Like most prizes, the Samuel Johnson allows publishers to submit a set number of books per imprint - in this case three - which brought in 131 titles. But then comes the dangerous business of call-ins. As the prize year

Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights from Scholastic Media to adapt R.L. Stine's best-selling "Goosebumps" book series for the big screen, the studio said on Thursday.

Looking to trim expenses, Borders has eliminated eight positions at the vice president and director level, a company spokesperson confirmed. Although no further details were released, the cuts are believed to have come in various departments, including buying, merchandising and

the development network and trade organisation for the sector, has been allocated by the Scottish Arts Council in place of grants to publishers and, consequently, to writers. This is an entirely wrong implication. The budgetary decisions relate to different financial

Give the customers what they want" was the message at Digital Book 2008, the annual conference sponsored by the International Digital Publishing Forum, held yesterday at the McGraw-Hill auditorium in Manhattan. On panels about e-book standards, new innovations, international digital

Borders, the troubled US retailer, has appointed bankers to conduct a strategic review of Paperchase, a process that is expected to result in the sale of the stationery chain.

The world of customer loyalty and rewards is ever changing and presents opportunities not just to sell vouchers but reward sales and build community rewards across a wide range of retail offers.

Book clubs are in for a radical overhaul at the very least-and some people think they are headed for extinction

As you probably know, the key to kicking ass on Amazon is reviews. My book has only recently been added to their list, so I have no reviews. I need them, and I'm willing to pay to get them. I

An authorised but markedly unsanitised biography of VS Naipaul is contending with a history of 20th-century music and an insight into the minds of crows for the world's richest non-fiction book prize.

Publishers are reacting angrily to what one senior executive described as a 'crude' attempt by Amazon to increase its discount. 'It is going from publisher to publisher with extortionate demands, and if it does manage to get a figure from

Controversial scientist, J. Craig Venter, is one of three newcomers shortlisted for this year's Royal Society Prizes for Science Books.

WH Smith fell 8p to 417p after revealing that Kate Swann, its chief executive, had sold £1million shares, nearly half her holding, at 435.9p each.

UK publishing group Informa is understood to have become a target for private equity, though no formal approaches have been made at this stage.

HarperCollins, one of the premier publishers in the world, is ready to take on the Hindi literary world through its imprint HarperHindi. The imprint is to be launched at Willow Chinar, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road on 15th May.

Record labels are losing their battle with digital piracy as the number of people who regularly download songs legally falls back, research will claim today.

It's not often a banker is called the voice of his generation.

Former Random House executive v-p and chief operating officer for North America Don Weisberg will join Penguin Group USA May 19 as president of the Penguin Young Readers Group, replacing Doug Whiteman, who has been promoted to the newly created

Here's an interesting trend in book jacket design-making it look like somebody has doodled all over the cover, as if it were a high school notebook, or a bored office worker's legal pad.