Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Close to 1200 writers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have signed an open letter protesting Amazon’s tactics in its trading dispute with the Bonnier Group, reports the Bookseller. The authors...

Monday, 18 August 2014
In the US, judge Denise Cote has ordered that all the parties involved in an ebook price-fixing case instigated by Australian software company DNAML against Apple and the five ‘agency...

Thursday, 14 August 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted titles are: The Wake (Paul Kingsnorth, Unbound), which is also longlisted for this...

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
UK-based online bookstore Best Little Bookshop, the brainchild of former Book Depository MD Kieron Smith, has launched in beta form, reports the Bookseller. Smith announced plans to create the bookstore in February 2014 after leaving...

Tuesday, 12 August 2014
In the US, HarperCollins has established a fund to help retailers promote the publisher’s books, reports Publishers Weekly. The HarperCollins Promotional Fund (HCPF) began in July and offers ‘qualifying accounts’...

Tuesday, 12 August 2014
In the US, Hachette CEO  Michael Pietsch has responded to emails from readers complaining about the price of ebooks. The emails to Pietsch are the result of a ‘Readers United’ campaign by...

Friday, 8 August 2014
In the US, Hachette and Ingram have confirmed that their agreement to buy the Perseus Books Group (PBG) has been called off. Publishers Weekly quotes a letter sent from Perseus...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
In the US, Amazon has expanded its same-day delivery service for customers in the metro areas of 12 major cities, said the company in a statement. Customers will be able...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
The longlist has been announced for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, presented annually for the book that has ‘the most compelling and enjoyable insight into...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Production of print books by traditional publishers in the United States has dropped from 309,957 titles in 2012 ‘to a projected 304,912 titles in 2013’, according to bibliographic information provider...

Monday, 4 August 2014
HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp has completed its acquisition of Harlequin from Torstar Corporation for C$455 million (A$447 million), reports Publishers Weekly. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the acquisition was...

Monday, 4 August 2014
In the US, HarperCollins, Ingram and ebook platform BookShout are working with 11 independent bookstores to provide bundling of print books and ebooks, said HarperCollins in a statement. Readers who select...

Friday, 1 August 2014
PEN America has announced winners for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards. The unpublished novel ‘And West is West’ by Ron Childress has won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction,...

Thursday, 31 July 2014
Macmillan US is adding frontlist ebooks published in the previous 12 months to its public library elending project, reports DigitalBookWorld. The addition of frontlist titles increases the number of Macmillan...

Thursday, 31 July 2014
Amazon has outlined its objectives in its dispute with Hachette US over sales terms in a post on its Kindle forum. A key objective is ‘lower ebook prices’, says the...

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has named the 20 ‘most life-changing novels written by women’, as voted by the public through the prize’s #ThisBook twitter campaign. From ‘thousands’ of...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Apple has acquired book analytics and recommendation company BookLamp, described as a ‘Pandora for books’, reports Techcrunch. The company, which was purchased for between US$10 and US$15 million, is best...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Frankfurt Book Fair’s (FBF) StoryDrive conference will send delegates to the computer-game trade fair gamescon in Cologne in August, FBF said in a statement. Ten representatives of international publishing houses and literary agencies...

Monday, 28 July 2014
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has opened a new store under ‘independent’ branding, reports the Bookseller. Southwold Books opened in July in the seaside town of Southwold and will ‘be run...

Friday, 25 July 2014
The number of ebooks on the Kindle bestseller list that are offered through Amazon’s new subscription service Kindle Unlimited has tripled since the launch of the service, reports Digital Book...

Friday, 25 July 2014
A British Film Institute (BFI) report has found that eight of the world’s 20 highest-grossing film releases from 2001 to 2013 were adaptations of novels by UK authors, reports the Bookseller. The adaptations were four films based on J...

Thursday, 24 July 2014
In the US, the Devault-Graves Agency (DGA) has published the J D Salinger short story collection Three Early Stories as a print-on-demand paperback, ebook and audiobook, reports Publishers Weekly. DGA co-owner...