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....