Friday, 4 October 2013
Publishing consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart has released his latest report into global ebook trends, ‘Global eBook: A Report on Market Trends and Developments’, which estimates ebook penetration by country using data from previously published reports. According...

Thursday, 3 October 2013
In the UK, Bloomsbury’s online writers’ resource Writers & Artists has launched selfpubcompare.com, a free self-publishing provider comparison website. Writers can complete a questionnaire on the website to find self-publishing providers that offer services most...

Thursday, 3 October 2013
In the US, not-for-profit book distribution organisation First Book has launched a new ‘global marketplace’ project, reports Publishers Weekly. First Book, which currently provides books and resources for schools and...

Thursday, 3 October 2013
In the US, document-sharing and ebook sales platform Scribd is launching an ebook subscription service that offers unlimited ebooks for US$8.99 (A$9.60) a month, reports DigitalBookWorld. HarperCollins has partnered with...

Wednesday, 2 October 2013
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are Harvest (Jim Crace, Picador), Red or Dead (David Peace, Faber), Exodus (Lars Iyer,...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Empires of the Dead (David Crane, William Collins), The Return...

Monday, 30 September 2013
In the UK, Walker Books is set to launch a media imprint, reports the Bookseller. The imprint, which launches in 2014, will be called Walker Entertainment in the UK and...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Online bookseller Wordery, a partnership between book wholesaler Bertrams and former Book Depository IT director Will Jones, has launched its direct-to-consumer website, reports the Bookseller. Wordery has been trading as...

Friday, 27 September 2013
In the US, the winners of this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards have been announced. Adam Johnson has won the fiction prize for The Orphan Master’s Son (Black Swan),...

Thursday, 26 September 2013
In the UK, educational publisher Nelson Thornes will be integrated into Oxford University Press (OUP) from 2014, with job losses expected among the publisher’s 190 staff, reports the Bookseller. Nelson Thornes will...

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...