Monday, 12 August 2013
In the US, online retailers led by Amazon earned 44% of the money spent on books in 2012, up from 39% in 2011 when Borders was still in operation, according to...

Monday, 12 August 2013
In another eventful week in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) ongoing ebook pricing case against Apple, a number of the parties have made submissions to the court in relation to the DOJ’s...

Friday, 9 August 2013
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has filed preliminary documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in its plans for an initial public offering (IPO) of up to...

Friday, 9 August 2013
The Japan-headquartered Kinokuniya bookstore chain is planning to launch online stores in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other Asian countries in 2014 ahead of anticipated launches in the region by Amazon,...

Thursday, 8 August 2013
The Ukraine government will invest 500 million hrynia (approximately A$68.5 million) in the country’s bookselling and publishing industry over the next four years in a bid to address declining levels...

Thursday, 8 August 2013
HarperCollins has acquired world English language rights to two new books from crime writer Patricia Cornwell. The author was previously published by Penguin in the US and Little, Brown in...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
The finalists have been announced for the CHF50,000 (A$60,150) Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, a Swiss literary prize open to any work of fiction or nonfiction published anywhere in the world in any...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Following the widely reported news that Amazon founder and owner Jeff Bezos has purchased the Washington Post, speculation has begun about what the relationship between the internet retailer and high-profile...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
In the US, Pearson has announced ‘a strategic investment and commercial partnership’ with Voxy, an English-language education platform. Pearson said in a statement that it is now a minority shareholder...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
In the US, Apple has responded to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposal for ‘injunctive relief’ against the company in its ebook pricing case, labelling the proposal ‘a draconian and...

Monday, 5 August 2013
In the UK, US author Sylvia Day has topped the Bookseller’s first monthly ebook bestseller chart. Day’s ebook Entwined with You (Penguin) sold 201,053 copies in the UK in June, making...

Monday, 5 August 2013
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has released a proposal for ‘injunctive relief’ against Apple following a US court’s findings that Apple conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices, reports Publishers...

Friday, 2 August 2013
In the US, Hachette Book Group president and chief operating officer Ken Michaels will leave his position to join Macmillan Science and Education in the newly created role of global chief...

Thursday, 1 August 2013
J K Rowling will donate worldwide publishing royalties from The Cuckoo’s Calling (Hachette) to The Soldier’s Charity for a period of three years, reports the Bookseller. Russells, the legal firm...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
A number of US bookselling associations have written to President Barack Obama ahead of his planned visit to an Amazon warehouse in Tennessee later this week, expressing concerns about the...

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
In the UK, the Bookseller will publish monthly ebook rankings with sales figures from major UK publishers from next month. This will be the first time that regular ebook sales...

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
In the UK, some independent publishers are increasingly focussing on export sales to compensate for lower sales in a tougher UK market, reports the Bookseller. Alma Books publisher and managing...

Thursday, 25 July 2013
Social reading and reviewing service Goodreads has announced that it has reached 20 million members, doubling its membership since August last year. Since Goodreads launched in 2007, more than 620...

Thursday, 25 July 2013
In France, mobile and interactive media group Digital Virgo has acquired VirginMega, the online retail subsidiary of the defunct Virgin Megastore group, reports the Bookseller. Founded in France in 1988 by Richard...

Thursday, 25 July 2013
Novelist Jane Austen will be the next person to appear on the UK’s £10 banknote, reports the BBC. A portrait of Austen, along with a quote from Pride and Prejudice (‘I...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
In the US, the percentage of higher education students reporting that they had downloaded course material illegally has risen from 20% in 2010 to 34% in 2013, according to the...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Penguin will relaunch Book Country, an online community for genre fiction writers, in July, reports the Bookseller. The revamped website, which was first established in 2011, will include a broader range...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Fifteen positions will be made redundant at Lonely Planet’s London office as part of the company-wide restructure announced last week, reports the Bookseller. A Lonely Planet spokesperson told the Bookseller...

Monday, 22 July 2013
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has presented a plan to G20 nations to patch outdated tax laws, which can easily be exploited by global corporations to artificially...

Monday, 22 July 2013
In the US, the winners of the 2013 Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards have been announced. Among the winners are Simone St. James’ The Haunting of Maddy Clare...