Eight of the top 10 publishers saw double-digit drops in printed book sales year-on-year in the 12 weeks to 24th March, according to the latest Nielsen BookScan figures, which do not include e-book sales.

Sales of physical books for the 13 weeks to 31st March are running at a nine-year low, at £313.6m.

Among the leading...

Publishers need to emerge from the shadow of Nielsen BookScan and use their own judgement while improving non-fiction books in order to beat the digital onslaught, delegates at the Independent Publishers Guild's 50th conference heard last week.

Publishers need to become "pricing experts" and think more dynamically when...

E-book production overtook hardback output in 2011 for the first time, as the number of new titles published in the UK continued to flatline, according to book production figures published by Nielsen BookScan.

Publishers produced 149,800 new books and new editions in 2011, down from the 2009 high point of 157,039 and down from last...

UK retail sales returned to negative like-for-like growth last month, in what was described as "the second worst January" since retail records began in 1995.

Figures from the British Retail Consortium this morning (7th February) show like-for-like sales were down 0.3% in January in comparison to the same month last year, as...