Nosy Crow crowned IPG Publisher of the Year

Children’s publisher Nosy Crow has been awarded the top honour of Fox Williams Independent Publisher of the Year for the second time at this year's IPG Independent Publishers Awards... Read more

Indies debate removing r.r.p in face of soaring overheads

Independent booksellers face a potentially toxic cocktail of pressures thanks to the new National Minimum Wage, business rates rises and looming changes to pension contributions. Read more

Academy of British Cover Design Awards 2015 winners revealed

The third annual Academy of British Cover Design Awards have been revealed, with Waterstones Book of the Year 2015 winner Coralie Bickford Smith among those honoured. Read more

Nook pulls out of UK

Nook is pulling out of the UK and transferring its UK customers to Sainsbury's. Read more
Regional independent bookshop of the year winners crowned

Relative newcomers, shops reinvigorated by new owners and an institution still innovating in its 70th year are among the regional winners of this year’s British... Read more
Perseus sells client services business to Ingram

The Perseus Books Group has confirmed it is selling its client services business to Ingram only days after confirming the sale of its publishing business... Read more
Hachette launches football 'gamebook' series

Hachette UK will this May launch a ‘gamebook’ series, combining storytelling and gaming, starting with a title based on the New Star Soccer game.... Read more
John Murray acquires 'ambitious, genre-blending' British debut

John Murray has acquired an "ambitious" and "dizzying" multilayered debut novel, The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes. Read more
Literacy and apps debated at Westminster Media Forum

The book trade must take care to ensure readers don't become "an endangered species" say leading publishing figures, in wake of reports shining a light on the UK's dire literacy rates... Read more

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As The Bookseller publishes its first non-book product preview, Maria Vassilopoulos looks at the history of bookshops selling things that aren't books. Read more
The rhyme of the agency publisher

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A New Day dawns

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FutureBook

Growth curve: Together Tales

By Evan Jones

CEO/MD/Director/GM/Owner at Together Tales

The latest in our series asking startups to share the challenges they face and lessons they learn as they grow catches up with Evan Jones, founder of Toronto-based interactive children's book company Together Tales, which was a finalist in the BookTech Company of the Year Award at the FutureBook Conference 2015. Read more
5 inspiring things: George Walkley

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