In the mobile phone e-reader stakes, Apple has pretty much shown the competition a clean pair of heels. Buoyed by increased availability—once exclusive to O2 in the UK, you can now also get an iPhone through Orange, Vodaphone and even Tesco—and the iPhone 4 launch, sales of the handsets have surged. Despite the much-publicised...

One of the noticeable trends as we take our snapshot view of bestselling and featured e-books on various websites is the widening availability. A few months ago when we started this exercise, a number one e-book on one site—even if it was a solid frontlist title—might not be carried on any others.

That situation has changed...

Nick Barley, the new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), is doing his bit to turn the tables on Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that disrupted the London Book Fair, preventing many of Guest of Honour South Africa's writers from attending. Barley has put seven of those writers into the EIBF programme, including...

"Everything in my life led to that point."

Meike Ziervogel is talking about the moment she decided to set up Peirene Press, her publishing house which had its launch list this year. She laughs self-deprecatingly when she says it, but if you were going to start-up a contemporary European literature in translation indie, you...