The high street bookshops I represent are cultural and community beacons on the high street. They are full of enterprising and passionate booksellers, who run local events, innovate and—what’s more—are a key to the “discovery” of books for many book buyers.

However, there is no doubt they are facing...

Bookseller Association chief executive Tim Godfray has cast doubt on newly published research which indicates that the number of bookshops in the UK has halved in seven years, saying instead that BA figures suggest the rate of decline has been slowing.

According to a study by Experian for...

Tim Godfray, chief executive of the Booksellers Association, has backed the stance taken by House of Commons Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge, who earlier this week accused Amazon of putting UK booksellers out of business by using tax...

The government is expected to announce a review of library e-lending tomorrow (Wednesday 26th September), with William Sieghart, founder of Forward Publishing and the Forward Prize for Poetry, leading the initiative, and Faber chief executive Stephen Page, PFD chief Caroline Michel and author Joanna Trollope all included on the panel of...