Thursday, 27 February 2014
NoViolet Bulawayo has won the inauagural Etisalat Prize for Literature, presented for debut fiction by African writers, for her novel We Need New Names (Chatto & Windus). Bulawayo was announced...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Bookstore chain Polare, which is owned by Dutch investment company ProCures, has declared bankruptcy, reports NL Times. The chain’s stores in the Netherlands and Belgium, which continue to trade, are...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
In the US, VIDA has released its annual figures on how many women and men were reviewed in, or wrote for, various high-profile literary publications. The 2013 count, which is...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Hera Sui has been appointed as the new managing director for Pearson Greater China, Pearson announced in a statement. Sui joins Pearson from enterprise software firm SAP, where she was...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
In the UK, Penguin Random House has opened an author portal for Random House UK authors and agents, reports the Bookseller. The UK Random House Author Portal, which is modelled...

Friday, 21 February 2014
In the UK, Hachette imprint Headline has launched a dedicated website for book bloggers to request books, author interviews and promotional content directly from the publisher, reports the Bookseller. The...

Thursday, 20 February 2014
In the US, a new literary prize to honour the memory of Washington DC bookstore Politics & Prose co-founder Carla Cohen has been announced by her friends and family, reports...

Thursday, 20 February 2014
In Israel, a law has come into effect that attempts to lower book prices, increase competition and break the duopoly of bookstore chains Steimatzky and Tzomet Sfarim, reports the Jerusalem...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
In the UK, Bonnier has launched an adult nonfiction imprint for official or endorsed titles with digital enhancements, reports the Bookseller. Blink Publishing, which plans to release 10 books this...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
In the UK, the finalists for this year’s Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The three finalists are: Stage Blood by Michael Blakemore (Faber);...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
In the UK, Abir Mukherjee has won the inaugural Telegraph Harvill Secker Prize for Crime Writing, reports the Bookseller. Mukherjee receives a publishing contract with Harvill Secker and an advance of £5000 (A$9251)...

Monday, 17 February 2014
The Competition Bureau of Canada has reached an agreement with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster that will limit the publishers’ use of agency pricing for ebooks, reports Digital...

Monday, 17 February 2014
US author Bella Andre has signed a deal with ebookseller Kobo for the exclusive rights to French translations of five titles over a three-month period, reports Publishers Weekly. The first title available, Le Cadeau (The Wedding...

Friday, 14 February 2014
BookExpo America (BEA) has announced that it will host China at its Global Market Forum in 2015. A delegation of 500 Chinese professionals from over 100 publishing companies and around...

Friday, 14 February 2014
The shortlists for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the UK, reports the Bookseller. Bookselling chain Waterstones presents three children’s book prizes each year, each worth...

Friday, 14 February 2014
In the US, ebook-subscription service Oyster has created a children’s section with 10,000 ebooks, including around 100 titles from Disney, reports Gigaom. Disney titles now available from Oyster include series such as ‘Toy Story’,...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
In the UK, A A Gill has won this year’s Hatchet Job of the Year Award for his Sunday Times review of Morrissey’s Autobiography (Penguin Classics), reports the Guardian. The...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
US author Hugh Howey has launched a website for analysis of genre ebook sales called Author Earnings, reports the Bookseller. The website offers a report with an interpretation of sales-ranking data...

Wednesday, 12 February 2014
In the UK, the shortlists for this year’s Paddy Power Political Book Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The awards, which were established in 2012 and first presented at...

Wednesday, 12 February 2014
French bookstore chain Chapitre has completed its dissolution after the Paris commercial court approved the takeover sale of eight stores and the closure of 23 stores that couldn’t find buyers,...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
The first Arabic-language ebookstore, Kotobi.com, was launched at the Cairo International Book Fair in February, reports ANSAmed. The bookstore offers several hundred Arabic ebooks from around 40 publishers. Key investor Vodafone...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Folio Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted titles are: Red Doc by Anne Carson (Jonathan Cape); Schroder by Amity Gaige (Faber);...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
In the UK, Random House has launched a new creative writing academy that will offer face-to-face and online writing courses from March. The Writers’ Academy will hold its first face-to-face...

Monday, 10 February 2014
Penguin Random House US will consolidate its distribution from February 2015, with the publisher announcing this week that it will close two of its four warehouses, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Friday, 7 February 2014
A fixed book price law has been passed in Slovenia, reports Publishing Perspectives. The Slovenian parliament passed the law on 30 January with a majority vote of 51 over 25....

Friday, 7 February 2014
Kobo will provide ebooks to Sony ereader and tablet customers in the US and Canada from March after a deal was struck between the two companies, reports the Bookseller. Sony...