull over some of the hotter topics that today face the book publishing and selling world.  

<a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Bookseller</a> is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. In 2010 it was acquired from Nielsen by its then Managing Director, Nigel Roby, who is now Chief Executive, Owner and Publisher of the new, expanded entity.  I met with Nigel at The Bookseller's offices across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament, in London. Among other things we talk about the history and purpose of The Bookseller and its related enterprises; telling the trade about new books, informing rivals about their competitors' releases; quasi-catalogues; the Blitz; libraries under pressure; <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/bookshops/bath" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Waterstones</a>; <a href="https://mrbsemporium.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mr. B's</a>, <a href="https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toppings</a> and high streets; <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-face-pressed-against-a-window/tim-waterstone/9781786496300" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Tim Waterstones's new memoir;</a> <a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blackwell's</a>; the leveling off of e-book sales and the production value of print books; subscription book clubs; and click and collect...plus we mull over some of the hotter topics that today face the book publishing and selling world.

Nigel Roby on The Bookseller magazine