Richard & Judy's book club will be replaced with "something new, different and drastic for books on TV" according to Amanda Ross, m.d. of Cactus Books. Ross was speaking exclusively to The Bookseller after Richard & Judy's talk show on UKTV channel Watch was axed last Friday (8th May). The show, produced by...

The demise of the single most important piece of furniture in the history of British publishing, Richard & Judy's sofa, may come as no particular surprise, but still many will mourn its passing.

Before R&J, book shows had been a chattering classes ghetto, earnest chin-stroking discussions among the literati that played well in...

Hachette Book Group USA, Simon & Schuster and McGraw-Hill are among the publishers to have signed up for Blackwell's print-on-demand Espresso Book Machine, making 89,000 in-copyright titles available from next week. The Espresso, which launched at Blackwell's flagship Charing Cross Road branch in central London at the end of April,...

Penguin is considering restructuring Dorling Kindersley—its illustrated reference division—after sounding out rival publishers about a possible sale of the operation.

The Bookseller understands that informal approaches made to other publishers late last year to gauge interest in a sale of the operation did not result...