The internet has replaced cultural product and other chains as the biggest driver of change engulfing independent booksellers, according to a French study on the book trades in six western countries.

The results of the survey of France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US, entitled Booksellers Worldwide (...

Down the line from Melbourne, Henry Rosenbloom begins our chat with an overview of the state of the nation in that cheery pessimism Aussies often use when talking about their country in anything other than sport: the market is in a tailspin, the Labour government is self-immolating and the Bank of Australia is so worried about the economy it...

This month's Book Industry Study Group Making Information Pay conference was first and foremost the curtain-raiser on the third edition of BookStats, a joint project between the Association of American Publishers and BISG which provides an overview of the size and shape of the US publishing industry and combines both physical and digital...

Scale. That is the buzzword du jour, or, rather de l’année—at least since the Penguin/Random House merger was announced last October. One of the underlying strategies of the Penguin/RH link-up—emphasised by their respective bosses, John Makinson and Markus Dohle, in emails to staff after the announcement—was...