Hachette Livre has today (4th May) reduced the retail prices of e-books to the level of the paperback equivalents of about 2,000 literary titles published in hardback. 

Until now, the prices of all the group's e-books have been 20% to 25% lower than for the hardback equivalents. 

The decision is a new stage in...

Publishers are continuing to experiment with e-book pricing, as sales and marketing teams balance pressure from low-priced, self-published content with concern over consumers' perception of e-book value. Independent publishers have been trialling a 99p e-book price on selected titles, with larger publishers also reporting a more flexible...

Penguin has defended the £30 r.r.p. price of Jamie Oliver's new cookbook as "fantastic value" after retailers accused the company of "profiteering".

Many booksellers have noted the price of potential bestselling hardback books out in September and October in time for the Christmas rush "creeping up...

Last month I spoke at The Bookseller's FutureBook conference on a familiar topic: the lessons that publishing can learn from the music industry. Most of these are now well known, so we tried to focus on the less obvious points. It struck me that one important difference between record labels and publishers is that (apart from one brief period...