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Pick your favourite Harry Potter film. Not the nearest visual approximation of your favourite Harry Potter book, but the one that works best as a…

It’s pretty well documented that January is the most depressing month of the year if you live in the UK. We’ve got nothing to look…

This week, there was a look at How e-reading changes reading habits, but  it was heartening to hear that Humans are hardwired to read books.…

A few weeks back, we reported on an initiative spearheaded by one Chris Gilson that would see the introduction of book swapping facilities at London…

                      Welcome to 2012. While you’re waiting for the publishing world to get back into…

Despite the earlier reported best efforts of 16 separate publishers, this year’s Christmas bestsellers list has not, in fact, been dominated by the cute and…

This is our first ever Christmas party in Edinburgh, and while we can’t say for sure that it’ll be greatest publishing shindig of our times,…

  Sarah Cullington is Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing   This is definitely an exciting time to work in the publishing industry. It seems that…

Claire Vinent is Lead Content & Publishing Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter (@clairevinent).   So ‘working in publishing’…

Last year I took a stab at 6 key publishing predictions for the year ahead. How did I do? Well, my hit rate was pretty…

The Guardian’s piece on the ‘quirky’ titles expected to make a dent in this year’s Christmas bestsellers list makes for a sobering read. Less than…

Even if the prize for this competition wasn’t a year’s supply of potted shrimp, I still would have loved The Omnivore’s Hatchet Job of the…

In a turn of events that many (well, some. A couple. I.) already consider a Christmas miracle, left-leaning broadsheet The Guardian and Tory London mayor…

Cast your mind back a few weeks to the creation of the Literature Prize. The what? The Literature Prize. Remember? It was set up in…