There were warm words from Curtis Brown chairman Jonathan Lloyd this week in tribute to Ian Chapman Senior, the former William Collins chairman and CEO who has died at the ... Read more
With so many angry words around on both sides of the Atlantic it was good to hear some positive sentiments expressed at the International Publishers Association (IPA) first ever Middle ... Read more
It has been one of the book industry’s most extraordinary two weeks, certainly on a par with successive Harry Potter books (most particularly the final one), but also bringing to ... Read more
Figures for trade books in the US are healthy for the first six months of 2019 over the same period last year, according to figures gathered by the Association of ... Read more
Is it the Netflix effect? Fiction revenues fell 3% in 2018, according to the Publishers Association’s Publishing Year Book 2018, the lowest figure for the last five years. Are box ... Read more
What a journey it has been for James Daunt from opening a single shop, Daunt Books for Travellers, in 1991 to now, after last week’s seismic news, running 927 bookshops, ... Read more
The London Book Fair’s CAMEO awards (Creativity Across Media: Entertainment and Originality), which celebrate the central role that books play in all those adaptations for film and TV, stage, games ... Read more
It was a very good night for old companies at the British Book Awards. Penguin General (84) was named Publisher of the Year; Faber (90) was named Independent Publisher of ... Read more
Two horses on opposite sides of the world made book industry appearances in recent days. Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates celebrated the start of its tenure as UNESCO World ... Read more
It is perhaps too early to call it a ‘Bookseller Spring’, and Waterstones shop floor staff haven’t been burning cars on Piccadilly and elsewhere in the country. But the strength ... Read more
