S&S UK appoints publishing director of new digital-first imprint
Thursday, 5 February 2026
In the UK, Victoria Pepe has been appointed publishing director of a new Simon & Schuster UK (S&S) digital-first imprint to be launched later this year, reports the Bookseller. Pepe,...
Latest UK book award announcements
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
In the UK, the winners of two major literary awards have been announced. Weatherglass Novella Prize winners The 2026 Weatherglass Novella Prize has been jointly awarded to Jupiter Jones’s The...
Job cuts at S&S US
Tuesday, 3 February 2026
In the US, Simon & Schuster announced job cuts early last week followed by further unspecified cuts later in the week, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). In the first round of...
Singapore base for Bloomsbury
Monday, 2 February 2026
Bloomsbury Publishing has announced a new office, Bloomsbury Singapore, “from which to publish for the exploding number of university students in Asia”, reports Bookbrunch. “The early focus of the Singapore...
Frankfurt Book Fair names new CEO
Thursday, 29 January 2026
Joachim Kaufmann has been named the next president and CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), effective September 2026, reported Publishers Weekly (PW). Kaufmann will take over after this...
US bestselling publishers ranked
Wednesday, 28 January 2026
In the US, the latest rankings of 2025 sales by Publishers Weekly (PW) have confirmed the Big Five publishers’ dominance of the bestseller lists. Although Big Five publishers’ hardcover sales...
IPA launches Freedom of Expression Defenders Award
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has launched the inaugural Freedom of Expression Defenders Award, which “aims to recognise people, companies, organisations or coalitions who are promoting the freedom of expression,...
Waterstones’s sales up 7% in 2025 financial year
Thursday, 22 January 2026
In the UK, Waterstones has reported a 7% increase in annual sales for the financial year ending 3 May 2025, reports the Bookseller. Sales were up from £528.4 million (A$1.05...
Literary Hub lists ‘best book covers of the decade’
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
In the US, Literary Hub (LH) has published its choice of the nation's best book covers of the past decade. The list draws on LH’s annual best book covers of the...
Libraro and Hachette UK launch £50,000 “reader-led” prize
Tuesday, 20 January 2026
Hachette UK and community-driven digital platform Libraro have launched a “reader-led” prize that aims “to discover the next big English-language fiction author,” reported the Bookseller yesterday. The winner is set...
Cengage, Hachette seek to join AI copyright suit against Google
Monday, 19 January 2026
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced that educational publisher Cengage Group and Hachette Book Group have initiated a move to represent publishers in In Re Google Generative AI...
Nero Book Awards winners announced
Thursday, 15 January 2026
In the UK, the winners of the Nero Book Awards have been announced, representing “the very best in literary craft and storytelling, offering readers a wide range of voices and...
Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Genre fiction boomed in the United States during 2025 – a year in which hundreds of new bookshops opened, reported the New York Times (NYT) in its retrospective on the...
HarperCollins drops David Walliams
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
British writer and actor David Walliams, author of The World’s Worst series of children’s books, has been dropped by HarperCollins after allegations of inappropriate behaviour toward women, reported the Guardian....
Goodreads hosting allegedly fraudulent reviews
Monday, 12 January 2026
Some books listed on review site Goodreads have been reviewed before advance copies were sent to readers, reported the Bookseller. Authors Jo Furniss, Milly Johnson, Kathryn Whitfield and Leonie Mack...
Public Lending Rights International
Thursday, 11 December 2025
In international news, Public Lending Rights International (PLRI) has been announced as a “formal international association” of organisations managing or distributing public lending rights payments to authors, illustrators, translators and...
BookTokers debate the value of negative reviews
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
In the UK, the Bookseller has canvassed opinion among popular BookTok creators about the value and desirability of posting negative reviews. Critical reviews on the popular TikTok subcommunity can meet...
AI wariness prevails in UK and Europe
Monday, 8 December 2025
UK bookselling chain Waterstones would stock books created by generative AI if customers wanted them and they were clearly labelled, reported the Bookseller. But it is “something that we would...
British prize announcements: Wodehouse, Heaney and First Chapter
Thursday, 4 December 2025
In a busy literary week in the UK, three more prizes have been presented, on top of this year’s £50,000 (A$100,570) Wolfson History Prize, which went to Hannah Durkin’s Survivors:...
2025 Wolfson History Prize goes to Durkin’s “Survivors”
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
In the UK, historian Hannah Durkin has won the £50,000 (A$100,570) Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (William Collins), reported the Bookseller. The...
UK Translation Prizes shortlists announced
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In the UK, the Society of Authors has released shortlists for its 2025 Translation Prizes, which recognise outstanding translations of prose, poetry and nonfiction from any language. Among the finalists...
Waterstones names 2025 books of the year
Monday, 1 December 2025
In the UK, the Waterstones bookselling group has named Lucy Steeds’s The Artist (John Murray) as its Book of the Year, with Mikey Please’s The Café at the Edge of...
IPA expands membership, firms up 2026 congress
Thursday, 27 November 2025
The International Publishing Association this week named two provisional new national members, released the results of its online elections, and confirmed details of the 2026 International Publishers Congress, to take...
British MPs launch reading inquiry
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
In the UK, parliament’s education committee has launched an inquiry into how reading can be nurtured following the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure, reported the Bookseller....
2025 National Book Awards announced
Monday, 24 November 2025
In the US, the National Book Foundation (NBF) has announced the five winners of this year’s National Book Awards. The winners are: Fiction The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and...
Shanghai Children’s Book Fair probes a changing market
Thursday, 20 November 2025
The 12th China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) finished its three-day run at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre on 16 November. Co-organised by Ronbo BolognaFiere Shanghai,...
PRH’s owner posts small gains in third quarter
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) was among the 4 operating groups contributing to a 0.8% revenue increase in revenue for parent company German-owned Bertelsmann over the first 9 months of 2025,...
UK report: In children’s reading, print is vital but not enough
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
In the UK, the National Literacy Trust (NLT) has highlighted an “urgent need to broaden our understanding of literacy in the digital age” in a new paper, reported the Bookseller yesterday....
Bertelsmann appoints Coesfeld as chair and CEO for 2027
Monday, 17 November 2025
In Germany, Thomas Coesfeld has been appointed as the future chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, by the company’s supervisory board. Current chair...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation releases 2025 shortlist
Thursday, 13 November 2025
The judges of the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation have announced a shortlist of six books, reported BookBrunch. The shortlisted books are: And the Walls Became the World All...
