Indies dominate 2020 International Booker Prize shortlist

Four indie publishers—Fitzcarraldo, Charco Press, Europa and Faber & Faber—have made the six-strong shortlist for 2020's £50,000 International Booker Prize... Read more

Gardners to reinstate home delivery service

Gardners has announced it has reinstated its home delivery service, after temporarily closing last week due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The move will allow bookshops to service remote customer orders... Read more

Pan Mac announces pay reductions and staff furloughed

Higher paid staff at Pan Macmillan have been asked to volunteer for a pay reduction and employees at its distribution arm will be furloughed as the publisher unveiled measures to help “safeguard” its... Read more

Bookselling in lockdown: education titles surge as UK shops are shuttered

Exclusive data from Blackwell’s, Waterstones and Bookstat reveal that, with most UK readers housebound, educational titles, escapist fiction and soothing self-help is much in demand Read more
Pushkin Children's buys two from Susie Bower

Pushkin Children's has acquired two new titles from Susie Bower. Read more
CILIP launches the National Shelf Service to recommend books to children

CILIP, the UK's library and information association, has announced the launch of the National Shelf Service, a new daily Youtube broadcast featuring book recommendations from professional... Read more
Photographer and author Stuart Goodman dies of coronavirus

The photographer and author Stuart Goodman has died of coronavirus aged 73, it has been confirmed. Read more
Springer Nature makes 500 textbooks available for free to support higher education

Springer Nature is making a range of "key" textbooks freely accessible for educators, students and academics affected by coronavirus lockdown to help support higher education institutions around the... Read more
Digital Bestseller Lists: May makes hay with the bay

Dean Koontz's The Eyes of Darkness was leapfrogged by Nicola May’s The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay for the Bookstat e-book number one.... Read more

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Opinion

Beyond the tent

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

A couple of weeks ago, John Howkins wrote a piece for us on the value of invisible work. Ever since, as news of one cancelled... Read more
Bring it on

Philip Jones at The Bookseller
Changing of the guard?

Tom Tivnan at The Bookseller
To publish (or not)

Richard Charkin Founder at Mensch Publishing
The solace of stories

Caroline Jones Co-Director at The Story Museum