Just weeks after submitting an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals, RDR Books has withdrawn its challenge to Judge Robert P. Patterson's September ruling in J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment's copyright infringement suit against the publisher. Judge Patterson's
Sony announced that it has sold 300,000 Sony Readers since the digital e-reader went on sale in 2006. Galley Cat reports the Bookseller has the 'scoop': "So far three million books have been downloaded from its online library, which is
Reed Elsevier, the FTSE-100 media giant, is close to selling the publisher of New Scientist and Variety to US buyout group Bain Capital for $1bn (£680m), after its main rival pulled out.
Four hundred quid? For a book of photos? Who are the thousand people who can afford a luxury like that? But the price of coffee-table books has gone a little mad since the days when a Thames & Hudson book
Gardners is supplying Sainsbury's, one of the supermarkets left without supplies of books when EUK, part of Woolworths, went into administration. Book supply from EUK to other customers resumed last week.
Academics and writers in Turkey have risked a fierce official backlash by issuing a public apology for the alleged genocide suffered by Armenians at the hands of Ottoman forces during the first world war.
A drive to improve reading standards which includes encouraging parents to read to children will be outlined today in the most far-reaching review of primary schooling in 20 years.
A joint venture has been formed between Firebrand Technologies and Rosetta Solutions to take over NetGalley, the year-old company that aims let publishers manage and distribute galleys through an online service.
A hint of optimism follows one of publishing's bleakest weeks in the form of digital announcements from two of the big trade houses: Penguin Books and Random House.
The chief creative brain at Postman Pat and Rupert Bear group Entertainment Rights has followed the boss out of the door as the group clears out a third of its staff before Christmas in return for a bigger overdraft from
The 2008 Nobel laureate JMG le Clézio looked to the wider world in his Nobel lecture last night, warning of the dangers of information poverty and calling for publishers to increase their efforts to put books in the hands of
