Judging by the energy on The London Book Fair stand at its party in Frankfurt to whet people’s appetites for Indonesia Market Focus 2019, next year’s celebration should be a ... Read more
Liverpool expands into Ireland, joins the conversation Liverpool University Press continues to expand, announcing five appointments and a new Ireland office. The latter will be run by Christabel Scaife, the ... Read more
A bestseller was born – President Trump’s telephone conversation with Bob Woodward was a cheery affair that was widely broadcast. Not sure if it was the President’s intention to give ... Read more
Well, no one saw that coming. The trade is still reeling from Waterstones acquisition of Foyles, which has been arguably the industry’s best kept secret since Bertelsmann’s swoop on Random ... Read more
SAGE buys Talis As part of its expansion into the research and learning software sectors, SAGE has acquired the technology company Talis and its enterprise teaching and learning platform Talis ... Read more
Demand is currently exceeding supply in the children’s market in China, according to Liying Lin, director of the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) which wrapped up last Saturday (25 August). ... Read more
There were healthy quarterly results for HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, with revenue in the fourth quarter at HC up 20%, and sales at S&S up by $1m in the ... Read more
New open access press for Ireland Ireland has gained its first open access university press with the launch last month of Dublin City University Press, a joint initiative between the ... Read more
The boardroom ructions at Bonnier which have seen a number of individuals leave that particular publishing island with their metaphorical wheelie bags in tow – just like that programme that ... Read more
As parks and gardens turned brown across the UK and Waterstones stores cleverly displayed Penelope Lively’s novel Heat Wave, so the mercury on the Nielsen print sales thermometer (this analogy ... Read more