Barnes & Noble is strengthening its relations with UK publishers and app developers in the run-up to this month's London Book Fair, The Bookseller has learned.

The US book giant has had face-to-face meetings with a number of publishers ahead of the fair and has scheduled further half-hour sessions at the show (April...

Giant US bookseller Barnes & Noble has reported a marginal decrease in sales in its second quarter with strong growth at BN.com and across its Nook range of digital readers failing to offset the continuing decline in physical book sales. Profits rose slightly despite the increasing costs of growing its Nook business.

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Thriller writer Barry Eisler, who turned his back on a two-book deal for half a million dollars from St Martin’s Press, has decided to accept six figures from Amazon and become one of its first frontlist authors.

Eisler made the announcement at Publishers Launch's Book Expo America conference. The Eisler development is...

Barnes & Noble has had its best Christmas trading in its bookshops in more than a decade.

For the nine weeks to 1st January, store sales were up 8.2% to $1.1bn. Like for like sales at the bookstore were up 9.7%, its best bricks and mortar performance for more than 10 years. Total website sales were up 67% year on...