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...

Friday, 12 September 2014
The New York Times Book Review has announced it will publish 12 new bestseller lists, reports Publishers Weekly. The new categories, which will be rotated in groups of four on a weekly basis,...

Friday, 12 September 2014
In the UK, Amazon has announced plans to move into a new office in London and increase its head office staff to 5000, ‘nearly trebling its head office workforce’, reports...

Thursday, 11 September 2014
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced that it will close its teen book community Spinebreakers, saying it needs to move to online spaces where ‘our audiences are...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
The UK will be the guest of honour at next year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico, reports the Bookseller. A delegation of editors, writers and artists will represent British culture and literature...

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s top-earning authors. James Patterson is at the top of the list earning US$90 million (A$97 million) over the past 12 months,...

Monday, 8 September 2014
Margaret Atwood has been chosen as the first contributor for the Future Library art project, which will see her ‘unpublished, unread’ manuscript locked away for 100 years, reports the Guardian....

Friday, 5 September 2014
In the UK, Picador has acquired a new collection of poetry from Clive James called Sentenced to Life to be released in April 2015, reports the Bookseller. The collection will...

Thursday, 4 September 2014
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the creation of a new Penguin Publishing Group that will house all of Penguin’s adult imprints, reports Publishers Weekly. The new...

Thursday, 4 September 2014
HarperCollins UK will pay authors a higher net royalty for ebooks sold through its new website than through other retailers, reports the Bookseller. HarperCollins UK launched its new website in August following the relaunch of the HarperCollins US website...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Technology company Samsung is the Innovation Partner at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), which runs from 8-12 October. The collaboration will ‘highlight the convergence of mobile technology and the...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble (B&N) is testing the Espresso Book Machine in three of its stores to ‘gauge consumer interest’, reports Publishers Weekly. The machines, which are currently...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK.The longlisted titles are: Roy Jenkins (John Campbell, Jonathan Cape) The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
In London, readers queued for up to 18 hours for a book signing with author Haruki Murakami, reports the Bookseller. Fans began queuing outside Waterstones Piccadilly in London from 5pm,...

Monday, 1 September 2014
Martin Amis’ usual publishers in Germany and France have refused to publish his most recent novel The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Cape), a ‘brutish comedy’ set in a fictionalised Auschwitz,...

Monday, 1 September 2014
In the UK, author Germaine Greer said that ebooks should ‘cost pennies’ in a discussion on the dispute between Amazon and Hachette on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Report’, reports the...

Thursday, 28 August 2014
Kobo has unveiled the ‘world’s first premium waterproof e-ink ereader’, reports Digital Book World. The Waterproof Aura H2O Reader can be submerged in one metre of water for up to...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
In the UK, Parragon Publishing has been restructured into two divisions that focus on ‘traditional and non-traditional book markets’, reports the Bookseller. The Parragon Publishing division will concentrate on traditional...

Tuesday, 26 August 2014
In the UK, Jim Crace has won this year’s James Tait Black Prize for Fiction for Harvest (Picador) and Hermione Lee has won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography for Penelope...

Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Hong Kong-based online book review publication the Asian Review of Books has moved into print, reports the South China Morning Post. The first print edition was produced in late July...

Monday, 25 August 2014
Amazon has started selling print books in Brazil two years after the launch of its digital bookselling business in the country. In a statement on Amazon.com.br, Amazon founder and CEO...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
In the US, Power of Now author Eckhart Tolle has created a new imprint for publisher New World Library, reports Publishers Weekly. Tolle will ‘identify and develop titles’ for the...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
In the UK, Penguin has acquired world rights to a new Skylanders Universe magazine based on the Skylanders videogames, reports the Bookseller. This is the first licensed magazine acquisition for...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
The winners of the 2014 Hugo Awards have been announced. The awards honour the best science-fiction and fantasy titles published in the previous year, as voted by members of the World...