Literary figures are backing a campaign to preserve the seafront shelter where TS Eliot is believed to have composed some of his most famous lines of poetry

A new centre for literature is opening this September in the Guardian's former exhibition and archive centre in Clerkenwell, London. Free Word, as the venue is called, is to become the home of a cluster of organisations, including the human

Chinese IT giant the Founder Group showed off its $200 Kindle-like e-reader for the Japanese and Chinese market this week at Tokyo's Digital Publishing Fair for the first time.

This September sees the launch of an art book fair for London at the newly expanded Whitechapel Gallery.

Perhaps it's a bit much to ask, but I'd expect that a protective cover purchased for an expensive device like the Amazon Kindle would, at the very least, not damage the product. Matthew Geise shelled over the extra $30 for

The ailing bookseller Borders UK is in advanced talks with Hilco's private equity arm over a potential sale of its 46 stores. The restructuring company's Valco Capital Partners unit plans to acquire the entire shareholding of Borders UK and take

J.R.R. Tolkien sold movie rights to his "Lord of the Rings" novels 40 years ago for 7.5 percent of future receipts. Three films and $6 billion later, his heirs say they haven't seen a dime from Time Warner Inc.

Taiwan's largest book store operator and one of its biggest mobile phone service providers have teamed up to promote e-books on the island. They plan to launch an e-book service and e-reader by the second quarter of next year.

Retail sales in June grew 1.4 per cent on a like-for-like basis helped by the heatwave across the country and clearance Sales.

Amid the post-election turmoil and public protests that have roiled Iran over the last several weeks, one of the most poignant (and potent) symbols for the opposition has been Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman shot by a government sniper in

The Productivity Commission has recommended the removal of parallel import restrictions on books in Australia and it has got opinion divided

The number of retailers facing "critical" financial troubles has increased 91 per cent in the second quarter of this year compared to 2008.

V. S. Naipaul has a new literary agent. After 30 years of working closely with U.K.-based veteran Gillon Aitken, the Nobel Prize-winning author of A House For Mr. Biswas has signed on with the mighty and ruthless American Andrew Wylie.

Borders has confirmed the completion of the sale of its UK business to a management buyout team led by Philip Downer, Chief Executive and Finance Director, Mark Little.

Colin Cotterill has won the Dagger in the Library; writer Fred Vargas and translator Sîan Reynolds have triumphed in the International Dagger for the third time in four years; Sean Chercover has won the Short Story Dagger and Catherine O'Keefe

A supermarket checkout girl and a nondescript government minister meet by chance. They begin a torrid love affair and she is offered a seat in Parliament, but before she sets out on the political stage her lover dumps her and

Amazon is close to finalising a launch date for its 'Kindle' electronic book reader in the UK and is in advanced negotiations with a mobile operator for an MVNO (that is a mobile virtual network operator to you and me).

A prominent group of children's authors and illustrators have said that they will stop visiting schools in protest against a new vetting scheme which comes into place in the Autumn.

The multi-million selling author said despite the clamour from fans she has no plans for an 'adult' Hogwarts novel.

McGraw-Hill, the owner of the Standard & Poor's credit-rating company, is cutting 550 jobs, or about 2.5 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring to combine two education-publishing units.