Waterstone's branches have begun implementing a promotional strategy based on "local insight and curiosity" rather than central dictates in the wake of the ending of the chain's decade-long three-for-two offer last week.

Last Thursday (6th October) booksellers in Waterstone's up and down the country began...

A "gentleman's agreement" is allowing trade to continue over the crucial pre-Christmas period between Waterstone's and publishers with which it has not yet agreed terms.

A number of publishers have yet to complete negotiations with the high street chain, with a range of discount issues being debated. However, as the...

The launch of World Book Night 2012 has been delayed, moving from Frankfurt Book Fair next week to Waterstone's Piccadilly on 24th October.

The announcement of the 25 titles chosen by WBN's editorial selection committee to be given away on World Book Night 2012 was due to take place at a press conference on 12th October at...

When James Daunt became managing director of Waterstone's the last thing I expected to read, just a few weeks later, was that he was beginning "to move from local to central buying". Could the founder of the chattering classes' most loved bookshops really be adopting a system which a few years earlier prompted one of the...