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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has presented a plan to G20 nations to patch outdated tax laws, which can easily be exploited by global corporations to artificially...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

Thursday, 18 July 2013
In the US, educational publishers Pearson and Elsevier have signed agreements with software platform Inkling to create ‘next generation’ digital education content, reports Publishers Weekly. Inkling specialises in creating multimedia...

Thursday, 18 July 2013
Simon & Schuster has announced a number of international appointments, including the promotion of Ian Chapman to the position of CEO and publisher for S&S UK and International, reports the...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
HarperCollins has partnered with US technology company Autography to use its digital book-signing technology. The patent-pending technology, which can be used on a wide variety of ereading devices, inserts a...

Monday, 15 July 2013
In the US, Apple and Amazon have ended their legal dispute over the rights to use the name ‘app store’, leaving both companies free to use the title, reports CNET....

Friday, 12 July 2013
In the US, book distributor and library supplier Baker & Taylor has entered into a ‘strategic partnership’ with publishing services company Bookmasters, which has been acquired by Baker & Taylor’s...

Friday, 12 July 2013
Amazon has been granted a US patent for supplementary content attached to ebooks, reports Wired, which compares the patent to ‘DVD extras’. The patent ‘Customized Electronic Book with Supplemental Content’, which...

Thursday, 11 July 2013
In a new series called ‘Flights of the Imagination’, the Telegraph in the UK has asked a number of authors to write ‘literary tours of the places they know best’....

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
In the US, Amazon has added a new imprint for comic books and graphic novels called Jet City Comics, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint will feature adaptations of comics, short stories...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Indian author Vikram Seth has been asked to return a US$1.7 million (approximately A$1.9 million) advance for the sequel to his bestselling novel A Suitable Boy (Penguin) after failing to...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
In the US, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch has resigned, effective immediately, and will no longer sit on the board of directors, reports DigitalBookWorld. During Lynch’s three years as CEO the company’s Nook ebook and ereader...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
In the UK, bookselling chain WH Smith is trialling a new model of franchising with independent newsagents, reports the Telegraph. The new arrangements are being tested at a store in...

Monday, 8 July 2013
Almost half of Hachette UK’s trade sales are made up of online sales of print books and ebooks, with ebooks representing over 25% of the publisher’s trade sales in 2013...

Friday, 5 July 2013
Indonesia has been selected as the Guest of Honour country for the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair, following Brazil in 2013 and Finland in 2014. In a statement, the Frankfurt Book...

Thursday, 4 July 2013
In the US, educational publisher Cengage Learning has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the equivalent of administration in Australia. The company said in a statement on 2 July that it...

Thursday, 4 July 2013
In the UK, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, with a prize of €25,000 (A$35,700), has been awarded to David Constantine for Tea at the Midland and Other Stories,...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
In the UK, Faber has launched an online store with the website The Book People, reports the Bookseller. The store, called FaberShop, sells directly to customers, and sits alongside other...