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Bookseller Waterstone's says it had to cancel a poetry launch after its author deliberately whipped up a "furore".
A poet is forced to launch his new collection in the street after a Christian group lobbied the bookstore.
Festival organisers claim they will stage what could be the world's shortest physics lectures.
Karl Marx is back in fashion, says one German publisher, who attributes his new popularity to the world economic crisis.
Entertainment retailer HMV sees sales growth fall off sharply in the last three months.
Independent bookshops club together to boost their buying power so they can compete with the big chains.
Book sales are in rude health, buoyed by reading groups. Yet the picture is not so rosy for independent bookshops. Tell us what makes your favourite special.
Hillary Clinton once seemed certain to win in Ohio and Texas, but Ohio for one is turning into a tighter race, writes Louisa Brooke.
UK internet sales rose by 50% in the run up to Christmas, compared with a year earlier, a survey says.
Shares in HMV jump as much as 17% after the music and books firm says Christmas was "really cracking".
Londonderry's last independent book store is to close its doors after 30 years in business.
A monthly freesheet newspaper featuring short stories, poems and cartoons is launched in London.
In the information economy, communication skills and curiosity about the world is as crucial as an interest in science, says Bill Gates.
Music and books retailer HMV cuts its losses to £28.7m over the six months to the end of October.
An 11-year-old Leamington girl who went missing after saying she was going shopping is found.
As the Booker Prize looms, every competing publisher has every finger crossed that their book will be boosted into the stratosphere. But what are the reasons a book sells well?
The key quotes, the big stories and the best pictures from the 2007 Labour party conference.
Emma Jane Kirby reports on how the Left Bank is becoming a battleground between the Parisian council and international retailers.
Regular columnist Bill Thompson says our trust should only be given to technology when it is merited.
Bookstores across Scotland are flooded by fans desperate to get their hands on the final Harry Potter book.
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