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Monday 13th February |
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Book Trade News
Empty shop numbers 'set to rise in 2012' The number of empty shops on UK High Streets is set to rise in 2012
Prince Charles To Lead Charles Dickens Celebrations The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will lead global celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth
Discoverability In The Digital Age How do people discover books in the digital age? The answer might surprise you.
Bleak News For Library Campaign Brent campaigners' final appeal to supreme court against halving the borough's provision will not be heard
Two More Giant Retailers Join Boycott Of Books Published By Amazon Books-A-Million and Canada's number one book retailer Chapters Indigo join boycott
BBC's Sherlock Causes Sales Of Arthur Conan Doyle Novels To Double BBC's modern take on the detective series was a huge hit with viewers
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Is Our Favourite And Most Widely Read Children's Book Cinderella, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Spot the Dog also make top ten
Independent Author Makes $150,000 In Six Weeks By Forgoing Publishing Houses And Using Kindle Now trumpeting the ease of the web behemoth's Kindle platform for less-established authors
End Of The Road For Twitter's Fake McCarthy To say it was a surprise when Cormac McCarthy appeared to have turned up on Twitter would be an understatement worthy of the reclusive novelist himself
French Bookshops Have Novel Plan To Fight VAT Rise Booksellers hint at a possible 'labelling strike' where they would simply refuse to stick new price tags on books
Amazon Kindle Touch Now Available Internationally, Not In UK Great news — the Amazon Kindle Touch is now available to buy outside the US. The bad? It's still not available in the UK
Kindle Fire Owners 'Less Satisfied' Than Apple iPad Owners Amazon Kindle Fire owners are less satisfied than those who own an Apple iPad, according to a new survey
Children Lack Ability For Dickens, Says Biographer Tomalin Due to "being reared on dreadful television programmes"
Blue Peter Seeks Best Children's Book Of Last Decade Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Theodore Boone are among the books vying for the title
Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits To E-book Lending Random House officials said the "terms of sale" for Random House e-books to libraries will change
Tulisa Signs Three-book Deal For Tell-all Memoir Fierce bidding war, apparently
BEA Adds Children's Day Reed Exhibitions and the American Booksellers Association have made a number of tweaks
Children Lap Up Storytelling Session At New Selfridges Library Schooldchildren from across London are being invited to Selfridges - not to shop, but for reading lessons with a difference
Waterstones Ends Unpaid Work Placements After Investigation Waterstones stops using unpaid jobseekers, as government rejects claim scheme is contrary to Human Rights Act
Crime Novels Dominate Library Lending Crime thrillers are the most borrowed books from British libraries
£2m Share Sell-off By Chief Executive Has WH Smith Sliding Raising capital to buy herself more property, according to a company spokesperson
The Future Of Libraries: Meeting The Minister Alan Gibbons, Julia Donaldson, John Holland, and Gary Green enjoy 'a blunt, purposeful exchange of views' with culture minister Ed Vaizey
Revenge Of The Interns Former interns sues Harper's Bazaar seeking unpaid wages
Wislawa Szymborska Dead At 88 Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the "Mozart of poetry," has died in her hometown of Krakow
Amazon Results Spotlight Digital Books A slowdown in Amazon's content sales in North America cast a spotlight on how digital books are altering the online retailer's revenue model |