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Libraries: the legal battle

The defence of the public library service entered a new phase this week with the judicial review hearing in the High Court into Brent council...

Genre focus: teenage kicks

If sex sells, then the possibility of sex with a hot, mysterious teenage boy sells even more. In the past five years the young adult fiction...

Jennifer E Smith

Unleashing her inner 16-year-old, author Jennifer E Smith has published two young adult books in her native US, The Comeback Season and...

Bookspeed: full speed ahead

When you've got the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as your unpaid publicists, it does your business no harm. Kingsley Dawson, co-founder and...

The Waterstone's plan

In 1797 John Hatchard tried a bold experiment by opening a bookshop in the fast growing area of Piccadilly, when the traditional industry was...

Break with tradition

If you were flipping through the TV channels on the 19th of April and stopped on channel number 16 on your Freeview box, you might have seen a...

Half-year review 2011: an overview

A royal wedding, an Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden; it has been a momentous first six months of 2011 across the world stage. No...

Half-year review 2011: publisher performance

Let us start on a good note. Penguin, as noted on the previous pages, has built on its muscular 2010 performance with a scintillating 2011. Its...

Half-year review 2011: writers/genres

The bestselling author of 2010 continues to be number one in 2011. Pukka TV chef Jamie Oliver's sales so far this year stand at £6.8m...

Website mistakes: the 10 to avoid

The web is a primary marketing channel for almost every industry on the planet, and publishing is no exception. One of the first things anyone...

The future of copyright

Traditional copyright is dead, in terminal decline or, at the very least, not fit for purpose in the digital age. That was the message at last...

The next generation

The British book trade is going through seismic changes, the most for at least a century and a half, and arguably, since William Caxton set up...

Future library

It is not often I agree with Prince Charles' arch-conservative views on architecture, but he may have been onto something when he said the...


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