The Bookseller has begun its second annual search for its Rising Stars, a listing of the industry’s next generation of leaders and innovators.
 
The list, to be published in the 21st September issue of The Bookseller, will look at candidates from all areas of the trade including publishers,...

Women dominate the first-ever The Bookseller Rising Stars, an annual listing which highlights the people who will shape the British book trade. Two-thirds—26 of 39 entries—of Rising Stars 2011 are women.   

The list is divided into six categories: publicity, sales and marketing; design, production and...

The British book trade is going through seismic changes, the most for at least a century and a half, and arguably, since William Caxton set up his Westminster printing press in the 1470s. If the industry is to survive and thrive for centuries to come, much will depend on decisions made by the heads of houses today—more still by the...

Independent publishers make up three of the eight-strong shortlist in the latest Amazon Rising Stars campaign.

The promotion aims to highlight books from up-and-coming authors. Titles from Alma Books, Bitter Lemon Press, and Granta have made it to the shortlist, alongside Random House stablemates Ebury and Harvill Secker, as well as...