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...

Angry Robot editor Lee Harris and steampunk author Scott Harrison have set up a non-profit e-book publishing company. H&H Books plans to publish works and contribute funds to charitable causes.

Voices from the Past will be the first title from the publisher, an anthology of flash fiction with over 20 authors already attached...

The Book People is organising a charity walk to raise money for the Chase children's hospice charity in memory of former Random House group managing director Peter Bowron, who died last year.

The inaugural 10-mile Catteshall Stroll will take place on 11th September and will begin at the Book People's head office in Godalming,...

Philip Reeve, Suzanne LaFleur and Chris Priestley are just some of the authors which will have titles given away for free to children in this years Booked Up campaign.

Booked Up, run by Booktrust, allows year seven pupils choose one free book from a list of 19 titles that include fiction, non fiction and poetry.  By Christmas, more...