Philip Jones

Amazon UK has said that it will cease selling Bloomsbury’s print and e-books from midnight on 23rd January.

This week’s issue of The Bookseller, our 6,091st, features more than 500 upcoming books.

In 1970, Nobel laureate George Akerlof asserted that when everything looks like a lemon, you don’t want to pay extra for a tangerine. He was theorising about the used-car market, but the argument has also been applied to books.

This week, HarperCollins became the first of the big trade publishers to agree to a licensing arrangement with a company developing artificial intelligence. It won’t be the last.

This week, the Booker Prize was awarded to Samantha Harvey’s Orbital (Jonathan Cape), the first time a book set in space has won the award.

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The Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 arrives with strength and accessibility.

Libraries have a significant, ongoing presence in our lives, on literacy and our reading culture – so let’s hear it for this vital sector

If books are going out of fashion, then someone forgot to tell readers.

Today more than two-thirds of staff across publishing are women, but they have not always been as well represented at the top.