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CUP expands in law with Lexis buy

Cambridge University Press has acquired the Law in Context series of 40 titles from LexisNexis UK, part of Reed Elsevier.The law list for final year... Read more

Kluwer's new strategy excites investors

Wolters Kluwer's share price has continued its recent upward run, reaching €14.20 (£9.67) after results were published last week.The rise, despite a decline in sales... Read more

Grant and Burton grow Infinite Ideas

Joel RickettA new company combining trade publishing and content licensing has been launched with £1m venture capital backing.The company, Infinite Ideas, is the brainchild of... Read more

Street trader Jordan goes to jail

Fiona FraserBooksellers who united against book theft ringleader Ronald Jordan celebrated this week as he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.The sentence followed January's... Read more

Politico's to move out of Westminster base

Specialist political bookshop Politico's is to close its London shop after a year-long battle against rent rises and the central London congestion charge. The business... Read more

Owl owner expands into rural Scotland

Kevin Ramage, owner of the Owl Bookshop in London, has bought a watermill in Perthshire, Scotland to convert into a 4,000 sq ft bookshop, art... Read more

Supermarkets opt out of WBD

Asda has opted not to take part in this year's World Book Day, despite the decision by the WBD executive committee that supermarkets could join... Read more

Wilson tops Cookson in libraries

Tom HolmanChildren's author Jacqueline Wilson has taken Catherine Cookson's mantle as the UK's most popular author in public libraries, according to new data from the... Read more

Profile shoots to new heights

Liz BuryProfile Books will double its turnover to £5m this year, in a classic tale of small publisher transformed by unexpected bestseller.The nation's penchant for... Read more

Something fishy in the stockroom

It's amazing what some people will do for money; some eat bugs on live television, as their peers bitch about them behind their backs (which... Read more

A softy takes a relaxing break

Sarah Mahaffy, m.d. of The Good Web Guide, writes to ask me if I might be interested in reviewing The Good Web Guide for Book... Read more

Freelances

Freelances are usually justified in complaining about the poor treatment they get from their publisher clients. Please may I gladden some hearts by telling about... Read more

Database cock-up

We have just had a telephone call from Paul Catchpole, the frustrated publisher of Locomotives International, to say that his bestselling Steam Locomotives of Mozambique... Read more

Women in Publishing

Women in Publishing will be celebrating its silver anniversary in a few weeks' time, and we wish to contact "old girls"--particularly the founding members--who have... Read more

Prices on books-- what we don't know

Confusion marks the cover prices debate.Our article about book cover prices ("What price power?",) should present a sobering read to both advocates and opponents of... Read more