Hodder has acquired Meredith by John Kercher, the father of Meredith Kercher, the murdered English student.

Editorial director Fenella Bates bought world English rights from Ben Mason at Fox Mason. The book will be published in hardback in April 2012.

Billed as a “celebration of Meredith’s life”, the...

The quadruple threat of air traffic control strikes, economic slow-down, creaking Blackberry servers and digital disruption failed to dim spirits as the 63rd Frankfurt Book Fair continued this week.

Publishers and agents spoken to as the fair opened its doors were in positive mood. Brigid Macleod, sales and marketing director at...

Authors will benefit from increased pricing on digital content, rather than by raising royalty rates, the global c.e.o. of HarperCollins has claimed.

Brian Murray said authors were getting a better digital royalty than on print. He said: “When we looked at our print royalties, we saw they averaged about 16%-18% so we knew we...

In 2000, my old company, Borders Group, signed a deal with Amazon.com, which ceded responsibility for online fulfilment to the upstart dotcom.

As I said in my presentation at the Tools of Change conference on Tuesday: “It kind of made sense at the time.” Borders had lost tens of millions of dollars in online fulfilment,...