Digital age

Print continues to serve both ends of the marketplace, but it's hard to see the wider digital market as a failure.

On 5 July Picador, which is part of the Pan MacmillanOne of largest fiction and non-fiction book publishers in UK; includes imprints of Pan, Picador and Macmillan Children’s Books conglomerate, announced that its publishing director, Philip Gwyn Jones, was stepping down "by mutual agreement" after two years in the role. Gwyn Jones, a respected publisher with long experience, had been criticised for his handling of a row over Kate Clanchy's memoir, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me.  Read more

Digital Book World 2017 was revamped this year into four different tracks: Editorial Acquisitions and Development, Production and Distribution, Marketing and Sales, and Data Analysis and Reporting.  Read more

2016 - it has been agreed - is the worst year ever, and publishing hasn't escaped the catastrophe. When one of the opening keynote speakers at #FutureBook16, Tim Hely Hutchinson of Hachette UK, said "the book market is in secular decline" it felt like time to get our coats.  Read more

The digital revolution that flummoxed the music, movie and publishing industries has given rise to a surprising winner: the audiobook.  Read more