Publishers have joined retailers for the first time in offering customers up to 50% off books as part of Black Friday promotions today (23rd November).

"Black Friday" is a US promotional tradition, with retailers offering discounts on the day after Thanksgiving, marking the beginning of Christmas shopping.

Penguin is...

The former owner of Maher the Bookseller, which went out of business in June after 16 years trading, has opened another bookshop selling titles for up to 50% off r.r.p.

Tony Maher, who used to own his former business in the Howard Centre of Welwyn Garden City, recently opened The Bookshop in the shopping complex in the centre of...

The chief executive of Hachette would back price regulation to stop retailers selling books below cost price, delegates at the Book Industry Conference were told yesterday (17th May).

Tim Hely Hutchinson, who was one of the supporters of the abolition of the Net Book Agreement in the 1990s, said while he was "in my bones, a free...

Last month I spoke at The Bookseller's FutureBook conference on a familiar topic: the lessons that publishing can learn from the music industry. Most of these are now well known, so we tried to focus on the less obvious points. It struck me that one important difference between record labels and publishers is that (apart from one brief period...