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...

Friday, 31 May 2013
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has been given permission by the Canadian government to expand its publishing operations into Canada, reports Publishers Weekly. Previously the publisher was only allowed to distribute...

Thursday, 30 May 2013
In the US, the National Books Critic Circle (NBCC) has added a new award category for debut books. The John Leonard Award, named after the founding member of the NBCC and...

Thursday, 30 May 2013
In the US, HarperCollins has launched a new program that allows authors and the publisher’s marketing and publicity teams to share digital proofs of forthcoming books, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
The Dutch Booksellers Association has launched an online self-assessment tool to help booksellers improve their businesses, reports the Bookseller. The ‘Dutch Booksellers Barometer’, which has been developed by the association’s...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
In the US, Bowker is continuing to expand its My Identifiers platform with a new partnership with Digi-Rights. An online tool for small publishers and self-publishers to manage their rights...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
In the UK, the Guardian has announced the longlist for its 2013 children’s fiction prize. The longlisted titles are: The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (David Almond, illus by Oliver...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The inaugural China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) will be held at the Shanghai Mart Exhibition Centre on 7-10 November, reports Publishers Weekly. With two days dedicated to the trade...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The board of News Corporation, the parent company of HarperCollins, has approved the decision to split the organisation into two separately traded companies, reports the Bookseller. The split, effective from...

Monday, 27 May 2013
Six finalists have been chosen from the inaugural Publishing Hackathon, held in New York on 18-19 May. Thirty teams were given 36 hours to come up with an idea for a book discovery...

Monday, 27 May 2013
In the US, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has awarded Katherine Boo this year’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, worth US$15,000 (A$15,298). Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful...

Friday, 24 May 2013
The Reading Room, a book-focussed social media website, will begin selling print books online in June, following its introduction of ebook sales earlier this year, reports Digital Book World. The...

Thursday, 23 May 2013
In the US, Penguin will not participate as a defendant in the Department of Justice’s long-awaited ebook pricing trial after reaching a settlement in the ebook pricing case with US...

Thursday, 23 May 2013
US author Lydia Davis has won the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. Announcing Davis as the fifth winner of the Man Booker International Prize, the committee praised Davis’ ‘inventive, carefully-crafted...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
In the US, independent children’s publisher Barefoot Books has announced it will no longer sell books through Amazon, reports Digital Book World. The publisher said in a statement that it...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is restructuring its bookshop management positions to put more emphasis on shop-floor bookselling, reports the Bookseller. Managing director James Daunt has sent an email informing staff...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
In the US, Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has launched SelfPublishedAuthor.com, a website designed to help authors self-publish their work. The website, which says its aim is to ‘guide independent authors...

Monday, 20 May 2013
In the US, another book discovery platform, BookLikes, has been launched. The platform allows users to create a personal webpage complete with blog, virtual bookshelf and reading timeline, and to...

Monday, 20 May 2013
European booksellers have urged the European Commission to act over big retailers’ use of closed ebook ‘ecosystems’, reports the Bookseller. At the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) conference held...