In depth: BEA 2013

What change a year can bring. At last year’s Book Expo America in New York, people put on a happy face, but Penguin and Macmillan were...

In depth: bookselling worldwide

The internet has replaced cultural product and other chains as the biggest driver of change engulfing independent booksellers, according to a...

What a difference a few months make. In January the German book industry was consumed by a collective feeling of gloom after book sales had...

The publishing industry in the UK (and elsewhere) is subject to significant structural change, brought about by the emergence of both online...

This month's Book Industry Study Group Making Information Pay conference was first and foremost the curtain-raiser on the third edition of...

If last year’s erotica boom has taught the publishing industry anything it is that the old cliché is true—sex really does...

Scale. That is the buzzword du jour, or, rather de l’année—at least since the Penguin/Random House merger was announced last...

This year’s instalment of The Bookseller Industry Awards will be the biggest to date, with 19 prizes given out on the night, plus the...

After last year’s E L James-led erotica boom, the market has understandably contracted. But with a raft of titles coming out in 2013, is...

Amid the gloomy statistics concerning shop closures revealed by the Booksellers Association in its annual membership figures in February, some...

Digital rights management is the elephant in the boardroom for all publishers; some in the industry argue that a strict DRM policy—which...

The seventh of August 2012 may just turn out to be a date that will live in literary history. Folio Society m.d. Toby Hartwell...

One of the features of the long-tail era is the resurrection of the long dormant backlist. Often this is done with a strong digital and...