Tuesday, 16 September 2014
In the Maldives, new regulations require all prose and poetry be approved by the government prior to publication, reports Minivan News. The ‘Regulations on approving literature published in the Maldives’,...

Tuesday, 16 September 2014
In the US, HarperCollins is using watermarking technology to increase the security of its ebooks, reports Publishers Weekly. According to chief digital officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi, HarperCollins has adopted Digimarc’s Guardian...

Monday, 15 September 2014
VS Naipaul has been dropped from this year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) after the festival was unable to meet his ‘11th hour requests’, organisers have announced. UWRF founder...

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...