Vintage Classics is bringing back the works of British adventure novelist Hammond Innes in his centenary year, using a publishing strategy that balances conventional printing and print on demand (p.o.d.).

Innes, who was born in 1913 and died in 1998, wrote novels as well as children's and travel books, and his works were most...

Octopus Publishing Group has agreed to donate books to new charity venture Books For Free.

The green initiative is an arm of charity Healthy Planet, which sets up pop-up shops in areas across the country and gives away books to the public which would otherwise be pulped and put in landfill.

Octopus has given away 60,000 of its...