Bloomsbury is breaking cover to create a website supporting the launch of former MI5 chief Stella Rimington's first book with the publisher, intending to build her and her protagonist, Liz Carlyle, as a brand.

The site, Stellarimington.com, which goes live this week, is laid out like a...

The Independent Publishers Guild will host on 30th June a "meet the developers" session with IC tomorrow, part of the Technology Strategy Board, a Government-backed body that works to promote growth through innovation.

The event will feature presentations from some of the finalists from the ePublishing category of the...

Authors and illustrators with technology skills will have an "undoubted advantage" in the emerging digital market, said Puffin  as the winner of its inaugural Digital Prize was announced. The winner, announced on Tuesday 10th May at an event at Puffin, was Shelley Revill for her entry Monsterology. Revill studied graphic design...

E-book sales in the US rocketed more than 200% in February, overtaking trade paperbacks as the biggest category, according to figures released by the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

E-book sales were $90.3m, growing 202.3% compared with February 2010. Downloaded audiobooks were $6.9m, an increase of 36.7%. Adult trade...