A new report on the e-book market in 2012 shows the continuing dominance of fiction, with fiction titles taking more than double the market share digitally than in print, with non-fiction and children’s titles only slowly beginning to make headway.

The report, published by Nielsen entitled “Understanding the E-book...

Dixons' strong Christmas trading was spurred on by tablet sales, the electrical goods retailer has announced. However sales of e-readers were down at the firm.

Dixons saw total sales increase by 7% year-on-year in the 12 weeks to 5th January, excluding store openings and closures, and the UK and Ireland saw a sales rise of 8%....

Nielsen is linking up with consumer insight company Kantar Worldpanel in an association that will enable it to provide information on buying habits for e-books as well as for print purchases.

Kantar Worldpanel gathers data on book buying from a continuous panel of 15,000 participants, with information about where the book was bought,...

Publishers are readying themselves to respond to an explosion of e-reading devices in the UK in October, amid predictions that the number of devices owned in this country could rise 70% over 2011’s numbers by the end of the year.

Amazon announced on Friday (7th September) that it would sell an upgraded Kindle in the UK for...