The National Year of Reading has provided a wonderful opportunity for children's books and reading. The focus on children's reading has attracted several millions of pounds in government funding for free books for children and much behind-the-scenes activity in support of reading. However, despite the high level of interest in children's...

It's official—publishers and their authors are taking over the world of online social networking. A search of "books" on YouTube finds more than 156,000 videos, ranging from author talking heads to publishers' animated promotional films.

This month, an author tracked down a number of Bookseller employees and sent them...

Can you really judge a book by its cover? One school of thought says that if you are scouring the shelves of a bookshop in America, you can. For in the US—particularly for heavy-weight literary titles—publishers often create exquisite book jacket covers in terms of ideas, aesthetics and production.

But in the UK, things are...

When talking of "the Richard & Judy effect" on book sales, one must be very careful to include the 
caveats. Admittedly, running the sales of the 82 books to date that have been included in the 10 "Richard & Judy" (R&J hereafter) clubs to date through Nielsen BookScan's online database generates some...