After a dramatic scene in “Godzilla”, Jean Reno breaks the silence by saying: “I could do with a coffee.” This is how many of us in the “bookland” must feel after 2012. Korky the Cat and Maeve Binchy consigned to the ether? Flogging flogging? E-books approaching 40%? Even I have got rid of my encyclopaedia...

Mark Forsyth’s follow-up to last Christmas’ runaway hit The Etymologicon (Icon) has been picked as the top title for booksellers to champion this December.

Publishers pitched alternative Christmas hits to booksellers at the Bookseller Association’s annual conference at Warwick University in September. The...

Twenty-two independent bookshops have signed up to stock Kobo’s e-reader range, with delivery of the devices expected as the festive shopping season begins.  

Kobo pitched its devices and affiliates scheme at the Booksellers Association’s a.g.m. in July. Chipping Norton’s Jaffe & Neale Books...

Every time I read about the launch of a new generalist trade publishing imprint, in which an editor can seemingly publish whatever takes his or her fancy, I worry for those involved.

This approach implies a business model in which a retailer will devote space to each carefully crafted work. But physical retail space is in decline,...