Tuesday, 22 September 2015
The longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (Jonathan Bate, Flamingo) This Divided Island (Samanth Subramanian, Atlantic...

Friday, 18 September 2015
In the UK and US, Amazon has introduced a low-cost tablet priced at £49.99 (A$108.26) and US$49.99 (A$69.52) in the two markets, reports the Bookseller and the Wall Street Journal....

Friday, 18 September 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 has been announced. The shortlisted writers and their stories are: Jonathan Buckley for ‘Briar Road’, Mark Haddon for ‘Bunny’,...

Thursday, 17 September 2015
In the UK, a survey conducted by Scholastic has found only 17% of 15- to 17-year-olds often read for fun, reports the Bookseller. The ‘Kids & Family Reading Report’ surveyed...

Thursday, 17 September 2015
German author and illustrator Cornelia Funke, best known for her children’s fantasy series ‘Inkheart’ and ‘Mirrorworld’, has started her own publishing company in response to editorial disagreements with her US...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James, Oneworld Publications), Satin Island (Tom McCarthy, Jonathan...

Monday, 14 September 2015
In the US, a new Authors Guild survey has found the median writing-related income of its members has declined 24% in the past five years, reports Publishers Weekly. According to...

Friday, 11 September 2015
In the US, Perseus Books Group (PBG) has hired investment banking firm Greenhill & Co to initiate ‘a formal process to explore a potential sale of the business’, reports Publishers...

Thursday, 10 September 2015
Amazon has appointed a director of social responsibility amid recent criticism of its business practices, reports the Bookseller. Christine Bader, the author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
UK author Jonathan Tel has won the 2015 Commonwealth 2015 Short Story Prize for his story ‘The Human Phonograph’. The £5000 (A$10,987) prize is presented annually to the best piece...

Tuesday, 8 September 2015
A group of authors, led by Patrick Ness, have raised over £500,000 (A$1.1m) for Syrian refugees, reports the Bookseller. Ness launched the fundraising campaign on 3 September, pledging to match...

Monday, 7 September 2015
In the US, sales of Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster ebooks through Amazon have fallen since the publishers signed new distribution deals, which included provisions for them to set the prices...

Friday, 4 September 2015
Book Depository founder Emad Eldeen Elakehal will launch a new international online bookseller later this year, reports Internet Retailing. Elakehal founded the Book Depository in 2004 and was CEO for...

Wednesday, 2 September 2015
In the US, more than 30 publishing houses, including Macmillan, Abrams, Lerner, Bloomsbury, and Chronicle have agreed to take part in the ‘Diversity Baseline’ survey, reports Publishers Weekly. The survey,...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe has said the German media company could consider raising its stake in Penguin Random House (PRH), reports Reuters. Speaking to reporters after the release of Bertelsmann’s...

Monday, 31 August 2015
The German bookseller alliance Tolino has introduced an ebook bestseller list, with data received from all alliance member stores, reports Publishing Perspectives. The list tracks ebooks that are traditionally published...

Friday, 28 August 2015
In the US, New York City education officials have delayed a US$30m ($A41.7m) deal with Amazon for the company to provide students with ebooks after advocates highlighted the program would exclude...

Thursday, 27 August 2015
In the UK, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on The Train (Transworld Digital) is the bestselling Kindle ebook of the year to date, with Amazon revealing the top 20 bestselling titles...

Wednesday, 26 August 2015
In the US, a lawsuit brought against Author Solutions, the self-publishing service provider owned by Penguin Random House, has been discontinued following an undisclosed out-of-court settlement, reports Publishers Weekly. The case was...

Tuesday, 25 August 2015
In the US, ebook subscription service Scribd will restrict its audiobook content by introducing a two-tiered service, reports Publishers Weekly. Customers, who pay a monthly US$8.99 (A$12.55) membership fee, will...

Monday, 24 August 2015
The winners of the 2015 Hugo Awards have been announced, with no awards given in five categories in response to the campaign by voting blocs the ‘Sad Puppies’ and ‘Rabid Puppies’ to...

Friday, 21 August 2015
HarperCollins has announced it will close its online writers’ community Authonomy at the end of September. The site, which launched in 2008, invites users to submit and rank manuscripts online,...

Thursday, 20 August 2015
In the US, a New York Times article that depicts Amazon is a ‘bruising workplace’ has drawn a response from the government, as well as much discussion in the book industry. Publishers...

Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Random House Germany (Verlagsgruppe Random House) has announced it will switch from ‘hard’ DRM to ‘soft’ DRM, also known as digital watermarking, as of 1 October, reports the Bookseller. Random...

Tuesday, 18 August 2015
In the UK, the winners of the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography have been announced, with debut novelist Zia Haider Rahman winning the fiction prize for In...

Tuesday, 18 August 2015
International Publishers Association (IPA) policy director José Borghino has been promoted to secretary general, replacing Jens Bammel in the position. Borghino was appointed policy director in 2013, after previous roles...

Monday, 17 August 2015
The longlist for this year’s £10,000 ($21,238) Guardian First Book Award has been announced. The longlist for the award, which is presented to the year’s best debut in any genre,...