The Lib Dems are looking to introduce a minimum tax charge on multinational companies based on their global profits as part of this year’s budget negotiations after firms such as Amazon, Google and Starbucks outraged the public over how little Corporation tax they pay in the UK.

Tim Farron, the Lib Dem party president, said it...

E-book sales figures supplied by publishers for 2012 show a wide variance in the take-up for e-books when compared to print book sales. Fiction titles are showing a high degree of digital penetration but non-fiction books still sell many more copies in print than they yet do digitally.

For the first time the leading trade publishers...

The majority of independent booksellers saw a Christmas sales rise in 2012, with fall-out from the Amazon tax avoidance row one of the reasons cited for the lift.

Of 52 indies responding to The Bookseller's annual Christmas Trading Survey, 25 (48%) reported that sales were up over the festive period in comparison with...

E-books priced at 20p are still dominating Amazon’s Kindle store, holding the top three positions in its paid-for chart and with new titles added to the promotion.

Fifty Shades of Grey parody Fifty Sheds of Grey by C T Grey (Boxtree), a Christmas humour hit, is now being offered at 20p, alongside The Half-...