The winner of the April 2008 Player of the Month sponsored by NG Bailey was Richard Owen NG Bailey & Co

Mark Ramprakash fell for only 17 as his first attempt to post his 100th first-class hundred was cut short by Hampshire seamer James Tomlinson.

England have kept faith with their winning line-up from New Zealand and picked an unchanged side for the opening npower Test against the Kiwis.

Harbhajan Singh has been banned for five one-day internationals by the Board of Control for Cricket in India following his altercation with Sri Sreesanth.

Lord's tends to be batsman-friendly these days but James Anderson still relishes charging in at the famous ground. However, with competition for places he knows he needs to impress in the nets.

Trade union Unite will hold a strike ballot amongst 2000 distribution workers at Argos in a dispute over pay

The People in Retail Awards 2008 are gearing up again for this year's ceremony on October 8 and retailers, hospitality and leisure operators are invited to nominate individuals and teams for the industry's most prestigious awards event.

Random House has acquired the craft, photography and reference publisher Watson-Guptill Publications from Nielsen Business Media (formerly VNU). The sale follows Nielsen's recent moves to get away from its book publishing-focused businesses. In a statement, Greg Farrar, president of Nielsen

Reading to young children stimulates their development and gives them a head start when they reach school, according to researchers who have reviewed studies on the effects of reading. Apart from helping their reading, sharing a bedtime story with a

Wikipedia got a new rival on Tuesday, when the French publisher Larousse introduced an online French-language encyclopedia inviting users to contribute content and offering free access to its dictionary, Agence France-Presse reported. But larousse.fr said its contributors, unlike Wikipedia's, would

Mark Coker, founder of a Silicon Valley public-relations firm that specializes in working with startups, says he started Smashwords.com as a way of trying to help authors deal with the realities of life online. An author himself - of a

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Amazon Web services and cocaine share at least one common attribute. Once you try, it's easy to get hooked.

Next month, Waterstone's is hoping to work something of the same abracadabra on behalf of English PEN and Dyslexia Action. A clutch of authors - including Sebastian Faulks, Doris Lessing, JK Rowling (is it rash to think this one will

They are petty, shabby and shallow, and tell us nothing about the real workings of government. No wonder the latest crop of backbiting political memoirs - from Cherie Blair, Lord Levy and John Prescott - make such compelling reading. But

Latest comment from Gartner reveals that most of the analyst firm's clients will not be ready to meet the PCI-DSS Section 6.6 deadline of 30th June.

Since the interim results on 26 March 2008, trading has remained challenging.

Bookstore sales rose 1.3% in March, to $1.03 billion, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales have increased every month so far in 2008 and finished the first quarter up 5.1%, to $4.46 billion.

Matt Cain made sure the Astros couldn't mount a late rally to save Brandon Backe Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants. Cain dominated the Astros with his bat and right arm, throwing eight strong innings to give the Giants