Britain's economy is hurtling towards "recession territory", experts warned last night, as data showed the dominant service sector shrinking at its quickest rate for nearly seven years.
Simply Audiobooks has announced plans to make a full range of Random House audiobook titles available for purchase and download in a DRM-free format. The deal with the Toronto audiobook outfit covers more than 5,000 RH audio titles.
Foyles has furthered its plans to build a 200,000 sq ft mixed use scheme centred on its Charing Cross Road store as it is selected as preferred bidder for the Central St Martin's College of Art and Design at 107-109
An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months.
Sir Simon Jenkins - whose bestselling books include England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses - will now have one of the world's greatest collections of stately homes, castles, churches, farms and follies to play with, as the
Few would doubt the brilliance of Robert Graves, a man considered to be one of Britain's foremost war poets whose verses on Greek mythology and frontline conflict cemented his name in literary history.
ITV is backing the National Year of Reading with the commissioning of Bookaboo!, a multi-platform live-action animation series about a drum-playing rock puppy who can't perform solo unless he's been read a story.
Waterstone's branches were told to take National Book Tokens (NBT) off display earlier this year, and not to order any more cards or envelopes, according to a branch bookseller who contacted PN.
HarperCollins is to rebrand its Collins Reference Division in a change which also secures the services of its Acting MD Katie Fulford, who will head the division.
Maureen Lipman to star in the film version of Martin Wagner's play The Agent, playing the part of the 'publisher' which was 'voiced' by Orion's Group Non-Fiction Publisher, Alan Samson, when it was staged in the West End last summer.
Philip Pullman will host Waterstone's Writer's Table this autumn. Launched earlier this year by Sebastian Faulks, The Writer's Table allows its curator to reveal some of the books and authors that have shaped and influenced their writing.
Informa, the business-to-business media group, has received an approach from a consortium of US private equity firms valuing the company at around £3.4bn, including debts.
Literary agent Barbara Bauer is suing 19 bloggers and websites, including Wikipedia, YouTube and AbsoluteWrite.com, claiming they are ruining her reputation, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported yesterday.
