In a focus session on "Digital Transformation and Disruption in African Publishing" at the International Publishers Association‘s (IPA) "Africa Rising" seminar in Nairobi, hosted by the Kenya Publishers Association, two panelists will have the same last name-and almost the same face.

Guardian research shows that the top 100 illustrated children's books last year showed growing marginalisation of female and minority ethnic characters

The Publishers Association released the results of a survey, commissioned by Kantar, into the reading habits of 2,001 UK adults.

It found the main barrier to reading is a lack of time, with audiobooks cited as a popular solution to the problem.

‘First the length. In an age of ever-shortening attention spans, you have to have a pretty powerful message to keep anyone's interest for much over 75,000 words (about 300 pages). In fact, if you can't present your proposition in 300 pages, then you may have a problem with excessive verbiage you...

For Allen Lau, it turns out that sometimes the biggest decision in a business can be to stick to your original idea and build on it.

That's his story, anyway. It's the story of Wattpad Corp., a Canadian company that started in 2006 as an online reading room and now attracts 70 million...

The creator of the classic children's books The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat, Judith Kerr, who has died aged 95, was unusual in being equally successful as a writer and an illustrator.