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Fair game

For as long as most publishers, booksellers and agents can remember, book fairs have been essential dates in the diary. As places to negotiate and...

Reading the Future: 2

The two overriding themes of the last year are unquestionably the economy and digitisation. The recession, coming at a time of increasing unease...

Reading the Future

The ground beneath our feet is shifting. We commissioned our first Reading the Future survey to commemorate our 150th anniversary last spring,...

Art of the matter

"We are going through if not the biggest upheaval since Gutenburg, at least the biggest upheaval since the invention of the modern book trade...

Making Hay

In early May there was quite a whirlwind of controversy at the Hay Festival when Martin Amis praised the Basque separatist group ETA for...

Pluck of the Irish

Last week's Irish Book Awards in Dublin were certainly a glittering advertisement for Irish writing and authors. The cream of the Irish literati...

Classic defence

Around this time last year, the UK's first e-reader, the iRex iLiad, launched at Borders. Pre-loaded on the £399 device were 50 "free...

Can business angels help?

In the midst of the grimmest recession that most of us will have lived through, with belt tightening the order of the day, expansion might be the...

Death of the salesmen

At a time when few jobs in trade publishing are secure, the role of the rep seems particularly exposed. Over the past 10 years or so, just about...

Eastern promise

Although India was tabbed to be the London Book Fair's Market Focus 2009 a few years ago, the timing could not have proved better. Britain has...

Digital focus

Down from the ivory tower: has self-publishing come of age? By Felicity Wood With the rise of print-on-demand technology it seems the...

Crossing the pond

Some of the biggest success stories in British publishing are US imports. Thirteen of the top 50 authors by revenue in 2008 were Americans,...

What price store design?

When times are tough, is there any point investing in store design? There is an argument that 
bookshops in particular are 
...


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