Monday, 24 March 2014
The implementation of an agreement between the Competition Bureau of Canada and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster regarding the use of agency pricing for ebooks has been delayed...

Friday, 21 March 2014
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore (Allen Lane) has won the Political Book of the Year Award, worth £10,000 (A$18,265), at the Paddy...

Thursday, 20 March 2014
In a move that it says will ‘significantly’ boost its presence in Spain and Latin America, Penguin Random House has signed agreements to acquire the trade book businesses of Spanish-language...

Thursday, 20 March 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Disestablishment of Paradise (Philip Mann, Victor Gollancz); The...

Thursday, 20 March 2014
Barnes & Noble has announced that its self-publishing platform Nook Press is now available outside the US for use by authors and publishers in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
The Netherlands will join with Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Northern Belgium, as joint Guests of Honour at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair, reports the Bookseller. The Guest of Honour program will...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
In a bid to offer an alternative to Amazon that champions and supports independent publishers, Print on Demand Worldwide (POD-W) has launched a new online bookstore called the Great British...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
The shortlists for this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the UK, have been announced. Eight books have...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
The International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced the finalists for the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The shortlisted authors are: Ted van Lieshout (Netherlands), Houshang Moradi Kermani (Iran), Mirjam...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
The US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan has approved the plan for educational publisher Cengage Learning to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the equivalent of administration in Australia, reports Publishers Weekly....

Monday, 17 March 2014
Hungary’s largest bookselling chain Libri has merged with local retailer Shopline, ‘owner of the country’s answer to Amazon, Bookline.hu’, reports Publishing Perspectives. The merged business was approved by the Hungarian...

Monday, 17 March 2014
In the US, the winners of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the fiction category for Americanah (Fourth Estate), Sheri Fink won the...

Friday, 14 March 2014
Amazon Publishing will launch a new German-language publishing program based in Munich and has already acquired 12 titles for the program, reports Publishers Weekly. Under the direction of publisher Sarah...

Friday, 14 March 2014
Penguin Random House has appointed Steve Connolly as managing director of Penguin Book South Africa, a role that will involve him leading the company and Random House Struik through their integration process,...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
In the UK, eBooks by Sainsbury’s has sold the brand of ebook website aNobii to Italian publisher Mondadori, reports the Bookseller. On 11 March, the aNobii board, which includes HarperCollins and Penguin Random...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
In Canada, Thomas King has won this year’s RBC Taylor Prize for his book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (University of Minnesota Press)....

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
In the US, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which will be held this year from 12-13 April, will add IndieBound ‘buy’ buttons to its website alongside the existing...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
In the UK, US author George Saunders has won the inaugural Folio Prize for his short-story collection Tenth of December (Bloomsbury). Saunders was announced as the winner of the £40,000...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that this year’s Fellowship Programme will focus exclusively on children’s and young adult publishing. The program, which will be held on 6-12 October in...

Friday, 7 March 2014
In the US, the 2013 Story Prize, worth US$20,000 (A$18,160), has been awarded to George Saunders for Tenth of December (Bloomsbury). The Story Prize organisers said in a statement that the book was...

Thursday, 6 March 2014
In the US, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which will be held this year from 12-13 April, has partnered with Amazon’s affiliate program to sell books on its website, reports...

Thursday, 6 March 2014
Rebecca Smart, CEO of the Osprey Group, has been appointed MD of Ebury Publishing, part of the Penguin Random House Group, reports the Bookseller. Smart will take over from current...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
In the US, Ingram Content Group’s Vital Source Technologies business has acquired the assets of CourseSmart, an etextbook platform founded by Macmillan, Cengage, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson in...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
In the US, the winners of the 2014 Golden Kite Awards for children’s book authors and illustrators have been announced. Better Nate than Ever (Tim Federle, S&S) won the fiction...

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
In the UK, Amazon Publishing has said it wants to build ‘the world’s most author-centric publishing house’ according to job descriptions it has posted in an effort to recruit a...

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Simon & Schuster has launched a new website and email service that will promote backlist titles from all publishing houses, reports Publishers Weekly. The Off the Shelf website will publish...

Monday, 3 March 2014
The UK’s Independent Publishers Guild has announced the winners of this year’s Independent Publishing Awards at its annual conference in Oxford, reports the Bookseller. Children’s publisher Usborne Publishing won the Independent Publisher of...

Friday, 28 February 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, presented for books about health and medicine, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Signature of All Things...

Thursday, 27 February 2014
In Canada, Thomas King has won the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Nonfiction, worth C$40,000 (A$40,076), for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (University of Minnesota...