Thursday, 2 October 2014
In Germany, Readfy has launched its advertisement-supported ebook service with a catalogue of 25,000 titles that can be read within smartphone apps for free, reports the Digital Reader. Unlike Scribd...

Thursday, 2 October 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are J (Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Cape), How to be Both (Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton),...

Thursday, 2 October 2014
In the UK, the winners of the 2014 Forward Prize for Poetry have been announced. The Forward Prize for Best Collection was awarded to The Cartographer Tries to Map a...

Wednesday, 1 October 2014
UK military history publisher Osprey Publishing has sold three of its imprints—Watkins (MBS), Angry Robot (sci-fi) and Nourish (wellbeing cookbooks)—to US entrepreneur Etan Ilfeld for an undisclosed sum, reports the...

Wednesday, 1 October 2014
British novelist Lionel Shriver has won this year’s BBC National Short Story Award for her story ‘Kilifi Creek’. Shriver, whose short stories have previously been shortlisted twice for the award,...

Tuesday, 30 September 2014
UK book trade publication the Bookseller has launched a prize for young adult books in response to a lack of existing awards. The first Bookseller YA Book Prize will award £2000 (A$3730)...

Tuesday, 30 September 2014
In the UK, Centum Books has partnered with Sainsbury’s to develop an exclusive range of children’s titles over a three-year period, reports the Bookseller. The publisher and retailer will develop a range...

Monday, 29 September 2014
New research from the UK has found that 73% of young people aged 16 to 24 prefer print over digital and audio formats, reports the Bookseller. The Voxburner survey of...

Monday, 29 September 2014
Hachette UK will merge its three children’s divisions into the one business on 1 January 2015, reports the Bookseller. The new Hachette Children’s Group will combine Hachette Children’s Books, Orion...

Friday, 26 September 2014
The French Embassy is opening a bookstore in New York City and will work with independent booksellers to create ‘French corners’ in their stores, reports Publishers Weekly. The US$5.3 million...

Friday, 26 September 2014
More than £130,000 (A$241,280) has been allocated to 73 independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland in the first round of UK grants funded by author James Patterson, reports the...

Friday, 26 September 2014
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has accepted the invitation for France to be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) in 2017, the France Ministry of Foreign Affairs has...

Thursday, 25 September 2014
The American Library Association (ALA) has released the list of most frequently challenged books in 2013 as part of Banned Books Week, which runs from 21-27 September. Three hundred and...

Thursday, 25 September 2014
Two months after Amazon launched its ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited in the US, the service has arrived in the UK. According to the Bookseller, none of the UK’s major...

Thursday, 25 September 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. The award, worth £30,000 (A$55,000), is presented annually to the...

Thursday, 25 September 2014
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has partnered with Universal Pictures with the aim of adapting more books to film, reports Publishers Weekly. Random House Studios head Peter Gethers will...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Amazon is planning to launch a crowd-sourced publishing program, reports the Bookseller. The retailer has told authors who self-publish using Kindle Direct Publishing that they will be invited to submit...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Distribution for Penguin Canada books will move from Pearson Canada’s warehouse in Newmarket, Ontario, to Random House’s Canada warehouses, reports Publishers Weekly. The move is expected to take place in...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
In Canada, digital publisher BookNet has ‘paused’ its consumer survey on ereading because of a plateau in ebook sales, reports Publishers Weekly. ‘The numbers we’re hearing for ebook unit sales is...

Monday, 22 September 2014
Amazon has announced it will allow users to link their accounts with family members to share content on the company’s Kindle ereaders. The announcement comes after Apple announced a similar...

Monday, 22 September 2014
In the US, Penguin Books for Young Readers will launch a Cartoon Network Books imprint in mid-2015, with books tied to shows owned by television company Cartoon Network, reports Publishers Weekly....

Thursday, 18 September 2014
In the US, HarperCollins is introducing a ‘Holiday Express Shipping’ program for independent bookstores, which will run from 3 November to 16 January. According to Publishers Weekly, the program will...

Thursday, 18 September 2014
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award. The shortlisted writers and their short stories are: Zadie Smith for ‘Miss Adele amidst the Corsets’; Rose...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
In the UK, academic bookseller and library supplier Blackwell’s has launched a new e-book platform for students in Beta. The platform, which the Bookseller reports is a ‘multi-million pound’ investment for...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Kobo has partnered with Bol.com, the largest provider of ebooks in the Netherlands and Belgium. The partnership means Kobo’s ereaders and tablets are available from the bol.com site and bol.com...

Tuesday, 16 September 2014
In the Maldives, new regulations require all prose and poetry be approved by the government prior to publication, reports Minivan News. The ‘Regulations on approving literature published in the Maldives’,...

Tuesday, 16 September 2014
In the US, HarperCollins is using watermarking technology to increase the security of its ebooks, reports Publishers Weekly. According to chief digital officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi, HarperCollins has adopted Digimarc’s Guardian...

Monday, 15 September 2014
VS Naipaul has been dropped from this year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) after the festival was unable to meet his ‘11th hour requests’, organisers have announced. UWRF founder...

Monday, 15 September 2014
In the US, digital publishing service provider Vook has acquired digital publisher Byliner, reports Publishers Weekly. Byliner’s catalogue of 60-70 longform nonfiction and fiction titles and small team of staff will be...