Gollancz has appointed Darren Nash to the newly-created role of digital publisher.

Nash joins from Orbit, where he was editorial director. Gollancz said he would be responsible for "the imprint's progress into its digital future", which will include developing enhanced e-books and apps, backlist projects, building virtual...

The agency model has come under increased scrutiny in the UK following the news that Amazon was poised to launch a co.uk Kindle Store, with the retailer insisting publishers will not be able to set the price of e-books.

One publisher told The Bookseller Apple had already begun to soften its agency terms prior to Amazon's...

Sceptre has bought a book by "extraordinary" Nick Papadimitriou,­ who has spent much of his adult life walking and documenting the miles surrounding his home in Child's Hill, north London, in a study he calls "deep topography". 

 
Jocasta Hamilton, deputy publisher at Sceptre, acquired British...

Weltbild is back in business after a period of extensive restructuring

Figures for fiscal 2009/10 (to end-June) show turnover up slightly to €1.65bn (£1.37bn), establishing the Bavaria-based company once again as Germany’s largest bookselling operation with a market share of 18%. As a privately held business Weltbild...