Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler is to moderate a book trade panel answering questions at a "Publishers Question Time" event hosted by the Society of Young Publishers on 21st January.

Publishers Association chief executive Simon Juden, Booksellers Association president Graham Rand and Penguin m.d. Helen Fraser will be among...

Orion has postponed the release of one of its novels due to the resemblance of the story to the Baby P case. The Mother's Tale by Camilla Noli will now be published in September 2009 instead of it's original release date of January.

Angela McMahon, publicity manager at Orion, said that it was "really inappropriate at the...

A new version of Amazon's Kindle is tentatively scheduled to go on sale early next year, according to the TechCrunch website. It was originally scheduled for release in October in time for this holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software.

The images that surfaced of the new...

Total Q3 sales for Borders in the US fell 10%, to $693.4m, and the company posted a net loss of $172.2m for the period, but announced that it was no longer pursuing a sale of the business. The third quarter losses includes a series of one-time charges totaling $133.2 million, and excluding those charges the loss was about even with last year...