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Writedowns on property assets pushed book group Eason and Son €26.3m into the red in 2008. The company, which is owned by 250 shareholders, including current and former staff, posted the operating loss which included the Eason joint venture distribution

US trade magazine Publishers Weekly has come under fire for failing to include a single woman in its list of the top 10 titles of 2009.

Amazon has added a new feature to its Amazon Associates program, which will allow members to directly share links to Amazon products and earn money via Twitter.

Lagardère Publishing was the lone bright spot for parent company Lagardère SCA for the nine month period ended September 30 with total revenue up 8.3%, to €1.69 million, or a rise of 8.8% on a like-for-like basis. Sales rose 5.1%

Simon & Schuster turned in its best quarter of the year in the period ended September 30 with sales increasing 2.4%, to $230.4 million, and operating income ahead 13.6%, to $26.6 million.

Borders Group is accelerating the pace of closing stores in its Waldenbooks Specialty Retail group, announcing Thursday that it will shut approximately 200 outlets in January. The retailer has been steadily closing its mall-based stores since 2001 and will have

Penguin Books and Ubisoft announced today a groundbreaking partnership that will bring together the worlds of gaming and publishing in a unique collaboration. The new book, Assassin's Creed Renaissance, is based on Ubisoft Entertainment's blockbuster game Assassin's Creed II, and

Deloitte said that higher unemployment, taxes and National Insurance contributions will take their toll on retail sales next year.

The postal strikes have been called off until at least the New Year to allow for fresh talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union.

Atradius, one of the leading credit insurance firms, is to increase cover to UK companies.

Quarto's results for the period from 1 July and unaudited results to 30 September are "in line with expectations".

A plan by the European Parliament to restrict the power of national governments to disconnect illegal filesharers has been dumped to win agreement on new telecoms competition laws.

When her mother-in-law Nancy was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Andrea Gillies and her family took the decision to move to a remote peninsula in northern Scotland to a house with space to accommodate Nancy and her elderly husband. Gillies kept an

The "Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For" list is Book Business' annual ranking of companies that embody the philosophy that a company's employees are the key to its success, and that employee happiness translates to a more motivated, productive

Haitian-born Canadian writer Dany Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers on Wednesday were awarded France's Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing.

Thousands of protesters have shamed publishing house Scholastic into u-turning their decision to ban a school book because it featured lesbian parents.

He came to Australia as a refugee from Vietnam, and now Nam Le's debut collection of short stories has triumphed over the cream of the country's novelists to win the Australian prime minister's literary award for fiction.

After a difficult fiscal 2009, which ended June 30, HarperCollins reported a big jump in operating profit for the first quarter ended September 30, though sales slipped slightly. Profits in the period rose to $20 million from $3 million in

Sefi Atta has won this year's Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. Her collection of short stories titled, Lawless and Other Stories published last year by Farafina, an imprint of Kachifo Limited, Lagos, won her the prize, which is worth