Monday, 28 August 2017
Pearson has retained the top spot in the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry for the ninth year in a row, reports the Bookseller. The annual Livres Hebdo/Bookseller list, compiled...

Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Bloomsbury will launch an English-language imprint Bloomsbury China in February next year, reports the Bookseller. The imprint will be based at the publisher’s London office. It will publish works in...

Tuesday, 22 August 2017
In the UK, Cambridge University Press (CUP) has reversed its decision to block access to hundreds of articles in its journal The China Quarterly in China after a ‘justifiably intense...

Thursday, 17 August 2017
The Quarto Group has terminated discussions with an unsolicited bidder on the ‘mutual agreement’ of both parties, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Quarto announced the offer from...

Monday, 14 August 2017
In the US, HarperCollins has reported a decline in revenue of US$10m ($A12.7m) in the fiscal year ending 30 June, a drop of 0.6% compared to fiscal 2016, reports Publishers...

Wednesday, 9 August 2017
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. The shortlisted titles...

Wednesday, 9 August 2017
The Quarto Group has received an unsolicited approach for sale from a third-party buyer, reports the Bookseller. Quarto said the board considers the price ‘attractive and reflective of the inherent...

Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Simon & Schuster UK has signed up to the Society of Authors’ (SoA) seven-point plan to ensure ‘special sales deals’ don’t affect writers’ earnings, reports the Bookseller. The SoA published...

Monday, 7 August 2017
Pearson will cut 3000 jobs by 2020 in an effort to save £300m (A$493m) a year, reports the Bookseller. CEO John Fallon announced the job cuts along with the company’s...

Monday, 31 July 2017
In Canada, the government-sponsored organisation BookNet has published the results from a survey of Canadian book buyers’ reading habits, reports Publishers Weekly. The survey found 44% of Canadian book buyers...

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
In the US, an asset management firm with a ‘meaningful’ stake in Barnes & Noble has sent a letter to the company urging it to sell the business, reports Publishers...

Friday, 21 July 2017
In the US, Scholastic has reported a four percent increase in revenue over fiscal 2016 for the year ending 31 May 2017, reports Publishers Weekly. Operating income at the publisher...

Tuesday, 18 July 2017
In the UK, World Book Day (WBD) titles sales have risen by more than 50% compared to the previous year, with 469,274 copies sold in the week of the event,...

Monday, 17 July 2017
In the UK, print sales were up 1.2% to £652.7m (A$1.1b) in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2016 according to Nielsen BookScan, reports...

Friday, 14 July 2017
A Canadian federal court has ruled in favour of national licensing agency Access Copyright in its legal dispute with York University, finding that the tertiary institution’s intellectual property guidelines were...

Thursday, 13 July 2017
US print sales in the first half of 2017 have increase 3% in volume compared to the first six months of 2016, despite the lack of a breakout print title,...