If you are a book lover, you will find our new books area contains not just the unparalleled reviews that appear in the newspaper each Wednesday and Saturday, but a wealth of additional information about books and authors, updated daily. You will be able to read the first chapters of the most important new books and buy securely online from The Times e-shop.

We will also have new dedicated areas for education, media and the law. Each will be updated daily, creating an essential database both for professionals working in these areas and for consumers.

As an existing reader of the online edition of The Times, we invite you to register, in the column to the right of this, and be alerted as soon as the new website is launched. We are also enormously interested in your opinion of these innovations.

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Andy Bull, Editor of The Times online

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