The hoped for holiday boost for the US book industry did not materialise in early December. Unit sales slipped back in the first full week of the month, dropping 6.6% at the outlets who report their sales to Nielsen BookScan, according to Publishers Weekly.

For the week ending 7th December, total units were 20.7m, down from 22....

Richard Milner is to leave Pan Macmillan next Friday (19th December). Milner re-joined Pan Macmillan in 2004 as non-fiction publisher.

The company said Milner was looking to make a change and seek new opportunities in the publishing world. It added that Milner had led Pan Macmillan’s non-fiction publishing through a period of major...

The Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah's Time of White Horses and the Egyptian novelist Mohamed el Bisatie's Hunger have made the shortlist of the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The Iraqi-born author Inaam Kachachi is also among the six finalists for The American Granddaughter.

The award,...

Google Book Search has added magazines archives to its online collection, with articles now showing up in search results.

Google has partnered with a number of publishers to digitise their offerings and link them in the book search. This includes selections from New York magazine, which now has hundreds of issues online from as...