Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Philip Jones has been appointed editor of UK trade publication the Bookseller, replacing editor-in-chief Neill Denny. Denny, who has been in the role of editor-in-chief since 2004, said he was...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Random House has announced it is partnering with the television production and distribution company FremantleMedia to ‘develop scripted programming for the US and international markets based on the fiction and...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced that Jose Ramos-Horta will feature in the main program of the festival. Ramos-Horta is a founder of the Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
In the US, the Anderson family, which controls approximately 53% of the stock of chain bookseller Books-A-Million, has withdrawn an offer it made to acquire all the shares in the...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the US, total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to estimates released Wednesday by BookStats, the annual industry sales survey coordinated by the Association of...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Italian publisher RCS Libri has launched a new digital-first imprint which will publish books free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection, reports the Bookseller. The publisher will release Italian and English...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the UK, Bloomsbury has completed its purchase of creative publisher Applied Visual Arts Publishing (AVA) for close to £1.7 million (A$2.57 million), reports the Bookseller. AVA, which was established...

Monday, 23 July 2012
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has launched a new cloud-based ereading platform called Nook for Web, reports Publishers Weekly. The new platform will allow Barnes & Noble customers to...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The latest annual report of the Spanish Publishers Guild has highlighted the tough times currently facing the Spanish book market, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to the report, Spain’s book industry...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it has finalised its acquisition of US-based publisher Thomas Nelson. HarperCollins first announced its intention to acquire the publisher, which produces Christian books, videos and digital...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Granta has announced the 20 writers who will appear in its ‘The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists’ issue. This is the first time the literary magazine has devoted an issue...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Irish bookselling chain Eason has revealed that it plans to launch a branded ereader later this year, reports the Bookseller. The announcement was made at the launch of the chain's revamped store...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Helen McAleer has been promoted to the new positions of chief global development officer for Walker Books and managing director of Walker Productions. McAleer, who joined Walker Books as UK...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The Nigerian city of Port Harcourt was announced as World Book Capital 2014 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 5 July. Port Harcourt was selected...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has announced plans to expand its digital business by opening Nook digital bookstores in 10 countries within 12 months. In a filing with the...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Kobo will launch a localised ereader and website in Japan on 19 July. CEO Mike Serbinis travelled to Japan last week to sell the product to the Japanese market. A...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
European Commission (EC) vice-president Neelie Kroes has backed a call by European publishing chiefs for the rate of value-added tax (VAT) on ebooks to be reduced. Publishing chiefs representing Penguin,...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
In the UK, academic publisher Sage is selling more than 2500 titles from its own ebookstore, reports the Bookseller. The store, which officially launched in June, is part of the...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has emerged from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after receiving court approval for its restructuring plan last month, reports Publishers Weekly. As previously reported by...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
In the US, federal judge Denise Cote has set 3 June, 2013, as the start date for the Department of Justice (DOJ) anti-trust case against Apple, Penguin and Macmillan, reports...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Book Marketing Society (BMS), an organisation that seeks to promote marketing and marketers within the publishing industry in the UK, has revealed its new website bookmarketingsociety.co.uk. BMS executive director Jo Henry...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the inaugural Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction at its 2012 conference, held in California this month. The Forgotten...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Ingram Content Group has announced that Shawn Morin has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer and will be ‘in charge of managing the company’s commercial activities, systems,...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
New Zealand authors Hamish Clayton and Tina Makereti will take up new writing residencies offered by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt in September, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Clayton and Makereti...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Irish author Sebastian Barry has won the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for On Canaan’s Side (Faber). The Walter Scott Prize is worth £25,000 and is presented during...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Nine companies have made applications to administer a new internet domain ending in .book. Applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLD) were announced in London on what was called ‘Reveal...