Monday, 14 July 2014
Debut Irish author Colin Barrett has won the 2014 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award—the world’s richest prize for a short-story collection, reports the Guardian. Barrett’s collection Young Skins (Vintage...

Monday, 14 July 2014
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that the ‘physical market’ for the first half of the year has fallen by 2.4% to £526 million (A$959 million), with volume sales of...

Friday, 11 July 2014
The Romance Writers of America has released the Novel Engagement app for readers and authors of romance fiction, reports Publishers Weekly. The app will feature a database of 5000 romance...

Friday, 11 July 2014
Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW) has launched the Disney Story Central app and website with titles for kids aged three to seven years, reports Publishers Weekly. The platform includes 100 ebooks based...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
In the UK, the Chipping Norton Literary Festival has announced that it will split its profits with authors in lieu of paying appearance fees, reports the Bookseller. The festival, which...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
In the UK, the Creative Industries Council (CIC) has released the ‘Create UK’ report with a strategy for growth across the creative sector, which will include a poster campaign highlighting the contribution of...

Monday, 7 July 2014
In the UK, the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company, which administer the Business Book of the Year Award, have announced a new prize for the best book proposal by...

Friday, 4 July 2014
In the UK, the winners of the inaugural Booktrust Best Book Awards have been announced. The awards are run in partnership with Amazon Kindle during Children’s Book Week and were...

Thursday, 3 July 2014
World Book Night US has been suspended after failing to secure funding from outside the industry, reports the Bookseller. The event, which started in 2011, follows the format of the...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
In the US, Penguin imprint Berkley is publishing one of its ‘major summer releases’ with two different covers and two different ISBNs, reports Publishers Weekly. Radhika Sanghani’s Virgin, a novel...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 Dagger Awards, reports the Bookseller. Little, Brown editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson won the Historical Dagger for The...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
The American Library Association has announced the winners of the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals. Donna Tartt won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Goldfinch (Abacus) and...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
The French Parliament has passed a law banning online book retailers from offering free shipping to customers, reports French Culture. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the bill was unanimously passed...

Friday, 27 June 2014
In the US, book sales were relatively flat in 2013, falling by less than 1% from US$27.12 billion (A$28.8 billion) in 2012 to US$27.01 billion (A$28.7 billion) in 2013, according to statistics from BookStats, reports...

Thursday, 26 June 2014
In the US, Barnes & Noble has announced plans to separate its Retail business and its Nook Media business, which includes its college bookstores, into two public companies, reports Publishers...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
In the US, the Hachette Book Group (HBG) has entered into an agreement to buy the Perseus Books Group (PBG), then sell PBG’s distribution business to Ingram Publisher Services (IPS), reports...

Tuesday, 24 June 2014
In the UK, Kevin Brooks has won the Carnegie Medal for The Bunker Diary (Puffin) and Jon Klassen has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for This is Not My Hat...

Monday, 23 June 2014
Salman Rushdie has won the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize, reports the Bookseller. Established in 2009 by English PEN in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter, the award is presented annually for outstanding literary merit by...

Monday, 23 June 2014
UK publisher Angry Robot Books has closed its YA imprint Strange Chemistry and its crime/mystery imprint Exhibit A, reports Publishers Weekly. The publisher said in a statement that the imprints have closed ‘due mainly to...