How Will We Read: Molly Raphael

Despite the important role they play within society, libraries across the US and UK are being closed, having significant cuts made to...

In depth: children's mid and backlist

Bestselling books and brand authors completely dominate the children's market. That is the received wisdom and it is certainly an easy...

From million Kindle book selling US authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, to the UK successes Stephen Leather and the writing team of...

Given the intense budgetary pressures public libraries are under, last week's Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA...

With the international popularity of writers such as Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, the Icelandic publishing...

In the second of Cathy Rubin’s Q&As with the book world’s industry leaders on the future of the book,...

Giving away one million books in the teeth of the recession was either an inspired event capable of showing what pan-industry initiatives can do...

In the first instalment of C M Rubin’s series of Q&As with global industry leaders on the future of the book, she talks to...

Self-publishing has had a bad reputation. And if authors feel nervous confessing they have dabbled—or even considered pursuing this path...

For independent bookshops, to borrow a line from Charles Dickens, these are both the best of times and the worst of times. Rarely can...

After our brief Indian summer it now truly feels like autumn—the leaves are turning, the nights are drawing in and there is a Man Booker...

The Harry Potter phenomenon needs no introduction . . . and David Heyman, the producer behind the eight film adaptations of J K Rowling's...

Peter Rabbit has had to pack up his blue blazer and move warren—media rights company Chorion, which owns a range of heritage properties...