Bloomsbury is launching a series of ornithology titles as enhanced e-books which will include birdsong alongside full-colour pictures.

The digital editions of the Helm Field Guides are optimised for iPad, but are also available on iPhones and some iPods. They have been developed for iBooks using text and images from the original books...

The French government and publishers association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE) are standing by their position to maintain a reduced VAT rate on unenriched e-books, even though the European Commission has said it will refer France and Luxembourg...

Little, Brown has become the first publisher to launch a digital imprint devoted to frontlist literary fiction and non-fiction, arguing that the more developed social media and e-book environment has created opportunities for new works to be discovered without a physical edition.

The new imprint, Blackfriars, will be the first e-book...

The European Commission has decided to refer France and Luxembourg to the EU Court of Justice over its cut-rate VAT on e-books.

A statement from the EC said failure to comply with EU law on VAT resulted in "serious distortions of competition to the detriment of traders from other EU Member States" which "goes against...