Book sales fell by just half a percent in 2009, confirming many early-year predictions from within the trade that the cheap price of books would offer resistance to the recession. But sales in high street bookshops suffered more serious falls over the year.

A grand total of £1.752bn was spent on 235.7m books in 2009, down 1.2...

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Bantam Press) is the book trade's Christmas number one, in a week when poor weather badly affected sales.

Brown's bestseller sold 58,468 copies at UK book retailers last week, 2,546 copies more than Guinness World Records 2010 in second position. As the charts are based on single...

Book sales have jumped 11.5% week-on-week, or 2% on the same week last year, to £69.1m, bolstered by the Borders "closing down" sales, and continued heavy discounting at other major book retailers.

By volume, however, sales were up 4.5% year on year, to 8.9m. It means that sales on a rolling 12-month comparison have...

Book sales jumped by almost a third last week, led by a hardback non-fiction sector firmly on the rebound following poor October and November sales.

According to Nielsen BookScan data, 8.1m books were snapped up at UK book retailers last week, up 29% week on week, with spending up 28.2% to £61.9m. Sales were up 3% on the same week...