Features
Agents' key Frankfurt Book Fair titles: Part One
Curtis Brown has Tenacity by James Law, a début thriller following the only female investigator in the Royal Navy’s...
Paul Sidey: Obituary
It is impossible to think of Paul Sidey without smiling. His life-affirming energy, formidable intelligence, generosity of spirit, warmth and...
Company spotlight: Blink
It has been less than a year since Bonnier Publishing announced that it was branching out into the world of adult non-fiction, with the launch...
Company Spotlight: The Borough Press
In April The Borough Press, HarperCollins’ latest fiction imprint, opened its doors to the public, subsequently receiving more than 300...
Company spotlight: CILIP
Most organisations’ annual general meetings are a chance for colleagues to get together and rubber-stamp some innocuous paperwork. CILIP,...
The Bookseller Essay: Amazon's advantage
The book industry has made a number of mistakes in dealing with Amazon. Amazon is not interested in the industry’s location within the...
Turbulent times for Europe's chains
Book chains around the globe are having a hard time. What is worse, the whirlwind of structural changes is still gaining momentum, with the...
Porter Anderson meets Laura Dawson
One of the leading go-to people in our industry, Laura Dawson has a lot of nicknames.
As Bowker's director of identifier services...
Lessons learned from Yale 2014
The Yale conference center is leafy green and lovely, yet the real backdrop to its week-long course Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing...
Company spotlight: Pluto Press
To illustrate the difference between working at Pluto Press and most other publishers, m.d. Anne Beech recounts the words of Pluto’s...
Porter Anderson meets Mark Coker
Easily one of the most outspoken of independent authors’ proponents, Smashwords’ founding CEO Mark Coker was one of the first to...
Porter Anderson meets Chris Kubica
While it’s a rare Monday when #PorterMeets an interviewee who can tweet as fast as I can, it’s even less common to welcome an...
Company spotlight: Endeavour Press
Having grown from an idea to a business that is making itself and its authors “decent” money from e-books in just two years,...
Sara Miller McCune offers SAGE advice
Next year SAGE founder Sara Miller McCune will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publishing house she famously founded as a 24-year-old with...
Safari looks to build on subscription success
Digital book subscription service Safari has appointed Eoin Noble as product manager, as it looks to expand its product range and publisher base...
Matt Richell: A tribute
Roland Phillips, m.d. of John Murray, and Richell's close friend Saul Wordsworth pay tribute to the c.e.o. of Hachette Australia and...
The Bookseller Essay: How will we read?
There seems to be a pervasive fear that reading is somehow compromised by the reign of the e-book. “There’s nothing like holding a...
Company spotlight: Melville House UK
It is the final hour of the final day at BookExpo America 2014, but it doesn’t feel like it. The halls are still rammed with booksellers...
Company spotlight: David Fickling Books
The more books you mention, the happier I’ll be,” says David Fickling, whose newly independent publisher, David Fickling Books,...
Company spotlight: Pan Macmillan
The “whiteboard moment” for Pan Macmillan’s current non-fiction strategy came to the division’s boss during the depth of...
