Richard Mollet has barely had time to settle in to his new office when we meet. It's the end of his first week as the Publishers Association's chief executive, and he has already braved the Frankfurt Book Fair, defended the organisation's new policy on e-book lending in libraries, and agreed to speak at The Bookseller's...

The death of printed books has been forecast almost since e-books were invented. It has not happened and indeed seems a long way off. But what digital has spawned in recent years is a sort of counter-reformation; publishers who celebrate and experiment with physical books. One new start up doing just that is London-based Visual Editions,...

This week marks the completion of the best part of a year's work for David Brawn, HarperCollins' publishing director for estates. Falling smack in the middle of Agatha Christie Week, HarperCollins announced on Wednesday (15th) that it had secured worldwide rights to Christie's entire back catalogue across print, digital and audio....

Custard, crackers, baked beans and chocolate oranges are a world away from billionaire sheikhs, mail-order mistresses and chivalrous rakes.

But that is the journey Mandy Ferguson made 12 months ago when, after 26 years working for food companies such as Ambrosia and Heinz she moved into her role as m.d. of Harlequin Mills & Boon....