Go bookshops, go! The first National Bookshop Day is coming to the UK…
On 8th October, The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland is holding its first National Bookshop Day, with around 2,000 bookshops participating. What awaits book lovers on this inaugural day?… Read more »
Another UK player bows out of the ebook market…
Back in May, we reported that Waterstones would stop selling e-books directly from 14th July and would instead be partnering with Kobo. Only two months later and (rather recent) history… Read more »
Don’t judge a book by its… title?
We’ve all heard the old cliché “don’t judge a book by its cover.” But how about judging a book by its title? As publishers, we spend long, agonising meetings brainstorming… Read more »
It’s Booker time!
The Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist was announced yesterday at noon. The Booker “dozen” of thirteen novels was chosen from 155 submissions, published in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 30… Read more »
Have you written your bestseller yet? No? Well you’re falling behind as nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak already has…
Nine-year-old journalist and soon-to-be author Hilde Kate Lysiak has just signed a four-book deal with Scholastic. So who is this incredible youngster? No stranger to the written word, Lysiak started Orange Street News in… Read more »
Got a spare £8 million lying about? Then you could snap up the jewel-studded book of hours–bargain!
A rare, jewelled prayer book that once belonged to by King François I of France and has been in UK collections since 1720 could be leaving the country. Art experts… Read more »
Here come the Brexit books…
It was inevitable. With the UK waiting to leave the EU, and Scotland waiting to leave the UK, publishers are looking to tell the inside story of the Brexit battle.… Read more »
Brexit is nigh as the UK divides — unbeknownst to a certain mangled apricot hellbeast…
It has happened—Britain is facing a Brexit situation, with 51.9% of the population voting to leave the European Union. So was happens next? The future is widely uncertain. Before the… Read more »
Philip Jones, editor of the Bookseller, shares his thoughts on what Brexit could mean for the publishing industry
The 52% to 48% split in the UK’s recent referendum on leaving the EU provided a slim and controversial win for the ‘leave’ campaign, leading to an impending Brexit. However,… Read more »
Leave or remain: with Britain on the verge of a momentous decision, where does the book industry stand?
One of the biggest political decisions to face Britons in their lifetime is looming—the European Union referendum, with polling stations opening today, June 23rd. The British public will be voting on whether to… Read more »