For the entertainment industry as a whole, the damage done by the collapse of Woolworths' music, film and game distributor Entertainment UK is likely to be greater than any fillip from lower tax at the tills. EUK distributes to retailers

A deal could be completed within weeks, claimed Neville Kahn, the Deloitte partner who was appointed as Woolworths administrator on Wednesday.

UK news and books retailer WH Smith, in partnership with Danish food and beverage operator Select Service Partner (SSP), has opened a new shop in Pier B at Copenhagen Kastrup airport. The cooperation between SSP and WH Smith took over

The Cervantes prize, the Spanish-language equivalent of the Nobel prize for literature, has been awarded to Catalan novelist Juan Marsé for a body of work focusing on the hardships of life in post-civil war Spain.

Dragons' Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis is among several potential bidders for Woolworths, reports say.

How is it possible that Amazon screws up again on the Kindle supply? If you would order a Kindle ebook reader right now the shipping is estimated to take place in 11-13 weeks, missing December 24th by an eternity.

Nobel prize-winning author VS Naipaul was recently offered the chance by an African witch doctor to put a curse on his biographers, according to his wife, Nadira.

It's in the nature of publishing to plan ahead, and this is truer with so-called humour books than in almost any other area of the trade. After all, those TV tie-in paste-up jobs take time to be knocked together in