Publishing's selfie
In a week's time, a significant rump of the book business will decamp to Frankfurt for the annual book fair, now in its 66th year....
View ArticleGeneration XX
Women tend to dominate issues of The Bookseller. Last week it was Murtagh, Enright, Atkinson and Harper Lee; this week it is Baroness Rebuck, Tonkinson,...
View ArticleGeneral confection
How will the book trade vote in 2015? Despite its sometimes patrician image, the trade—according to The Bookseller’s online poll—is now firmly behind...
View ArticleThe blame game
"Publishers have only themselves to blame,” is perhaps one of my favourite phrases de nos jours. Closely followed, of course, by booksellers . . ....
View ArticleA clause with claws
Can Amazon be allowed to contractually enforce arrangements that secure its hegemony?In 2011 the European Commission opened an investigation into e-book price-fixing...
View ArticleTrading faces
In the seven years since The Bookseller began its annual selection of publishing’s influencers, The Bookseller 100—which, along with the Rising Stars, attempts to show...
View ArticleHealthy living
Philip Jones looks back at 2015, and ahead to what might happen this year.
View ArticleThe creationists
Publishing is not one thing, it is many. Publishers can be big, small, good, bad, incompetent, indie, corporate, fun, cynical, efficient, exasperating, guileless, greedy, generous,...
View ArticleAfter the party
The British Book Industry Awards and the PA's Statistics Yearbook shows the industry is in good health, but a clear vision for the business is...
View ArticleE-books: a twist in the tale
Philip Jones takes a deeper look at what the numbers in the PA Statistics Yearbook say about the publishing industry.
View ArticleQuick, quick, back
Philip Jones looks at back at predictions for the future of e-book retail.
View ArticleThe Bookseller distributed at Beijing International Book Fair
The Bookseller is to distribute an English and Chinese version of The Bookseller Daily at the Beijing International Book Fair in 2016....
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