Key hearing for publishers, Internet Archive case due to start
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
In the US, a federal judge was due to hear cross motions for summary judgement in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Internet Archive’s program to scan and lend...
Vivendi in negotiations to sell Editis
Thursday, 16 March 2023
French media company Vivendi is in exclusive negotiations for the 100% takeover of its subsidiary Editis—France’s second largest publisher—by International Media Invest (IMI), reports the Bookseller. Last year, Vivendi said...
International Booker 2023 longlist announced
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The longlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,950), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Ninth Building (Zou Jingzhi, trans by Jeremy Tiang, Open Letter) A System...
McCann, Cushley win Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
In the UK, writer Jackie McCann and illustrator Aaron Cushley have won the £10,000 (A$18,280) Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for If the World Were 100 People (Red Shed), reports...
Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners shortlist announced
Friday, 10 March 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award—being held to celebrate the prize’s 25th anniversary—has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The annual award, originally known...
Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins US offer voluntary redundancy packages
Thursday, 9 March 2023
In the US, Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins US are both offering voluntary redundancy packages to select employees, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). A Hachette Book Group representative told PW the...
Anderson wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
US author Laurie Halse Anderson has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, worth five million SEK (A$707,300), reports the Bookseller. Judges praised Halse Anderson’s ‘richly expressive novels for young people’...
Women’s Prize 2023 longlist announced
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
The longlist for the 2023 International Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. The 16 titles longlisted for the award are: Black Butterflies (Priscilla Morris, Duckworth Books) Children of Paradise...
PRH US re-organises divisions, personnel
Thursday, 2 March 2023
In the US, Penguin Random House has undergone a company-wide reorganisation, reports Publishers Weekly. As well as a number of personnel changes among executives, the Random House adult publishing division...
BA survey reveals bookselling demographics
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
In the UK, findings from the Booksellers Association’s (BA) inaugural Workforce Diversity Survey have revealed the demographics of the bookselling workforce, reports the Bookseller. The anonymous online survey of 185...
US publishing sales down 6.4%: AAP
Monday, 27 February 2023
US publishers’ sales fell 6.4% in 2022, according to the latest data from the Association of American Publisher’s StatShot program, reports Publishers Weekly. Sales totalled US$12.6 billion (A$18.7b) from the 1372 publishers...
Bookshop.org to sell ebooks, publish first book
Friday, 24 February 2023
In the US, Bookshop.org will start selling ebooks by the end of the year, and is publishing its first print book in October, reports Publishers Weekly. The ebook program will...
Revenue up, profit down at Bonnier
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Swedish publisher Bonnier Books’s revenue grew 7% to SEK7.4 billion (A$1b) in 2022, while earnings fell 39% to SEK385 million (A$54.3m), reports the Bookseller. The drop in earnings was attributed...
Acquisitions help boost Lagardère Publishing sales
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Hachette parent company Lagardère Publishing’s revenue grew 5.8% in 2022 to €2.75 billion (A$4.2b), though earnings fell 14% to €302 million (A$467m), reports Publishers Weekly. The revenue growth was attributed...
US online sales up 5.6%
Monday, 20 February 2023
In the US, a report from Bookstat found online sales of print books, ebooks and audiobooks grew 5.6% to US$12.13 billion (A$17.7b) in 2022, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookstat covers an...
US bookstore sales rise 6%
Friday, 17 February 2023
In the US, bookstore sales rose an estimated 6.2% last year over 2021 according to preliminary estimates from the US Census Bureau, reports Publishers Weekly. According to US Census Bureau...
Paramount reportedly exploring sale of S&S
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) parent company Paramount is working with a financial adviser to explore a sale of the publisher, reports Reuters. Reuters reports that, according to people familiar with...
B&N sales up in 2022
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
In the US, sales at chain bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) in 2022 were ‘very comfortably’ above pre-pandemic levels, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). CEO James Daunt told PW 2022 was...
HarperCollins US reaches ‘tentative’ agreement with unionised employees, sales down in Q2
Monday, 13 February 2023
HarperCollins US has reached a tentative agreement with its employee union after three months of negotiations, reports Publishers Weekly. UAW Local 2110, which represents more than 250 HarperCollins employees in...
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlists announced
Friday, 10 February 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2023 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Illustrated books The Fairy Garden (Georgia Buckthorn, illus...
BolognaBookPlus 2023 program announced
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) has announced its line-up of events and services for its BolognaBookPlus 2023 program, which takes place alongside the children’s book fair from 6–9 March. BCBF...
Chinese market down 12% in 2022
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Overall book sales in China decreased 12% in 2022 according to Beijing OpenBook, reports Publishing Perspectives. While sales via short video ecommerce, such as on TikTok and other platforms, were...
IndieBound joins Bookshop.org
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
In the US, the American Bookseller Association’s consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, IndieBound.org, will switch to using Bookshop.org for sales and fulfilment, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookshop.org founder Andy Hunter...
UK publishers’ ebook sales fall
Monday, 6 February 2023
In the UK, sales of ebooks from the ‘Big Six’ publishers fell 8.3% in 2022, reports the Bookseller. The publishers’ ebook volume to 43.6 million units in 2022, the lowest...
NBCC Awards finalists announced
Friday, 3 February 2023
In the US, the shortlists for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The finalists include: Fiction Dr No (Percival Everett, Graywolf) A New Name (Jon Fosse, trans...
HarperCollins to cut 5% of its North American workforce
Thursday, 2 February 2023
In the US, HarperCollins plans to cut 5% of its employees in North American by 30 June, reports Publishers Weekly. In a memo to employees, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said...
Newbery, Caldecott 2023 winners announced
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, reports Publishers Weekly. Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson...
HarperCollins, union begin mediation
Monday, 30 January 2023
In the US, HarperCollins and the union representing its striking employees have agreed upon an independent mediator to take over labour negotiations, reports Publishers Weekly. More than 200 union employees...
Waterstones sales, profit up in year to April 2022
Friday, 20 January 2023
In the UK, bookselling chain Waterstones posted an increased profit and revenue in the year ending April 2022, a recovery to the company’s finances following a plunge during multiple lockdowns...
German book sales down 2.1%
Thursday, 19 January 2023
Book sales in Germany were down 2.1% by value in 2022, according to statistics from the country’s publishers’ and booksellers’ association Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (BDG), reports Publishing Perspectives. The...
