Thursday, 26 September 2013
In the US, two authors are among the recipients of this year’s ‘genius grants’ awarded by the MacArthur Foundation. Karen Russell, a fiction author, and Donald Antrim, a nonfiction and fiction...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
In the UK, British poet Alice Oswald has won the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing for her poetry book Memorial (Faber). Oswald wins a cash prize of £25,000 (approximately A$42,600) and...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
UK booksellers involved in the ‘Books Are My Bag’ (BAMB) campaign launch on 14 September have recorded an increase in sales, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at the Booksellers Association Conference, Penguin Random...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
In the UK, five women writers have been shortlisted for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award. The shortlisted writers and their short stories are: Lionel Shriver for Prepositions; Lisa...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has launched an annual award for independently published children’s book writers and illustrators, called the Spark Award. The award, which has...

Monday, 23 September 2013
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Monday, 23 September 2013
In the US, Random House has teamed up with Flipboard to create custom digital magazines for Margaret Atwood and George R R Martin, reports Publishers Weekly. Flipboard is a social...

Monday, 23 September 2013
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced a new affiliate program with Biblio.com, an independent online bookstore that specialises in used and rare books, reports Publishers Weekly. Participating ABA members...

Friday, 20 September 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central...

Friday, 20 September 2013
In the US, the National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Fiction and Nonfiction categories of this year’s National Book Awards. The Fiction category features 10 titles including:...

Friday, 20 September 2013
In India, Penguin Random House is seeking approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to acquire a 45% share in Penguin India from local publisher Ananda Publishers, reports the Hindu Business...

Thursday, 19 September 2013
In the US, Penguin Random House has announced the creation of a management team to combine the two publishers’ fulfilment operations, reports Publishers Weekly. Penguin Random House US president and COO Madeline...

Thursday, 19 September 2013
In the US, the Libiro ebookstore for self-published and small-press titles has been launched by self-published author Ben Galley and designer Teague Fullick, reports Forbes. The website provides an alternative to...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Bestselling author James Patterson has increased his ongoing support of the book industry by pledging US$1 million (A$1.07 million) to US independent bookstores, reports the LA Times. Patterson, who made headlines earlier this...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
In the US, the National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Young People’s Literature and Poetry categories of this year’s National Book Awards. Ten titles are in the...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Orion has acquired the rights to publish A Suitable Girl, the sequel to Vikram Seth’s bestselling A Suitable Boy, after it was originally signed to Penguin, reports the Bookseller. The announcement...

Monday, 16 September 2013
Books by US writers will be eligible for the Man Booker Prize for the first time in 2014, reports the Sunday Times. The prize, established in 1968 and worth £50,000 (A$85,000),...

Friday, 13 September 2013
Warner Bros has announced that it will produce a series of films based on J K Rowling’s 2001 book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Bloomsbury), which follows the adventures of...

Thursday, 12 September 2013
A federal judge in California has sided with cyclist Lance Armstrong and publishers Random House US and Penguin Group US in a lawsuit that alleged that Armstrong’s denials about using performance-enhancing drugs in his...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
The category winners of this year’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards have been announced. Ewan Morrison won the Fiction Award for Close Your Eyes (Jonathan Cape) and Gavin Francis won the Nonfiction...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Kobo will enter the Philippines ereading market this month, with a number of its ereading devices to be available from bookselling chain National Book Store from 20 September. Kobo said in a...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
In the US, the six winners of the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards have been announced. The awards, which are each worth US$30,000 (A$32,499), are presented to women who...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
In the UK, authors Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson have joined Random House’s Shakespeare publishing project, reports the Bookseller. As part of the ‘Hogarth Shakespeare’ project, Atwood and Jacobson will...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Chinese readers will have access to foreign-language online journals and ebooks via the CNP eReading platform, which has been launched by UK company Publishing Technology and China National Publications Import and Export (Group)...

Monday, 9 September 2013
In the US, the judge in Apple’s ebook pricing case has signed a final order for injunctive relief, reports Publishers Weekly. The parties in the case last week submitted a ‘final, scaled-back...

Monday, 9 September 2013
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Small Wars, Far Away Places (Michael Burleigh, Macmillan) Empires of...

Friday, 6 September 2013
In the US, independent publisher Sourcebooks has partnered with online writing platform Wattpad to publish some of its popular YA titles, reports Publishers Weekly. The partnership will see Sourcebooks edit,...

Friday, 6 September 2013
In the US, the National Book Foundation will present the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to E L Doctorow and the 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary...