Retail Awards shortlists: part two

The Bookseller Retail Awards are back for their fourth year, bigger and better than ever before. In the second of two previews, Tom Tivnan checks...

Retail Awards shortlists 2008: part one

Now in its fourth year, September's Bookseller Retail Awards have become an unmissable fixture in the book trade's calendar. In the first of two...

The first industry-wide audiobooks promotion is currently under way. The Bookseller talks to a group of audiobook movers and shakers to find...

Last year a Diversity in Publishing Network survey revealed that fewer than 4% of people working in editorial and senior roles within publishing...

When Doris Lessing accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature in December, she spoke movingly about the work she had done with an organisation taking...

Pop into an independent bookshop next week and you might see Jilly Cooper behind the till, Alan Titchmarsh stocking shelves or Gyles Brandreth...

The name’s Bond. Bentley Bond. Or, to be precise, the Bentley Bond Special Series edition of Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks’...

It used to be difficult to find the books in most Woolworths shops—they seemed to be hidden somewhere among the pick-’n’-mix,...

Perhaps you were one of the keen early adopters who rushed out to Borders earlier this month to plunk down £399 on iRex's iLiad, the first...

You live by the sword, you die by the sword. In The Friday Project’s (TFP) case, the sword was the internet—the brave new world...

The much-maligned supermarket giant now stocks books in 731 stores, and aims to double sales to £200m within three years. Planned new...

Jeff Bezos seems pretty good at predicting the future. Way back in 1997, the Amazon founder told The Bookseller how online book retailing would...

Just four years ago, few in the book trade would have taken much notice of Play.com. The online retailer, founded in 1998, focused on selling CDs...