Emma Donoghue's Josef Fritzl inspired Room (Picador) is the clear public favourite, in sales terms, of the six books competing for the 2010 Man Booker prize. The book sold 3,451 copies at UK bookshops last week, according to Nielsen BookScan data, almost three times as many copies as the next most popular purchase, Howard Jacobson...

Amazon.com has confirmed to Publishers Weekly that it is to remove free Kindle titles from its bestseller lists. Instead it will now publish two lists: one for paid books, and a second for free titles.

PW notes: "The date for the switch is vague—the rep would only say it will happen in 'a few weeks'—but...

The UK and US were the only major English-language books markets to sell fewer books in 2009 than in 2008, according to Nielsen BookScan. Despite the worldwide recession, booksellers in Australia, Ireland, and South Africa all saw the number of books sold grow. Where there was a decline in the market, it was steepest in trade non-fiction,...

January sales have had book-buyers flocking to the high street but post-Christmas sales are down on last year. In total, £28.2m was spent at UK book retailers, including online, last week - down 26.6% on the previous week and 9.7% year on year.

The high street performed slightly better, with sales through Nielsen BookScan's...