Rachel Russell and I meet at the Book Industry Conference where the talk is about bookaholics, reinvigorating backlist sales and pan-industry initiatives. The last subject is something that Russell, W H Smith's business director for books, is set to experience first hand. She becomes vice-chairman of World Book Day in 2010, taking over as...

Berlin based start-up Readmill launched its social reading iPad app in December 2011, and for c.e.o. Henrik Berggren and his team, the beauty of Readmill lies not with the books that are being read, but the discussions that are happening about them in the margins.

Readmill is an app that enables users to highlight parts of an e-book...

From stints in publishing, at Random House, and in the music industry, at EMI Recorded Music, Fionnuala Duggan has witnessed the shift to digital from many different viewpoints.

International m.d. at digital e-textbook platform CourseSmart as of May last year, her next job is to revolutionise the digital textbook and coursebook...

The Bookseller's Catherine Neilan spoke to John Fallon in June 2009:

When John Fallon joined Pearson in 1997, the company was a very different beast from the one it is now. At the time of his arrival as communications director, the publisher owned a collection of relatively unrelated companies, including Lazards...