Four buyers have expressed an interest in taking over the e-commerce side of Retail8, which includes the BookRabbit and Samedaybooks websites. The revelation follows a review by parent company ArgentVive, which found that the business required "working capital properly to fund its marketing and development activities". Earlier this...

BookRabbit.com, the new online bookshop and networking site, has signed a deal with ICUE to be the sole purchasing partner for the mobile services provider's "first chapter previews".

The previews service can send chapter samplers to the mobile phones of customers interacting with book advertising posters. Publishers can...

The purchase by Amazon of Audible should pose quite a serious question for both publishers and booksellers who want to sell audio books as digital downloads. As an industry we ought to feel very uncomfortable that one retailer will have virtual monopoly.

But the industry, in the most part, would rather ignore the whole problem and just...

Samedaybooks, which owns the chain of bookshops known as Methvens, has sold two of its stores as it shifts its focus away from high street retailing to e-commerce.

The Petworth and Cobham stores were sold to their management this week. Managing director Kieron Smith, who joined from Waterstone's in September, said Sameday intends to...