The high level of media interest in the Harry Potter copyright case heard in New York last month was perhaps inevitable given the popularity of anything to do with the young wizard.

If you want to understand book publishing, you need to think less Bloomsbury and more Gambino: The five big companies are like the five families. Imprints are crews with plenty of ambitious upstarts looking to make their bones. And every

HarperCollins is developing an interactive, electronic sales catalog. The catalog will offer booksellers an online tool to order books and reduce Harper' paper output. Harper will preview the catalog at BEA later this month and will launch a beta version

This year, the beginning of May brought together some 150 industry professionals from Switzerland, Germany, France, the U.K. and other European countries for a symposium on the consequences of abolishing RPM. And nobody had many good things to say about