The Bookseller.com

2nd December 2008

Philip Jones is the managing editor of theBookseller.com. He will blog with links and comment about the book business.

The online review

21.12.07

It is difficult to sum up a year that began with the triumphant return of Alan Sutton, and ended with the, erm, departure of Alan Sutton. My colleague Liz Bury does a sterling job of putting the year in perspective in her A to Z of 2007.

I've worked in this business for about 10 years, but it never fails to surprise. My personal highlights of the year were:

• Listening to Minna Fry over my morning porridge tell Radio Five Live listeners that Asda would be a "Harry Potter free zone". It wasn't.
• Being told by Fopp that its decision to cancel book orders was down to a warehouse move, that no-one seemed to know about.
• Charkin's move to Bloomsbury.
• Borders UK being put up for sale (the Wall Street Journal had the scoop).

Listed below are the top 25 stories reported on theBookseller.com since the site relaunched in February 2007:

1. fopp-puts-a-hold-on-book-supply.html
2. new-brown-unlikely-this-year.html
3. richard--judy-choose-best-kids -books.html
4. absolute-chaos-at-suttons-empire.html
5. low-salaries-lead-to-facebook- revolt.html
6. authors-in-bad-sex-award.html
7. fopp-goes-cash-only.html
8. css-stellar-fires-pfd-agents.html
9. booker-chair-attacks-reviewers.html
10. caroline-michel-takes-over-at- pfd.html
11. buchler-sets-up-his-own-united -agents.html
12. waterstones-card-goes-nationwide.html
13. michel-woos-pfd-agents.html
14. borders-announces-sale-of-uk-a rm.html
15. richard--judy-unveil-summer-li ne-up.html
16. blackwell-takes-awards-crown.html
17. little-brown-buys-piatkus.html
18. charkin-quits-macmillan-for-bl oomsbury.html
19. making-publishing-pay.html
20. caroline-michel-is-a-no-show-a t-fair.html
21. hachette-moves-to-firm-sale-on -backlist.html
22. fopp-closes-doors-as-administr ation-looms.html
23. agents-threaten-to-quit-pfd.html
24. bloomsbury-at-war-with-asda.html
25. book-depository-sales-double.html