Tuesday, 25 June 2013
French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has revealed that the French Government plans to introduce a law to prevent Amazon from offering both discounts and free delivery for books in France, reports Reuters....

Monday, 24 June 2013
In the US, a sales rep has been charged with stealing US$2.8 million (A$2.58 million) worth of textbooks from his former employer, the US arm of John Wiley & Sons,...

Monday, 24 June 2013
UK-based publishers have topped the 2012 ‘Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry’, an annual survey of publisher revenues, compiled on behalf of Livres Hebdo, Buchreport , the Bookseller and Publishers...

Friday, 21 June 2013
Testimonies have concluded in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) ebook pricing trial against Apple, which began on 3 June, with Judge Denise Cote commenting that the issues over the...

Thursday, 20 June 2013
In France, the Paris Commercial Court has ordered the Virgin Megastore retail chain into liquidation, reports the Bookseller. The order comes a week after the court rejected two final partial...

Thursday, 20 June 2013
In the UK, Sally Gardner has won the Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books) and Levi Pinfold has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Black Dog (Templar Publishing)....

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
In the US, Penguin has launched a new book discoverability platform called First to Read, reports Publishers Weekly. The platform allows users to access digital proofs of forthcoming books, months before the...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new digital rights management (DRM) system called SiDiM, which aims to prevent ebook piracy by altering the text of an ebook, reports PaidContent. Using SiDiM,...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his second novel The Garden of Evening Mists (Canongate). His win marks the first...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Pottermore, the website designed for J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series, will unveil a new design to broaden its user base and publishing business, reports the Bookseller. The company has also launched an offshoot...

Monday, 17 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize have been announced. The winner of the international prize was Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems by Fady Joudah...

Friday, 14 June 2013
The Book Depository’s pre-tax profit has surged since it was acquired by Amazon in 2011, reports the Bookseller. In its first financial statement released since the acquisition, the Book Depository...

Friday, 14 June 2013
UK publisher Rebellion has launched the children’s imprint Ravenstone at Book Expo America (BEA), along with the imprint’s first book, reports Publishers Weekly. Rebellion is best known for publishing books featuring the...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
In the US, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation has created the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, with a US$50,000 (A$52,800) prize to be awarded for the first time in February 2014. A...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Amazon-owned audiobooks provider Audible is ending its Author Services program, which pays authors a US$1 ‘honoraria’ for every audiobook sold through Audible.com, Audible.co.uk and iTunes, reports paidContent. Authors have been sent...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
In Russia, the national government has announced plans to invest US$100 million (A$105 million) in the country’s book industry over the next five years, reports Publishing Perspectives. The new funding...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Bowker Market Research has found that self-published titles accounted for more than 20% of crime, science fiction, romance and humour ebooks sold in the UK in 2012, reported the Guardian....

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
In the UK, Random House has launched a consumer insight website to collect information from readers on book discovery and consumption, reports the Bookseller. Readers will be invited to sign...

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Kim McArthur, owner of the independent Canadian publisher McArthur & Company, has announced that she is closing the business. According to Publishers Weekly, the company has been experiencing financial difficulties...

Friday, 7 June 2013
City of Bohane by Irish author Kevin Barry (Vintage) has won this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (approximately A$163,000). Barry’s novel, a futuristic tale set in Ireland, was selected from...

Friday, 7 June 2013
In the UK, Salt Publishing has announced that it will no longer publish single-author poetry collections and will instead focus on poetry anthologies, as well as its fiction and nonfiction...

Thursday, 6 June 2013
French booksellers will have access to an additional €9 million (A$12.4 million) in funds this year, thanks to new funding pledged by the French Government and French publishers, reports the Bookseller....

Thursday, 6 June 2013
In the UK, 50% of first-week sales for Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (Bloomsbury) were for ebooks, with 10,000 copies sold in each format, reports the Bookseller. Bloomsbury UK...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
A young adult book-discovery platform called Evoke has won the inaugural Publishing Hackathon, a software development contest held in New York in May, reports DigitalBookWorld. The Evoke team, which includes Lisa Maione, Jason Pearson...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
In the UK, children’s author Malorie Blackman has been announced as the new Waterstones Children’s Laureate, reports the Bookseller. Blackman was presented with the Children’s Laureate medal and a cheque...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
In the UK, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has announced that Baileys will be its new major sponsor. From next year, the prize will be...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) ebook pricing trial against Apple kicked off on 3 June and is expected to last for three weeks, reports paidContent. As previously reported by...

Monday, 3 June 2013
Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney is planning to open a bookstore in his home town of Plainville, New England, reports Publishers Weekly. Kinney has purchased a disused...

Monday, 3 June 2013
Fernhust Books has acquired the print and digital assets for 180 titles from John Wiley & Sons’ nautical consumer publishing program Wiley Nautical, Wiley has announced in a statement. Classic titles...