News: retail

The Bookseller and WBD launch bookshop competition

The Bookseller is teaming up with World Book Day to launch a competition for bookshops. Read more

Rebuck calls for publishers to give evidence to business rates inquiry

Baroness Gail Rebuck, the chair of Penguin Random House UK, is urging publishers as well as booksellers to submit evidence to the Treasury Committee’s business... Read more

Adeyemi and Anderson make Waterstones Children’s Prize shortlist

Authors and illustrators including Tomi Adeyemi, Sophie Anderson, Jessica Love and Onjali Q. Raúf are on the shortlist for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize,... Read more

PRH marks five years of Murder Most Unladylike with hardback edition

Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike with a signed hardback edition of the first book.... Read more

Canadian music mogul Putman in rescue bid talks for HMV

The owner of Canadian music business Sunrise Records, Doug Putman, is in rescue bid talks for HMV. Read more

Daunt plans new buying structure after flat year at Waterstones

Waterstones is to split its centralised buying functions into two roles, aimed at resolving the disconnect between what is ordered by the chain and what... Read more

Topping to open 4,000 sq ft branch in Edinburgh

Independent bookseller Topping & Company will open a new bookshop in central Edinburgh in 2019, with the Topping family saying the shop will be “the... Read more

W H Smith opens two new stores in Philippines airport

W H Smith has opened two new stores at Mactan-Cebu International Airport in the Philippines. Read more

Shrigley creates 'light-hearted' BAMB tote design for Wellcome

Visual artist David Shrigley has designed a limited edition tote, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Wellcome Book Prize, in support of the Books... Read more

Indies condemn business rates system following Amazon disclosure

Independent booksellers have expressed frustration that they are proportionately being taxed as much as six times what Amazon pays in business rates relative to its... Read more

Glastonbury's Gothic Image shuts up shop after 40 years

The UK’s “first alternative” bookshop, Gothic Image, is shutting its doors this month after 40 years. Read more

HMV future to be decided this week

Companies hoping to buy HMV have until Tuesday to submit their bids, with the future of the music retailer to be decided after going into... Read more

HarperNonFiction scoops Cavendish's ageing society debut

HarperCollins will publish the debut book of broadcaster and Financial Times contributing editor Camilla Cavendish, Extra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing Society, in May.... Read more