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The pace of change is perhaps the biggest culture shift in the digital age. Not just because the technology moves on so quickly, with new,...

Business focus: hybrid bookshops

The counter-revolution against the spread of digital in publishing is often discussed, with publishers big and small celebrating books as...

There is something appropriately Bond about the offices of Ian Fleming Publications, the company which looks after his estate and protects its...

When it was announced a year and a half ago that John le Carré was defecting to Penguin, the reaction in the book trade was something...

For book distributors, new technology brings both opportunities and threats. Systems in the supply chain have never been so precise—but...

With the growing range of digital formats making publishers' workflows ever more complex, the need to stay in control of resources is...

Britain has experienced an exponential growth in book festivals in the past decade. There are, of course, the monster festivals that are...

In recent months various surveys of consumer attitudes towards e-books, e-readers and devices have been released. All of them have revealed...

In February, the International Publishers Association asked each of its executive members to answer four questions about their developing e-book...

Last Saturday saw nearly 20,000 "givers" hand out one million free books for the first ever World Book Night (WBN)—an event...

Clark's Publishing Agreements Lynette Owen on the daunting task of updating the trade's contract bible...

One of the major digital lessons that came out of the academic sector a few years ago was that splitting up content into shorter and smaller...

Digital analysts sometimes disagree sharply about the pace of change, but one area that there seems to be broad agreement in is that the mobile...