US Library of Congress – further strife
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and director of the US Copyright Office, has also been fired by the Trump administration, reported Publishers Weekly (PW). This follows the firing of US Librarian...
BIBF to increase focus on academic publishing
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), running 18–22 June 2025, will increase its focus on academic publishing with a new conference in partnership with the International Association of Scientific, Technical...
UK: Children’s reading report presented to Parliament
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
In the UK, 'Turning the Page: A Plan to Revive Children's Reading for Enjoyment', a joint Publishers Association/All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing report, was launched in Parliament, reports Book Brunch. The...
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist revealed
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
The 2025 shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been announced. Shortlisted titles are: All Fours (Miranda July, Canongate) Code Noir (Canisia Lubrin, Soft Skull) Liars (Sarah Manguso,...
International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$107,528), has been announced. Chosen from a longlist of 16, the titles in the running for this...
Brunet wins 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
French author Marion Brunet has won the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, worth 5 million SEK (A$794,966), reports Publishers Weekly. Judges made note of Brunet's settings, ‘a fiercely pulsating present with...
Canadian booksellers, publishers lobby against tariffs
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
In Canada, booksellers are asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to exclude books from the 25% counter-tariffs due to take effect on 2 April, covering C$125 billion (A$139 billion) worth of...
Baker wins 2024 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
In the UK, Harriet Baker has won the £10,000 (A$20,365) Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for Rural Hours (Allen Lane), a biography of Virginia Woolf,...
Carnegie 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
In the UK, the shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: The Carnegie Medal...
Preliminary data shows 6.5% increase in US book sales
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that, ‘preliminary data for the full year indicates that publishing industry sales increased 6.5% over 2023’, to US$14.18 billion (A$22.65b). The increase comes despite the...
2025 International Booker longlist announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
In the UK, the longlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$99,902), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize are: The Book of...
Mann announced as incoming CEO S&S International
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Ian Chapman will step down as CEO and publisher of Simon & Schuster (S&S) UK and International in May, after 25 years with the organisation. He will be replaced in...
Arrest of booksellers sparks international condemnation
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna, the Palestinian uncle and nephew co-owners of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, were released by police on Tuesday, 11 February, but remain under a...
2024 Chytomo Award winners announced
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
In Ukraine, the 2024 winners of the Chytomo Awards have been announced, reports Publishing Perspectives. The Chytomo Awards celebrate achievements in Ukrainian publishing across three categories, highlighting innovations in digital publishing,...
RBmedia reports ‘record-setting performance’, OverDrive audiobook borrowing up 19%
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reported a strong close to 2024 for audiobook publisher RBmedia. After operating for a full year under new ownership since being acquired by H.I.G....
Bestseller Awards: Donaldson overtakes Rowling in units sold
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
In the UK, Nielsen BookData and BolognaBookPlus have awarded the annual Bestseller Awards, reports BookBrunch. Based on UK volume sales data, the Bestseller Awards recognise all-time sales across both print...
Gizzi wins 2024 TS Eliot Prize
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
In the UK, Peter Gizzi has won the 2024 TS Eliot Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,319), for Fierce Elegy (Penguin), reports Book Brunch. Fierce Elegy was chosen from a shortlist of...
‘Supremacy’ wins 2024 FT Business Book of the Year
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
In the UK, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World (Parmy Olson, St Martin’s Press) has won the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the...
Polari Prizes 2024 winners announced
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
In the UK, the winners of the 2024 Polari Prizes have been announced. The winners in each category are: Polari Book Prize (£2000; A$3908) The Gallopers (Jon Ransom, Muswell Press),...
HarperCollins becomes first major US trade publisher to reach AI licensing deal
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the US, HarperCollins has become the first of the Big Five publishers to accept an AI licensing deal, reaching an agreement with an undisclosed company ‘to provide access to...
Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
In the UK, Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,635), for Orbital (Vintage). Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts...
S&S-owned publisher plans ‘limited experiment’ using AI for English translations
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
In the Netherlands, the country’s largest book publisher—Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK), which was acquired by Simon & Schuster earlier this year—has confirmed it plans to use artificial intelligence (AI)...
‘Language City’ wins 2024 British Academy Book Prize
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
In the UK, US author writer Ross Perlin has won the £25,000 (A$48,543) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...
US audiobook fiction up 61.8% in July
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that digital audio sales jumped significantly in the month of July, compared to the same time the previous year, based on total sales...
FT Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost)...
Winter wins 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
In the UK, Kate Winter has won the £5000 (A$9736) Klaus Flugge Prize for the book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin). Featuring panoramic fold-out pages and illustrated in watercolour, The Fossil...
Audible tests AI voice replica service for narrators
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Audible is ‘inviting a small group of narrators to participate in a beta test that will enable them to create and monetise...
Wiley expects to make US$44 million from AI partnership, authors unable to opt out
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
In the US, academic publisher Wiley has revealed it expects to make US$44 million (A$66m) from artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships that allow large language models (LLMs) to be trained on...
Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$48,482) award, selected...
‘In Ascension’ wins 2024 Arthur C Clarke Award
Wednesday, 7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports the Guardian. MacInnes’s third novel, In Ascension follows marine biologist...
