Bookseller redux: Friday 26th June issue - The Book Depository blog

Each Monday, here on Editor's Corner, I run through the latest issue of the Bookseller magazine and pick out the bits and pieces of book industry news that catch my eye.

This quick round-up of book stuff is culled from the pages of last Friday's 26th June issue:

• supermarket chain "Sainsbury's is to relaunch its adult book club and introduce a children's book club as part of its increased focus on books"
• Russell Brand's "'My Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal'... has been pulled from the autumn schedule. The flamboyant comedian has been unable to write the sequel to his bestselling 2007 memoir... 'because of his work commitments'"
• Random House company "Cornerstone has announced a new internal structure, which has seen Kate Elton, the current publishing director for Arrow, also take on the role of publishing director for Century. Century publishing director Mark Booth has resigned"
• the "exclusive foreign travel book deal brokered between Penguin and W H Smith Travel has been branded a 'retrograde and regrettable step' as the row about the exclusive tie-up continues"
• Edward Hogan "was revealed as the winner of the second £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for his debut novel Blackmoor"
• Roy Clare, "the chief executive of the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA), has rejected as 'wounding and untrue' the accusation that the MLA's response to a recent Freedom of Information (FoI) request on its dealings with Swindon libraries was incomplete"
• Phaidon "is to publish a book in which art collector and advertising guru Charles Saatchi answers 'with brutal frankness' some 200 questions put to him by journalists, critics and members of the public"
• The Curzon Group, "founded to revive interest in British thriller writing, has secured a deal with W H Smith Travel to hold what is thought to be the first ever writers' airport tour"
• a "buyer may have been found for the Methvens bookshop in Chertsey"
• and the most exciting news of the week... The Book Depository (yes, us!) "has begun testing a new North American website"