Quick lit: vending machines dispense false eyelashes, milk – and now books
The UK vending market, having recovered from lockdown, is experiencing huge growth – but is not yet in Japan’s league
Children’s author who sued John Lewis over Christmas ad loses case
Fay Evans alleged similarity between the 2019 Excitable Edgar TV campaign and her self-published book
‘We’re book nerds’: the female friends opening bookshops together
Growing numbers of women in UK are joining forces with friends to run independent bookshops
‘We’ve rediscovered the joy of reading’: how customers are rescuing UK bookshops
A bookseller in Kent has gone viral after tweeting a picture of her empty shop. Here, other retailers explain how they are surviving – even thriving – when many people are counting every penny
New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros
Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery
Indie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail year
Lockdowns were good news for book trade as people read more and sought out bookshops when they reopened
‘They teach us’: how whales can help dispel the myth of green capitalism
In her new book, Adrienne Buller argues the desire to eke profit out of climate policy is wilfully naive
Top 10 books about tycoons
From rapacious businessmen to political power brokers, this literature extends from biographies of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Tiny Rowland to novels by Scott Fitzgerald and Preti Taneja
Paramount scraps $2.2bn sale of Simon & Schuster publishing to Penguin
Penguin owner Bertelsmann will not appeal US judge’s ruling that merger would be illegal because it would hit authors’ pay
The savior CEO and the empty promise of ‘stakeholder capitalism’
Companies may claim to serve employees, communities and the planet – but two books show profit still comes first
Power Failure by William D Cohan review – pulling the plug
General Electric was a 20th-century industrial empire. What caused it to fall apart?
The Guardian view on the book publishing industry: no one size fits all
Editorial: The failure of a recent bid to merge two large publishing companies shines a light on a central issue of cultural power
US judge blocks $2.2bn Penguin Random House merger
Justice department argued the melding of the publishing house with Simon & Schuster would harm competition and authors’ pay
When McKinsey Comes to Town review: the book to consult on opioids, China and more
Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe of the New York Times have done their homework on the management giant
Book prices set to rise as production costs soar, say UK publishers
Firms aim to minimise rises by using cheaper paper and increasing print runs as raw material and energy cost hikes hit sector