Bookselling is a Scylla and Charybdis setup, where retailers try to steer a path between the "false negative" of being out of stock when customers come calling and the "false positive" of having lots of books nobody's looking for.
Foyles flagship store on Charing Cross Road could more than double in size if a property deal currently being negotiated by the Foyle family's property company, Noved Investment, is successful.
Next week sees the first 'public' appearance of the most powerful newcomer into the book trade for some time, the Chairman of Borders, Luke Johnson. The entrepreneur, who bought the UK arm of the bookselling company last September, will be
With growing speculation in the US that Random House Chief Executive Peter Olson is likely to leave the company in the next few weeks, attention in the UK trade is switching to the possibility of Gail Rebuck stepping into his
Belgian author Paul Verhaeghen tonight secured a double honour from the Independent foreign fiction prize for his novel Omega Minor. The £10,000 purse has hitherto been divided between author and English translator for "an exceptional work" of foreign language fiction
Publishing Scotland has hit back against criticism made about the body this week, following the award of a £260,000 per annum grant from the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) for 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Question: When is the downloading of a newly published book not an act of piracy? Answer: when it's leaked by the publisher as part of a buzz marketing exercise. Random House's US imprint, Crown, released horror writer Scott Sigler's new
Textbook and newspaper publisher Pearson is poised to buy a chain of private schools in Shanghai to tap into the growing demand for English language teaching from increasingly affluent Chinese families.
Total sales at HarperCollins rose 3.8% in the third quarter ended March 31, to $302 million, while operating income held even at $29 million. HC CEO Jane Friedman said that after a few difficult quarters due to tough comparisons, the
Martin Amis's darkly comic novel London Fields is being made into a film. Amis himself is collaborating on the adaptation of his controversial 1989 novel, and may even take a small part in the resulting film, which will be directed
Two years after telling the world he was finished with writing, Gabriel Garcia Márquez has rediscovered his muse. The Nobel prizewinner is giving the final touches to "a novel of love", according to a friend.
