London Book Fair 2024 rescheduled for March
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced its 2024 fair will be rescheduled from April to March 12–14, reports Publishers Weekly. The move to March was prompted when Bologna Children’s...
Windham-Campbell Prizes 2023 recipients announced
Thursday, 6 April 2023
In the US, the recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$175,000 (A$258,000) each, have been announced. For fiction, the prize recognises US author Percival Everett for over 30 works...
Quarto revenue drops 7% in 2022
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
In the UK, the Quarto Group reported a 7% drop in revenue for the year ending 31 December, reports the Bookseller. Despite revenue falling from £122.5 million (A$224m) in 2021...
Faber reports record revenue, profit
Monday, 3 April 2023
In the UK, Faber recorded its best ever revenue and operating profit results in the year ending 31 March 2022, reports the Bookseller. The publisher’s turnover came in ‘well ahead...
PRH revenue up, profit down in 2022
Friday, 31 March 2023
Penguin Random House’s revenue grew 5% in the 2022 financial year, however its profit was down 12% over the same period, according to parent company Bertelsmann’s financial report. PRH revenue...
Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$162,360), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Scribner) Em (Kim Thuy, trans by Sheila...
Judge finds for publishers in Internet Archive copyright case
Monday, 27 March 2023
In the US, a federal judge has found the Internet Archive infringed the copyright of publishers by scanning and lending their books, reports Publishers Weekly. In an opinion granting the...
ALA finds highest book censorship in 20 years
Monday, 27 March 2023
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has found the highest ever number of attempted book bans were made during the year 2022. ALA has released data showing 1269 demands...
BookTok drives about 3% of UK book sales: Nielsen
Friday, 24 March 2023
Consumers inspired by BookTok accounted for 90 million book purchases in the UK last year, according to Nielsen’s latest Books & Consumers survey, reports the Bookseller. The monthly survey asks...
Buckley, De Marcken win 2022 Novel Prize
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced UK author Jonathan Buckley and US author Anne de Marcken as the joint winners of the 2022 Novel Prize, for their...
Key hearing for publishers, Internet Archive case due to start
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
In the US, a federal judge was due to hear cross motions for summary judgement in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Internet Archive’s program to scan and lend...
Vivendi in negotiations to sell Editis
Thursday, 16 March 2023
French media company Vivendi is in exclusive negotiations for the 100% takeover of its subsidiary Editis—France’s second largest publisher—by International Media Invest (IMI), reports the Bookseller. Last year, Vivendi said...
McCann, Cushley win Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
In the UK, writer Jackie McCann and illustrator Aaron Cushley have won the £10,000 (A$18,280) Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for If the World Were 100 People (Red Shed), reports...
Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners shortlist announced
Friday, 10 March 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award—being held to celebrate the prize’s 25th anniversary—has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The annual award, originally known...
Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins US offer voluntary redundancy packages
Thursday, 9 March 2023
In the US, Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins US are both offering voluntary redundancy packages to select employees, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). A Hachette Book Group representative told PW the...
PRH US re-organises divisions, personnel
Thursday, 2 March 2023
In the US, Penguin Random House has undergone a company-wide reorganisation, reports Publishers Weekly. As well as a number of personnel changes among executives, the Random House adult publishing division...
BA survey reveals bookselling demographics
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
In the UK, findings from the Booksellers Association’s (BA) inaugural Workforce Diversity Survey have revealed the demographics of the bookselling workforce, reports the Bookseller. The anonymous online survey of 185...
US publishing sales down 6.4%: AAP
Monday, 27 February 2023
US publishers’ sales fell 6.4% in 2022, according to the latest data from the Association of American Publisher’s StatShot program, reports Publishers Weekly. Sales totalled US$12.6 billion (A$18.7b) from the 1372 publishers...
Bookshop.org to sell ebooks, publish first book
Friday, 24 February 2023
In the US, Bookshop.org will start selling ebooks by the end of the year, and is publishing its first print book in October, reports Publishers Weekly. The ebook program will...
Revenue up, profit down at Bonnier
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Swedish publisher Bonnier Books’s revenue grew 7% to SEK7.4 billion (A$1b) in 2022, while earnings fell 39% to SEK385 million (A$54.3m), reports the Bookseller. The drop in earnings was attributed...
Acquisitions help boost Lagardère Publishing sales
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Hachette parent company Lagardère Publishing’s revenue grew 5.8% in 2022 to €2.75 billion (A$4.2b), though earnings fell 14% to €302 million (A$467m), reports Publishers Weekly. The revenue growth was attributed...
US online sales up 5.6%
Monday, 20 February 2023
In the US, a report from Bookstat found online sales of print books, ebooks and audiobooks grew 5.6% to US$12.13 billion (A$17.7b) in 2022, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookstat covers an...
US bookstore sales rise 6%
Friday, 17 February 2023
In the US, bookstore sales rose an estimated 6.2% last year over 2021 according to preliminary estimates from the US Census Bureau, reports Publishers Weekly. According to US Census Bureau...
Paramount reportedly exploring sale of S&S
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) parent company Paramount is working with a financial adviser to explore a sale of the publisher, reports Reuters. Reuters reports that, according to people familiar with...
B&N sales up in 2022
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
In the US, sales at chain bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) in 2022 were ‘very comfortably’ above pre-pandemic levels, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). CEO James Daunt told PW 2022 was...
HarperCollins US reaches ‘tentative’ agreement with unionised employees, sales down in Q2
Monday, 13 February 2023
HarperCollins US has reached a tentative agreement with its employee union after three months of negotiations, reports Publishers Weekly. UAW Local 2110, which represents more than 250 HarperCollins employees in...
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlists announced
Friday, 10 February 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2023 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Illustrated books The Fairy Garden (Georgia Buckthorn, illus...
BolognaBookPlus 2023 program announced
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) has announced its line-up of events and services for its BolognaBookPlus 2023 program, which takes place alongside the children’s book fair from 6–9 March. BCBF...
IndieBound joins Bookshop.org
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
In the US, the American Bookseller Association’s consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, IndieBound.org, will switch to using Bookshop.org for sales and fulfilment, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookshop.org founder Andy Hunter...
UK publishers’ ebook sales fall
Monday, 6 February 2023
In the UK, sales of ebooks from the ‘Big Six’ publishers fell 8.3% in 2022, reports the Bookseller. The publishers’ ebook volume to 43.6 million units in 2022, the lowest...
