At least 12 publishing houses across the UK and Europe are set to take legal proceedings against distributor Art Books International after the firm went into voluntary liquidation last Monday.

Working as a collective, the group of publishers is seeking to retrieve unpaid monies and stock that has not been sold. Hampshire-based ABI is an...

Book printer Butler & Tanner is to be relaunched as Butler, Tanner & Dennis, following its acquisition by publisher and poet Felix Dennis. Dennis is the sole owner of the company, which is due to begin trading on 1st August.

The firm will continue to trade from its premises in Frome, with 80 out of 287 of its former members of...

Hodder & Stoughton is planning “a lavish production” to repackage Alan Titchmarsh as a more serious novelist after poaching him from Simon & Schuster last April.

Rowena Webb, publishing director at Hodder & Stoughton, said the new look for Folly, Titchmarsh’s latest novel, better reflected his writing. The...

Anova's profit climbed by more than 340% to £825,591 in the year to end-February 2008, despite a fall in turnover of 11% to £12.6m. Profit the previous year was £186,367 on sales of £14.1m.

Robin Wood, c.e.o of Anova, said: "The top line was lower than we had expected, and there were three main reasons...