Savikas, Fershleiser and Boyle to speak at FutureBook 2014
Andrew Savikas, chief executive of the subscriptions business Safari, Rachel Fershleiser, literary community organiser at Tumblr, and David Boyle, executive vice president of Insight, at...
View ArticleFuturebook Award submissions deadline tonight
Submissions for FutureBook Awards close at midnight tonight (Friday 2nd October).
View ArticleCreative Access future at risk without funding
Creative Access will run out of funding next year unless an urgent new source is found, the charity's founder Josie Dobrin has warned....
View ArticleMedia embraces Super Thursday
Super Thursday and Books Are My Bag celebrations today (8th October) have attracted widespread media coverage from the BBC, Sky and national newspapers.Jeremy...
View ArticleFutureBook shortlists focus on imaginative publishing
Eight book tech companies, 15 digital books, 10 marketing/publicity campaigns, seven platforms and 15 individuals from within the book business will go head to head...
View ArticleThe Bookseller and The Sunday Times to run weekly e-book charts
The Bookseller and The Sunday Times are to run weekly e-book bestseller charts, with data supplied by all of the main trade publishers to The...
View ArticleHarperCollins scoops two at FutureBook Awards
HarperCollins scooped two prizes at The FutureBook Awards, held at the end of The FutureBook Conference (4th December), but there were also wins for Hachette,...
View ArticlePublishing'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.
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