Looking at the numbers, Oprah's retirement looks like a huge blow for book publishing. Between 1996 and 2002, almost all of Oprah's Book Club monthly picks of contemporary novels on her show - generally, midlist titles, like Jacqueline Mitchard's The

US actress Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz and teen starlet Saoirse Ronan braved a rain-drenched red carpet in London last night for the Royal Film Performance of The Lovely Bones, the latest movie from Peter Jackson. Sadly for the Lord of

China said Google has probably breached copyright laws by scanning Chinese books for its online library and supported writers to "defend their rights", state media reported Tuesday.

The War narrative 'Da' won the top prize from the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards, which is Iran's most prestigious and lucrative literary award.

Headline Publishing Group is making some major changes resulting in new hires, promotions and layoffs, Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson announced. The company will be publishing less nonfiction and uniting its marketing, digital and design departments.

Borders UK said that existing customer orders are also being delayed but will be fulfilled.

Sales of non-food products by UK supermarkets are expected to increase by 40pc to £16.2bn over the next five years, as Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's continue to expand into new product categories away from food.

Not since judges of the Whitbread Prize shrugged off accusations of sentimentality to name Ted Hughes as the posthumous winner in 1998 has there been a dead author in line for a major book award.

Total sales at Borders Group continued to sink in the third quarter, though the chain did better on the bottom-line. Revenue fell 12.7% in the quarter ended October 31, to $595.5 million, while the loss form continuing operations was cut

Reporting result for the first time since completing the acquisition of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, Barnes & Noble Inc. said total revenue rose 4%, to $1.16 billion, with sales from the college stores contributing $65 million to overall revenue.

Catherine Hetherington, the owner of The New Book Shop, as she went back for the first time to see the damage caused by the floods.

In these difficult times there's a little more security in adapting a book than in commissioning an original script," says Liza Marshall, head of drama at Channel 4 and soon to be head of film and TV at Ridley Scott's

A parody of Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue: An American Life" has been causing huge confusion - forcing Palin's publishers HarperCollins to take out ads to direct buyers to the official version.

The Digital Economy Bill, published on Friday, will bring in unexpected registration requirements and government control over authors' agents and some publishers, according to copyright experts at national law firm Beachcroft LLP. Such agents - along with certain picture libraries,

The British newspaper industry is on the verge of an historic schism, a fundamental split in beliefs that will set one part of the business on a collision course with the other.

Informa has held early stage talks with its rival Springer Science and Business Media over buying the German academic publisher whose private equity owners are looking to sell the whole business at a reduced valuation.

Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale.

In a vast warehouse, the size of eight football pitches and around 15 minutes from the centre of Milton Keynes, more than a thousand workers are gearing up for what will likely be Amazon's busiest Christmas yet.

A first edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking Origin Of Species, which languished for years in a toilet, will go under the hammer this week, on the 150th anniversary of the book's publication. Christie's auction house said the book, estimated to

French intellectuals have heaped scorn on a proposal by Nicolas Sarkozy to bestow the country's greatest posthumous honour upon the writer Albert Camus, accusing the rightwing president of trying to cash in on the thinker's popularity with little respect for