Tuesday, 20 March 2012
In the US, Orion has restructured its trade and paperback divisions, replacing the divisions with Orion Fiction, which includes more than half of its frontlist titles and nearly all of...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Voters in Switzerland have rejected a referendum that would have re-introduced fixed book prices in the country, reports Swissinfo.ch. The referendum, which was supported by approximately 42% of voters, would...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Encyclopedia Britannica announced this month that it will cease publishing its 32-volume print edition to focus on digital products, reports the Bookseller. A spokesperson for the well-known company, which first...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Results from a new study conducted by BML Bowker show that university students in the UK are still relying on printed resource materials for their studies. The results of the...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin has become the first woman, and the first writer from South Korea, to win the Man Asian Literary Prize. Kyung-sook Shin won the 2011 prize,...

Monday, 19 March 2012
Speaking at the Financial Times' Digital Media Conference in London last week, Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis said that Kobo sees 'tablets as for casual readers'. Serbinis said that customers who...

Monday, 19 March 2012
Ebook self-publishing site Smashwords has announced that PayPal is finalising new policies regarding content, following objections to its decision in February to stop processing sales of erotica books or any...

Thursday, 15 March 2012
In the US, the Department of Justice has warned Apple and five publishers that it 'plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books', reports...

Thursday, 15 March 2012
The French Government has passed a law to digitise and sell half a million books that are currently out-of-print, reports Paid Content. The project, which is likened to the Google...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
In the UK, Constable & Robinson and Nosy Crow have won multiple categories at this year's Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Independent Publishing Awards. Constable & Robinson was named IPG Independent...