Thursday, 24 January 2013
London university Goldsmiths has launched a new £10,000 (approximately A$15,000) prize for works of fiction that ‘open up new possibilities for the novel form’, reports the Bookseller. The annual Goldsmiths Prize...

Thursday, 24 January 2013
Restructuring company Hilco has taken ‘effective control’ of music retailer HMV UK after purchasing the company’s debt, reports the Bookseller. The chain, which operates 239 stores in the UK and...

Wednesday, 23 January 2013
In the US, Random House has announced a new Facebook app that will offer book recommendations, reports Publishers Weekly. The app, named BookScout, is powered by Facebook’s ‘Like’ feature and...

Wednesday, 23 January 2013
UK-based military history publisher Osprey Publishing is launching a new imprint called Osprey Adventures which explores ‘the blurred lines where fact and fiction meet’, reports the Bookseller. The first series,...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Amazon is expanding its children’s publishing division with two new imprints, reports paidContent. Two Lions is aimed at younger readers, and will include picture books, chapter books and middle-grand fiction,...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013
In the UK, WH Smith will open two stores under its dedicated children’s brand Zoodle in Manchester Airport next month, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the UK...

Monday, 21 January 2013
In the UK, ebook sales at the top trade publishers doubled in 2012, putting the overall book market ‘back in the black’, reports the Bookseller. Six of the largest UK...

Monday, 21 January 2013
A new company called Total Boox (pronounced total books) presented its ‘pay as you read approach’ to selling ebooks at the Digital Book World conference in the US last week,...

Friday, 18 January 2013
Kobo has announced its results for 2012, reporting an increase in sales of both ereaders and ebooks. In a statement, Kobo reported that it doubled device sales in 2012, going...

Friday, 18 January 2013
Romance publisher Harlequin is launching its Carina Press digital-only imprint in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The imprint is looking to sign authors from the UK and Ireland, as well...

Thursday, 17 January 2013
American author Sharon Olds has won the 2012 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry for Stag’s Leap (Random House), reports the Guardian. Judges Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Longley and David...

Wednesday, 16 January 2013
In the US, the National Book Foundation will select a longlist of 10 titles in each of the categories for the 2013 National Book Awards, reports Publishers Weekly. This is...

Wednesday, 16 January 2013
In the UK, music retailer HMV has gone into administration, placing more than 4000 jobs at risk, reports the Bookseller. The chain, which operates 239 stores in the UK and...

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
In the US, unit sales for independent bookstores in 2012 were up eight percent compared to 2011, reports Shelf Awareness. The results are based on sales at 500 independent bookstores...

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
The 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists have been announced in the US. The finalists in the fiction category are: Laurent Binet’s HHhH (Random House), Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long...

Monday, 14 January 2013
In the US, Random House Publishing Group (RHPG) has reorganised the way it publishes trade paperbacks, with individual publishers and imprints now responsible for publishing all formats of their titles,...

Monday, 14 January 2013
In the UK, McDonald’s has launched a new children’s book campaign through its Happy Meal products, which is designed to distribute ‘more than 15 million books by the end of...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
In the UK, new research has found that the number of high-street bookshops in Britain halved between 2005 and 2012, reports the Telegraph. According to the research, conducted by Experian,...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Apple will begin selling Japanese-language ebooks this month, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to reports from Japan, Apple will offer approximately 80,000 titles from a range of publishers, including Kadokawa, Shogakukan...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
In the UK, sales of print books reached a three-year high in the week before Christmas, reports the Bookseller. According to data from Nielsen BookScan, £75.4 million (approximately A$115.2 million)...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Pearson has invested US$89.5 million (approximately A$85 million) in US bookseller Barnes & Noble’s ebook device and retail brand Nook Media ‘in order to gain favourable distribution for its education...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
In the UK, a sponsor has been found for the £40,000 (A$61,241) Literature Prize, which was announced in 2011 by Aitken Alexander managing director and agent Andrew Kidd, reports the Bookseller....

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
South Korean literature will be the focus of the 2014 London Book Fair (LBF), with the country selected for the fair’s Market Focus program, reports the Bookseller. The Market Focus...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Following the news earlier this month that ebook vendors are now adopting new ebook pricing terms from Hachette in the US, Publishers Weekly reports that Simon & Schuster has also...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Riverdale Avenue Books (RAB), a new US ebook and audiobook publisher, will launch on 17 December with two nonfiction titles, reports Publishers Weekly. Literary agent and publisher Lori Perkins and...

Friday, 7 December 2012
London’s Foyles bookshop has partnered with the Bookseller to invite customers and industry experts to help design a ‘bookshop of the future’ for the 21st century. Located at 113-119 Charing...