A Money Programme on BBC2 in January will explore the state of the publishing industry.

In a sign of further setbacks at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which represents authors like Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer and Günter Grass, the publisher of the company's adult trade division has resigned.

The prospects of a bleak Christmas on the high street are rising sharply as a survey out today shows a big fall in consumer spending in spite of lower interest rates and petrol prices.

Amazon has completed its previously announced acquisition of AbeBooks, the British Columbia-based online marketplace for books.

JK Rowling's new Harry Potter spin-off - a collection of short stories mentioned in the final book of the boy wizard series - goes on sale on Thursday with retailers expecting a rush of pre-Christmas buyers.

If a publishing house isn't buying books, decried many, then what is its purpose? If a publishing house isn't buying books, how much longer will it need editors? Even those of us heartened by the new appreciation that backlist will

Teenagers largely bought their books at the national bookstore chains in 2007, while their grandparents shopped for books from a variety of outlets. That was one of the findings drawn from PubTrack Consumer, the R.R. Bowker service that uses a

Woolworths' move into administration has forced fellow retailer Zavvi to stop taking new orders for CDs, DVDs and computer games via its website.

Total sales for the USA's three largest bookstore chains fell 6.3% for the quarter ended November 1, with revenue falling to $1.93 billion. For the first nine months of the year, total sales were down 3.6%, and there is a

The entire Woolworths empire, including its stake in 2Entertain, the BBC joint venture, is likely to be in administration by the end of the week, with its 10,000 pensioners at the back of a queue of creditors hoping to get

BBC said it was still in discussions with Woolworths Group Plc regarding the purchase of the collapsed retail group's 40 percent stake in DVD publishing business 2Entertain.

Before the economy headed downhill-CEO George Jones called the current retail climate "by far the most difficult I've ever seen during my 36-year retail career"-Borders had anticipated "much stronger earnings." But then the company responded quickly, Jones said: "We got

Tired of traditional book groups? Sick of reading the same books everybody else reads?

The cost of credit insurance is set to rise after Euler Hermes, the world's market leader, issued a profit warning after the collapse of Woolworths, the British retailer.

Amazon has launched its long-awaited digital music download service, Amazon MP3.

The long anticipated restructuring of Random House was announced this morning a letter sent by chairman Markus Dohle to company employees. The reorganization will involve the consolidation of several publishing groups and the elimination of jobs held by Irwyn Applebaum

In what has to be one of the grimmest days in publishing in recent years, Simon & Schuster announced today that it has eliminated 35 positions. According to a memo from CEO Carolyn Reidy, the cuts came in all areas

An intricate, kaleidoscopic, all-embracing history of 20th-century music from Mahler to La Monte Young is the winner of this year's Guardian first book award. Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise was the clear and undisputed winner of the £10,000 prize,

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