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

Some interesting comments from Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle on wanting to grown both its physical and digital businesses.  He noted: “Today we are selling our books through 120,000 ... Read more

It has been a good month for independent presses.  Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, published by Dublin’s Tramp Press, won the €100,000 Dublin International Literary Award; Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole, ... Read more

In marked contrast to comments made by the then Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson at Futurebook at the end of 2016, his fellow chief execs at this year’s BookExpo ... Read more

Phew!  That Bishop.  Can the address be published?  Why isn’t it on the tills now, next to those cool Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tracts from Fourth Estate?  A little gift paperback, ... Read more

Congratulations to Publisher of the Year HarperCollins.  This isn’t a Nibbies leak – it’s HarperCollins Australia we’re talking about, named Publisher of the Year at the 2018 Australian Book Industry ... Read more