Come on, Andrew, this is weak. In a piece in last Sunday's Observer entitled 'How intolerable life would be without books and book...

I have been labouring with the Google Settlement for some days now, gathering the views of publishers and authors, hearing their fears about...

This piece by Andy Beckett in the Guardian at the weekend is worth reading. It's a good potted history of the UK book trade over the la...

Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol famously takes place over just 12 hours. It strikes me that the first 12 hours of the book’s publicat...

Couldn't help smiling this evening as the News related the latest claims for expenses being made by MPs - moat-clearing, lawn mower rep...

So Richard & Judy's show on Watch TV (or rather, Don't Watch, because no one did) has been axed. Not surprising, since the view...

Can I return to one of the issues of the moment in the UK, namely the job losses at Waterstone's. They company wants to use more part-t...

So Waterstone's wants to increase the number of part-time staff in its stores. "Being full-time or part-time does not change your ...

Right wing Obama fan?: Jeffrey Archer and wife Mary at Hatchards Authors of the Year party To Hatchards, the 200-year-old bookshop on Picca...

Text messaging strikes me as the perfect form for delivering poetry to readers. Smart publishers should embrace the cell phone, Twitter, Fac...