Friday, 1 February 2013
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has ‘significantly reduced its orders from Simon & Schuster’ following a dispute over terms, reports Publishers Weekly. According to Publishers Weekly, the main reason...

Friday, 1 February 2013
A new research centre at Glasgow University has been established to examine ‘the changing nature of copyright and the need for new business models in the digital age’, reports the...

Thursday, 31 January 2013
HarperCollins Worldwide is launching an education publishing division within HarperCollins India, called Collins India, which will be its ‘largest ever investment in international education publishing’, reports the Bookseller. Collins India hopes to provide a...

Thursday, 31 January 2013
In the US, Amazon has announced its full-year results, revealing that it lost $39 million net (A$37.3 million) in 2012, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, sales increased 27%...

Wednesday, 30 January 2013
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble could close one third of its stores in the next 10 years, reports the Wall Street Journal. Barnes & Noble chief executive Mitchell Klipper...

Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Bonnier will launch a new nonfiction imprint in the UK this year called Red Lemon Press, reports the Bookseller. Bonnier will publish all new nonfiction titles under the Red Lemon Press...

Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Indian author Jeet Thayil has won the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his book Narcopolis (Faber). Narcopolis, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, was selected...

Friday, 25 January 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize have been announced. In the running for this year’s prize, worth £60,000 (approximately A$90,000) are UR Ananthamurthy (India), Aharon Appelfeld (Israel),...

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...