Book trade: One chapter closes

Editorial: The story of Borders encapsulates the good and bad aspects of British publishing and bookselling since the Net Book Agreement ended in 1997

We need to have words

Mark Vernon: The closure of Chambers Harrap's Edinburgh office shows that dictionaries are in danger. Don't abandon them to the internet

The Google digital library row explained

As a New York judge prepares to rule on its legitimacy, Philip Jones explains why the search engine's digitisation of millions of books has huge implications for the books world