Hopes that the US will follow where the UK leads in terms of Open Access for publicly funded scholarship may be wide of the mark, conference delegates heard last week.

Speaking at an Academy of Social Sciences conference on the implementation of the Finch Report (29th-30th November), Dr Felice Levine, executive...

Kobo is due to launch a country-wide roadshow to showcase its e-book offering to independent booksellers, though with booksellers still waiting to hear what terms the company will give them on unit sales.

Kobo country manager Phil Wood is embarking on a nationwide tour to present Kobo’s e-book model to facilitate independent...

US publishers sales of e-books and print books picked up the pace in 2011, a year when UK publishers' export sales decreased, after the US companies "reached deeper into the international consumer base", and took advantage of the spread globally of digital reading.

The growth was led by e-books, with sales of digital...

The UK has 16 titles making the Gourmand cookery book award shortlists this year, down on 21 in 2010, with Latin America topping the worldwide leader board with the region producing 35 shortlisted titles.

Among the shortlisted titles from the UK are Meat Free Monday Cookbook by Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney (Kyle Books),...