Investigations
An eight-month investigation into unpaid royalties and the collapse of Unbound and its successor, Boundless. The reporting won Content Piece of the Year at the 2025 PPA Independent Publisher Awards.
The Bookseller · 24 November 2025The Bookseller wins PPA Independent Publisher Award for Unbound investigation
The Bookseller · 1 August 2025Unbound successor Boundless goes into liquidation
The Bookseller · 6 June 2025Boundless’ position ‘morally and financially unacceptable’, says John Mitchinson
The Bookseller · 5 June 2025Boundless CEO Archna Sharma blames Unbound’s collapse on ‘bad decisions’
The Bookseller · 17 April 2025Crowdfunders ‘won’t receive refunds’ for projects dropped by publisher Unbound, authors told
The Bookseller · 12 March 2025Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher
The Bookseller · 25 February 2025Unbound authors await update on delayed payments as publisher launches new Boundless magazine
The Bookseller · 17 January 2025Exclusive: Unbound faces ‘financial uncertainty’ as authors wait for delayed payments
AI Reporting
The Bookseller · 29 October 2026Publishers urge US court to reject OpenAI’s fair use defence in copyright case
The Bookseller · 20 October 2026New literary prize Prix Pascal launches in France for manuscripts written with AI
The Bookseller · 9 October 2026Ghostwriters haunted by AI as commissions fall and machine-written manuscripts rise
The Bookseller · 20 August 2026Harriman House claims trade publishing first with ‘AI-facilitated’ Raoul Pal book
The Bookseller · 6 July 2026AI copyright litigation yet to resolve key questions for publishers
The Bookseller · 26 June 2026Commonwealth Foundation review asked winners to ‘prove creative process’ after AI allegations
The Bookseller · 25 June 2026Granta stands by decision to end Commonwealth Foundation partnership despite AI review outcome
The Bookseller · 24 June 2026Artificial intelligence already embedded in publishing in China
The Bookseller · 24 June 2026Over 250 UK publishers opt in to collective AI licensing scheme
The Bookseller · 18 May 2026SoA and Writers’ Guild issue ‘urgent’ author guidance after ‘explosion’ of AI scams
The Bookseller · 17 April 2026Character.ai lets users ‘play inside’ classic literature
The Bookseller · 13 March 2026Publishers must act on AI misinformation ‘now, not after people have already been manipulated’
The Bookseller · 10 March 2026Publishers urged to take steps to improve chances of books being recommended by AI
The Bookseller · 10 March 2026Around 10k authors protest AI commercial research exception with publication of empty book
The Bookseller · 24 April 2025MPs argue that AI text and data-mining exemption lacks effective ‘opt-out’
The Bookseller · 2 April 2025Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta’s London HQ
The Bookseller · 24 October 2024Cambridge University Press & Assessment writes to 20k authors for AI licensing ‘opt-in’
The Bookseller · 7 August 2024Creators demand immediate change from companies developing AI
The Bookseller · 12 April 2024A third of translators report losing work to generative AI systems
Interviews
The Bookseller · 11 August 2026Academic publishers must not get stuck in ‘war of AI against AI’, STM chief exec warns
The Bookseller · 10 July 2026Thangam Debbonaire on AI: ‘You have to ask the bigger philosophical question’
The Bookseller · 8 July 2026Bookshop.org to sell audiobooks to support indies ‘in all formats’
The Bookseller · 11 June 2026Truman Books goes from strength to strength in Yorkshire
The Bookseller · 14 July 2025‘Reading should and can encompass all formats’: Spotify’s ‘bookseller’ on the rise of audio
The Bookseller · 1 November 2024PRH Audio to work ‘hand-in-hand’ with authors as it trials AI recording methods
The Bookseller · 11 October 2024Profile Books goes from strength to strength
Features
The Bookseller · 29 May 2026LitUp’s Battle of Hastings: reading on the up in one of England’s most deprived areas
The Bookseller · 25 April 2025Bookshop Spotlight: The Hours Cafe & Bookshop
The Bookseller · 7 February 2025Bookshop Spotlight: Sherlock & Pages
The Bookseller · 26 May 2023Publishers’ development of Black writers questioned as data shows bestseller wane
Packaging Europe · 5 January 2022PFAS-free packaging: preparing for a future without ‘forever chemicals’
Packaging Europe · 2 December 2021How Sumaira Latif brought accessible design to P&G
Packaging Europe · 16 November 2021More than an inconvenience: why accessible packaging matters
Packaging Europe · 27 September 2021How can packaging become more accessible for people who are blind or partially sighted?
HuffPost UK · 5 August 2020I’m Fat, And Living In A World Where I Literally Don’t ‘Fit’
National Press
The Sunday Times · 22 September 2024Mohamed Al Fayed twice escaped charges over sexual abuse
The Sunday Times · 8 October 2023The headphones are in — how a literary editor learnt to love the audiobook (additional reporting)
The Sunday Times · 18 December 2022Why did Zara Aleena’s killer have more rights than she did, family asks
The Telegraph · 10 December 2022Ngozi Fulani’s charity Sistah Space halts work over safety concerns
The Sunday Times · 7 March 2021Why rom-coms like Bridget Jones and Hitch would never get made today (additional reporting)
International Reporting
The Bookseller · 20 March 2025Palestinian bookseller on ‘shocking’ raids on Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop
The New Arab · 9 December 2022‘When we are asked who we are, we say Iranian’: How the Iranian diaspora is experiencing a shift in identity
The New Arab · 11 October 2022‘For me, it is a fight against darkness’: How Iranian men are standing up for women, life, and freedom
VICE · 17 March 2021Four Years Later, the #MeToo Movement Has Finally Hit Greece