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After the disruptions of Covid, retail sales in the education sector are rebounding, with revenue through Nielsen BookScan's School Textbooks & Study Guides (ST&SG) category hitting 47.2m [pounds sterling] in [...]

Sara-Jade Virtue bowls into the Zoom telling me there should be a trigger warning, as there will be rants ahead. Music to a journalist's ears, of course, perhaps not so [...]

Helped in large part by the TikTok phenomenon, the majority of Nielsen BookScan international territories have experienced strong first halves of 2022, with six of the nine overseas markets examined [...]

A memoir from rose Tremain, a slew of upmarket psychological thrillers and arguably the highest-ever representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic authors are some of the major highlights in [...]

Before the pandemic hit, the travel books sector was in a long period of contraction and the last two years have understandably been even more difficult. Yet even with such [...]

Miles Stevens-Hoare's fifth anniversary leading audiobook publisher W F Howes will be early next year, and it is fair to say that his tenure has been the most buoyant period [...]

Quercus is marking a significant anniversary in an oh-so-pandemic era way: celebrating it a year after the fact. The indie-turned-Hachette division hit 15 in 2020 and the parties scheduled last [...]

Tom Tivnan rounds up the titles that the UK's top agencies are hoping to find deals for at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair Madeleine Milburn Title The Chalk Man Author [...]

Publishers are preparing for a 'total bun fight' for shelf space and media attention owing to a number of key spring/ summer 2020 books shifting into the autumn, though there [...]

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 [...]

WILL THE AGENCY MODEL HOLD? The swift answer is probably, given that publishers who have gone to the agency model with previously non-agency retailers (which includes three of the big [...]

Ten years ago, Lorne Forsyth committed 'an incredibly rash act'. He was a successful investment banker, yet was feeling unfulfilled because, as his responsibilities expanded, he found himself 'doing more [...]

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 [...]

If you want help to sell your book, do not rely on Twitter or other social networking sites. That was one of the major findings of Lovereadings' recent wide-ranging survey [...]

The ground beneath our feet is shifting. We commissioned our first Reading the Future survey to commemorate our 150th anniversary last spring, just as the economy was souring. It was [...]

THE MADELEINE MILBURN Agency (MMA) orchestrated a major UK deal for a ''Fargo' meets 'Broadchurch'' crime series, while handling a 'record-breaking' number of auctions for Elizabeth Macneal's The Doll Factory. [...]

BUOYED BY THE sucess of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, children's non-fiction was the 'place to be' at Bologna, with publishers eager for new voices on the back of [...]

Do you really think this is a good idea?' These are hardly the words you want to hear when launching a new business, but Ian MacDonald says that it was [...]

British indie galley Beggar Press is launching a series of courses and salons 'for writers and people who enjoy reading and thinking about writing'. Co-director Sam Jordison told The Bookseller [...]

WITH ITS LAUNCH at last year's Beijing International Book Fair faring 'beyond expectations', food and drink space Chef's Kitchen has ramped up its programme in 2017, reflecting a spike in [...]

The biggest changes to the National Curriculum in a decade and a half present a 'huge opportunity', with British education publishers poised to capitalise on increased competition, schools' ramped-up digital [...]

ONE OF THE features of the long-tail era is the resurrection of the long dormant backlist. Often this is done with a strong digital and print-on-demand component-such as the Bello [...]

There are a lot of things one could perhaps blame the last government for yet you can hardly fault the Blair/Brown regime for its support for literacy charities. World Book [...]

If you happen to be in one of the 1,000 cities, towns and villages the Olympic Torch Relay will pass through in the next month and a half, you'll probably [...]

Despite a still faltering economy, the great British nation seems determined to have some holiday fun in 2011. Thus far this year we have gone abroad more: Office of National [...]

There is irony in the fact that some of Scottish independent Black & White's success over the past few years is partially down to the multinational bete noire of many [...]

It was almost a publishing version of a football swap deal. Last year Suzie Doore, who had spent a decade at Hachette's Hodder, joined HarperCollins to become publishing director of [...]

In the mobile phone e-reader stakes, Apple has pretty much shown the competition a clean pair of heels. Buoyed by increased availability--once exclusive to O2 in the UK, you can [...]

'It was a perfect night.' Heather McNally, the reader development officer for Kent Libraries, is describing a Reading Partners-sponsored event a couple of weeks ago with Kazuo Ishiguro, and it [...]

For Transworld, it has been a long wait. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was published five years ago, and after over 81 million copies sold globally, a high-profile High [...]

Some of the biggest success stories in British publishing are US imports. Thirteen of the top 50 authors by revenue in 2008 were Americans, including mega-brands James Patterson, John Grisham, [...]

Fact: no two people in television have had a greater impact on the book trade in the past few years than Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan. Since launching in January [...]

Pop into an independent bookshop next week and you might see Jilly Cooper behind the till, Alan Titchmarsh stocking shelves or Gyles Brandreth packing returns. No, these writers are not [...]

You could be forgiven if you had not realised that two of this year's Science Fiction & Fantasy (SFF) hits were, in fact, SFF titles. Claire North's The First Fifteen [...]

To illustrate the difference between working at Pluto Press and most other publishers, m.d. Anne Beech recounts the words of Pluto's academic marketing manager Chris Browne as he was leaving [...]

Does Super Thursday matter? First identified by The Bookseller's former charts editor Philip Stone in 2008, the retailing and marketing phenomenon is the day on which more books are published [...]

The titles that did not make this month's Official E-book Sales Ranking are just as interesting as the ones that did. The ranking, for the four-week period ending 1st February, [...]

Given the cultural and marketing differences throughout the world, very rarely do book jackets which are iconic in one territory go global. Think of the various Harry Potters that have [...]

'Curated' picture books app Me Books has continued to pile up the publishing partners and has just launched in the US. Tom Tivnan meets its co-founder A couple of years [...]

A price war last week between two of China's biggest online booksellers resulted in tens of thousands of in-copyright e-books being available to download for free. From 17th-19th April, DangDang.com [...]

Let us start with an assumption-busting fact: the Folio Society has a digital director. This makes sense; the publisher of high-quality illustrated editions may not produce e-books but it sells [...]

LET US TAKE A TRIP back in time to the ancient past (well, in digital time, at least): the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair, where the German publisher ArsEdition previewed an [...]

The capital of Texas--and arguably hipster capital of the US--has what is regularly touted as the best comics shop in the country. Founded in 1977 as fantasy specialist, geek paradise [...]

The government of Sharjah, one of the emirates in the United Arab Emirates, is pledging one million Swiss Francs (680,000 [pounds sterling]) to launch a fund in conjunction with the [...]

There is definitely something in the air when you walk into the Blackwell Charing Cross Road shop. Yes, yes, it is busy and buzzy, the bright and shiny fixtures of [...]

The launch of 'The TV Book Club' on More 4 and Channel 4 this week attracted an 'incredibly upmarket' audience 'in line' with expectations according to the channel, while the [...]

'Top Gear' seems an unlikely show to feature an evangelising moment for the audiobook. But when Stephen Fry mentioned how he lost weight while walking and listening to audiobooks on [...]

The above headline was, the legend has it, what New York publisher Alfred Knopf's said one day when he was watching new books leave his warehouse. Whether apocryphal or not, [...]

In 2007, it seemed the trade was ready for a sea change. With the environmental agenda firmly in mind, two of the big four British publishers, Hachette UK and Penguin, [...]

It was also a leap of faith to write about Rosa's conversion, to imagine--as a non-believer herself--how it feels to find God. 'She's the one character who most embodies the [...]