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Radio 4 broadcasts turn into audiobooks

BBC Worldwide has developed a series of audiobooks from recordings made on Radio 4. The series, the Radio 4 Book, launches on 5th June... Read more

Waterstone's terms protests

Waterstone's faced resistance from publishers this week over its demands for substantial increases in terms for centrally promoted titles. The bookselling chain is thought... Read more

17th March 2000 French publishers push for lending rights

French publishers and authors are lobbying the government to apply legislation enabling municipal libraries to impose lending rights. Publishers sent out a petition... Read more

Market reaction prompts Wolters Kluwer speculation

Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer may be forced to consider a merger after £1.5bn was wiped off its market capitalisation following the resignation of newly... Read more

Dorling Kindersley faces trouble in court

The former owners of Henderson Publishing are suing Dorling Kindersley for a consideration of £770,800, the final payment they say they are owed for... Read more

LBF sell-out sparks space shuffle

Record demand for exhibition space at the London Book Fair next week has forced its organisers to move a number of exhibitors, including Xerox,... Read more

Methven's Net reinvention

Loss-making bookshop chain Methven's plans to relaunch itself as an Internet bookseller this year, and it has raised most of the £1.5m it needs... Read more

National reading list Web move

Academic booksellers and publishers are planning to set up a national online database of university and college reading lists in a bid to boost... Read more

Ursula MacKenzie, hardcover publisher at Transworld, has been appointed publisher at Little, Brown, taking over the publishing responsibilities of chief executive Philippa Harrison, who... Read more

Worries over Waterstone's

Publishers have expressed mounting concern at the continuing impact of tighter controls imposed on Waterstone's branch-level book budgets. A number of publishers said... Read more

Irving summing up

Revisionist historian David Irving accused Penguin of being "reckless and foolhardy" in publishing Deborah Lipstadt's Denying the Holocaust without first having it checked it... Read more

World Book Day boosts trade

World Book Day generated more than £500,000 worth of extra book sales through the UK general retail market last week, pushing total sales past... Read more

BookTrack research debunks DTI data

Research by The Bookseller and Whitaker BookTrack has debunked the Department of Trade and Industry's claims that paperbacks are more expensive in the UK... Read more

Solid profits for Pearson publishers

Worldwide sales at Penguin Group jumped 8% to £565m in the year to 31st December 1999, according to preliminary results from UK-based parent company... Read more