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Persephone Books is both a publisher and a bookshop, an increasingly popular and valuable niche on the indie scene. Run by Nicola Beauman, who founded the company in 1988, it [...]

Retailers say they are set for 'pleasing' paperback sales this summer, with a strong appetite for reading thanks to BookTok and the resurgence of romance and cosy crime, but there [...]

'The beauty of brevity is something that cannot be understated,' says Amanda Boachie, founder of new micropress Forty-Four Words, which aims to create personalised, hand-made books that share meaningful messages [...]

This year is a busy one for writer and now-publisher Rebecca F John, with three of her own books being released as well as the first titles from her newly [...]

The word 'luck' comes up several times during my conversation with Peter Blackstock, vice-president and deputy publisher at Grove Atlantic in the US and now also publisher for the company's [...]

As the Frankfurt Book Fair draws nearer and a frenzy of pre-Christmas activity kindles the publishing and bookselling world, The Bookseller invited a selection of UK indie publishers to recommend [...]

In the summer of 1963, Walter Bgoya, then 20 years old, set off from Kansas for Chicago. Midway, in Carrollton, Missouri, the 0.85 litre Renault Dauphin broke down, and so [...]

Sheffield-based independent And Other Stories is celebrating its 10th anniversary this autumn with a redesign as well as physical and digital events. Founder and publisher Stefan Tobler says that the [...]

Educational publishers have welcomed the UK government's announcement that it will not develop a full programme arounds its Letters and Sounds handbook, which comes after lobbying from the sector. Letters [...]

'We were at the start of something that London just caught up with,' Mick Felton, the publisher of Seren Books, tells me. He, along with deputy publisher Sarah Johnson, is [...]

Just 10 years on from the children's indie's inception, the list has stonking TCM sales and a flurry of awards to its name. Its three co-founders reveal the key to [...]

They straddle the line between author and publisher; PR and production; and marketers and booksellers. Tom Tivnan and Felicity Wood meet the people behind some of the industry's new hybrid [...]

The shock of The London Book Fair 2019 was not a big name author shifting houses, but Lee Brackstone leaving Faber to set up his own Orion imprint. This was [...]

A little over a year ago, Prelude Books publisher Pete Duncan and Abbie Headon, who heads the firm's humorous fiction imprint Farrago, came to The Booksellefs office to chat about [...]

In an interview with Australian journal Scan back in 2004, publisher Pete Ayrton said that he would be worried if Serpent's Tail--the press he founded in 1986 to publish fiction [...]

Many publishing insiders have praised the use of 'sensitivity readers' in children's and YA books, however two authors who used them or similar services in recent months were still criticised [...]

It is fitting to meet the Westchester Publishing Services braintrust at its busy stand at this year's London Book Fair to discuss expanding into the British market, as it was [...]

Difficult. A rough ride. Harder than ever. Prepared for the worst. Cautiously optimistic. Those are the buzz words and phrases bandied about by credit-crunched and recession-hit publishers as they look [...]

Replacing Richard & Judy In the past few years, the media's biggest influence on the book trade boiled down to two names: Richard & Judy. The duo's Book Club phenomenon [...]

One of the most talked-about Irish literary novels of recent years was born far outside the usual publishing channels--at a meeting to improve conditions in direct provision hostels, attended by [...]

Two weeks into lockdown, Merrion Press, the eight-year-old trade arm of the long-standing Irish Academic Press, released Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect your Mental Health. Most [...]

Ten years ago, I met Christopher MacLehose at Kokeb, an Ethiopian restaurant off Caledonian Road, to talk about his new, Quercus-backed, eponymous imprint. He had recently emerged from an unhappy [...]

BY THE BOOKSELLER NEWS TEAM Publishers are becoming increasingly concerned about Amazon's policing of territorial rights, with fears heightened by last year's launch of the Global Store, which enables customers [...]

'There are so many good books that fall through the gaps,' said Bella Pearson, who earlier this year left David Fickling Books to strike out with her own business. 'There [...]

She is best known for her iconic role as Carrie Bradshaw in 'Sex and the City' and currently stars in and produces the US hit 'Divorce', but Sarah Jessica Parker [...]

CARDIGAN-BASED INDIE PARTHIAN, which was set up to publish works which accurately represented life in Wales and nurture emerging talent, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The press was [...]

Will its move into consumer titles threaten publishers? Tesco's clout in the UK retail economy has been well documented Statistics have indicated that as much as pounds 1 in every [...]

Ann-Janine Murtagh, executive publisher of HarperCollins Children's Books, is expecting her 'biggest ever Christmas' thanks to a partnership with Sainsbury's, which has resulted in Judith Kerr's picture book feline Mog [...]

With pre-Frankfurt submissions just warming up after a 'dead' August, the habitual tussle between agents and publishers over global rights is resurfacing with a new intensity. Agents say some publishers [...]

Polly Powell has her husband to thank for this. In 2013, when the illustrated publisher Anova was put on the block by its directors--Robin Wood, David Proffit and Powell herself--the [...]

Is an over-reliance on the figures failing publishers, Alasdair Reid asks. It's just as well, really, that Martin Clarke, the publisher of Mail Online, speaks from a position of strength [...]

Publishers have signed a letter urging the Man Booker Prize organisers to reverse their decision to allow US authors to enter, citing concerns it is creating a 'homogenised literary future'. [...]

Children's publishers are feeling 'quietly optimistic' going into next week's London Book Fair (14th-16th March), with interest in acquiring across middle-grade, Young Adult and 'crossover' titles. Rebecca Hill, editorial director [...]

Many of us have had the good fortune to be born into the safest, most cosseted, wealthiest generation that has ever lived. There have been wars, but they have been [...]

Will more and more authors take advantage of new technology to short circuit the supply chain and go directly to their readers? Danuta Kean explores the pros and cons of [...]

ANDREW FRANKLIN PROFILE BOOKS, M.D. 'Publishing is dismally un-diverse, dominated by people from a similar background. That must affect the way we, as an industry, make decisions: the books we [...]

The Bookseller News Team W H Smith has defended its record on book marketing promotions, after being accused by Biteback Publishing's Iain Dale of being 'very willing to take publishers' [...]

The Fifty Shades story in the UK began with a telephone call from Cornerstone m.d. Susan Sandon to Selina Walker, Century and Arrow publisher, at 10 p.m. on the day [...]

The children's book industry will continue to see demand for beautiful print books and diverse stories in 2016, and the market for Young Adult titles by UK authors will go [...]

The trade association Of all the constituents of the Scottish books business earmarked by the Literature Working Group's (LWG) report for change, Publishing Scotland (PS) is most conspicuously in the [...]

At Transworld, publisher Bill Scott-Kerr is wondering how to react to a letter from the Rail Enthusiasts' Club of Great Britain. It reads: 'Sir, while we admire the skill in [...]

Text Publishing's stand at this year's London Book Fair is, to put it kindly, on the periphery in a slightly darkened corner of the mezzanine level above the sprawl of [...]

While the rest of the publishing world prophesises credit crunch doom and newspapers hatter on about e-books and iPods, there is one sector that is quietly returning to form away [...]

If ever the trade had the chance to 'sex up' the audiobook market it is now. An industry-wide promotion, run by the Audiobook Publishers Association (APA) and the Book Marketing [...]

Gail Pirkis left is the founder of Slightly Foxed, a quarterly dedicated to books that publishing hype might overshadow. On Radio 4's 'Today' last week, she discussed why these Books [...]

William Sieghart has said the library service operates 'dysfunctionally', and that he is 'frightened and worried' for its future. Speaking at a Westminster Media Forum event on publishing and libraries [...]

Former HarperCollins publisher and novelist Hannah MacDonald has set up a new publishing venture, September Publishing. The small non-fiction list, which will launch e-books and print titles in March 2015, [...]