Monday, 19 August 2013
In the US, the owners of more than 23 million consumer accounts have been notified that they are eligible to receive payments from the settlements reached by publishers in their...

Friday, 16 August 2013
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. The shortlisted titles...

Friday, 16 August 2013
PEN America has announced the winners and runners-up for the 2013 PEN Literary Awards. A Naked Singularity (Sergio De La Pava, MacLehose Press) has won the PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize,...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
British novelist Ned Beauman has won the 2012 Encore Award for his second novel The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre), reports the Bookseller. Beauman’s novel, which was longlisted for the 2012 Man...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
In the US, the Wattpad online writing community has launched Wattpad Fan Funding—a crowdfunding service for self-publishing, reports Publishers Weekly. The service allows Wattpad members to pledge financial support to writing projects...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
In the US, Overstock.com appears to have retreated from its recent price war with Amazon, prompting Amazon to end its deep discounting of titles that began in response to the Overstock discounts, reports Publishers Weekly....

Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Judge Denise Cote has denied Apple’s request for a stay in proceedings in its ongoing legal battle with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over ebook pricing, reports Publishers Weekly....

Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Fourteen business books have been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$50,700) Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, presented annually for the book that has ‘the most...

Monday, 12 August 2013
In the UK, the shortlist for the Guardian children’s fiction prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin); Liar & Spy (Rebecca Stead,...

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...