Tuesday, 14 June 2016
In the UK, YouTube personality and author of Girl Online Zoella has announced the eight books to be featured in her book club, propelling the books up the Amazon charts,...

Friday, 10 June 2016
Japanese eretailer Rakuten is closing its UK online store following a review of its European operations, reports the Bookseller. Rakuten will also exit the Spanish and Austrian markets as part...

Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Independent website Author Earnings has expanded the scope of its latest quarterly report on Amazon print, audio and ebook sales to take into account titles outside the Amazon bestseller lists,...

Wednesday, 8 June 2016
US website Literary Hub has launched a new section of its site that aggregates book reviews from over 70 sources, called Book Marks. Pitched by Literary Hub as the ‘Rotten...

Tuesday, 7 June 2016
In the US, HarperCollins has announced the launch of its daily Facebook Live program, which will see authors broadcast live videos to readers and take comments and questions on the...

Monday, 6 June 2016
The Israeli government has repealed legislation in force since 2014 that prohibits discounts on new books in the first 18 months of publication, reports Israel National News. The law, which...

Monday, 6 June 2016
Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian writer to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘Cow and Company’. The £5000 (A$9586) prize is presented annually to the...

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
David Mitchell has been chosen as the second contributor to Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, in which authors submit manuscripts to be buried until 2114, reports the Guardian....

Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the 2016 Orwell Prize for his book The Invention of Russia (Atlantic Books), an account of Russia’s post-Soviet transformation from 1985 to the...

Monday, 30 May 2016
A new Enders Analysis report has found self-published titles have become ‘a fairly large presence in the ebook sector’ but its market share is mostly limited to romance and speculative-fiction...

Friday, 27 May 2016
Macmillan has acquired NYC-based self-publishing platform Pronoun, which provides digital books publishing tools and facilitates distribution through Amazon, Apple and other ebook retailers, reports the Bookseller. Pronoun, which launched in...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
In the US, audiobook sales increased 20% in 2015 to reach an estimated US$1.78bn (A$2.48bn), boosted by a 34% growth in digital audio, reports Publishers Weekly. The results come from...

Tuesday, 24 May 2016
A BookNet Canada report has found that ebook sales are becoming increasingly important to publishers’ total revenue, but fewer publishers now have dedicated digital staff, reports Publishers Weekly. The ‘State...

Tuesday, 24 May 2016
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has announced it will stop selling ebooks from its website and will instead send customers to Kobo for digital sales, reports the Bookseller. In a statement...

Monday, 23 May 2016
The UK government’s tax department HMRC has sent letters to several publishers requesting the 20% value-added tax (VAT) be paid on adult colouring titles, reports the Bookseller. In the UK,...

Friday, 20 May 2016
In the UK, Bloomsbury has unveiled a new strategy that will aim to reposition the publisher from a primarily consumer-driven focussed model to ‘a digital B2B (business-to-business)’ model by capitalising...

Thursday, 19 May 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has opened a bookstore in US territory Puerto Rico, in partnership with local bookseller The Bookmark, reports the Digital Reader. The store contains 1000 PRH titles...

Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Bloomsbury will partner with Arabic publisher the Kalimat Group in an exchange that will see the two publishers release a number of books in translation from each other’s list every year,...

Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Amazon’s reading and book recommendations platform Goodreads has introduced a daily email promotion program offering discounted ebooks tailored to individual users’ reading history, reports Publishers Weekly. Goodreads Deals emails will...

Monday, 16 May 2016
Debut author Max Porter has won the £30,000 (A$59,190) Dylan Thomas Prize for the best English-language fiction work by an author aged 39 or under for his book Grief is...

Monday, 16 May 2016
In the US, HarperCollins has announced its New Bookstore Development Program, which will provide extra discounts and grants to newly opened independent bookstores. The program, which launches 1 July, is...