Thursday, 18 June 2015
British author Jim Crace has won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Harvest (Picador). The €100,000 (A$205,140) award is presented annually for a novel written in...

Thursday, 18 June 2015
France has been named as the guest of honour at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), reports the Bookseller. This is the second time the country has been guest of...

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Amazon will pay self-published authors in its Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending Library on a new pay-per-page-read model from 1 July, reports Publishers Weekly. The change is in response...

Tuesday, 16 June 2015
British author John Spurling has won the £25,000 (A$50,217) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Ten Thousand Things (Duckworth), reports the Bookseller. The judges described Spurling’s novel, which...

Tuesday, 16 June 2015
British poet James Fenton has won the 2015 PEN/Pinter Prize, reports the Bookseller. The award, established by English PEN in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter, is presented annually for...

Monday, 15 June 2015
UK independent publisher And Other Stories will only publish books by women writers in 2018 following author Kamila Shamsie’s call for publishers to help redress the gender bias in the literary world,...

Friday, 12 June 2015
The European Commission (EC) has opened a formal investigation into Amazon’s ebook practices, reports the Bookseller. The EC said it will focus on clauses ‘which seem to shield Amazon from...

Friday, 12 June 2015
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has reported that US book sales increased by 4.6% in 2014 compared to the previous year, reports Publishers Weekly. The increase was led by a...

Thursday, 11 June 2015
In the US, the Library of Congress has named Juan Felipe Herrera as the country’s next Poet Laureate, reports the New York Times. Herrera, who was Poet Laureate of California from 2012-2014,...

Thursday, 11 June 2015
The German book trade association Börsenverein has released figures on the performance of the German book market in 2014, reporting a 2.2% fall in overall sales to €9.32bn (A$13.63bn). The...

Wednesday, 10 June 2015
UK book trade publication the Bookseller has announced its fifth annual list of ‘up-and-comers and leaders of the future in the book trade’. The list features 39 people working in...

Wednesday, 10 June 2015
In the UK, children’s author and illustrator Chris Riddell has been appointed the ninth Waterstones Children’s Laureate, taking over from outgoing Laureate Malorie Blackman, who has occupied in the role...

Wednesday, 10 June 2015
In the US, PEN America has announced the second round of winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Following the announcement of the majority of the award-winners in May, the...

Tuesday, 9 June 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2014 Nebula Awards have been announced. Best Novel was awarded to Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer, Fourth Estate); Best Novella to Yesterday’s Kin (Nancy Kress,...

Tuesday, 9 June 2015
In the UK, ebook market share has decreased slightly in the first quarter of 2015, reports the Bookseller. A report from Nielsen Book Research found that ebook share increased from...

Friday, 5 June 2015
In the US, Jacqueline Woodson has been selected as the new Young People’s Poet Laureate and will succeed current laureate Kenn Nesbitt., reports Publishers Weekly. The Poetry Foundation president Robert...

Thursday, 4 June 2015
Scottish author Ali Smith has won the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel How to be Both (Penguin). Smith’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six,...

Thursday, 4 June 2015
In the UK, Nielsen is developing a ‘festival sales measurement’ to record book sales from the Hay and Edinburgh literary festivals in its bestseller charts, reports the Bookseller. According to...

Thursday, 4 June 2015
In the UK, the High Court has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block seven websites that hold a combined 10 million ebook titles in breach of copyright laws, reports...

Wednesday, 3 June 2015
The winners of the 2015 Lambda literary awards, also known as the ‘lammys’, have been announced. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) writing for books...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015
The €100,000 (A$143,452) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is looking for a new sponsor, reports the Irish Times. The prize was previously backed by a trust fund provided by the now defunct...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015
E L James has announced that she will release a new version of her bestselling book Fifty Shades of Grey this month. Grey will retell the story of Fifty Shades...

Monday, 1 June 2015
Hachette US and author James Patterson have launched a new children’s imprint called Jimmy Patterson, reports the Bookseller. The imprint, which was announced at Book Expo America, will publish books...

Monday, 1 June 2015
In the US, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) has recorded an increase in independent bookstore members for the sixth year in a row, reports Publishers Weekly. Speaking at Book Expo America (BEA), ABA...

Thursday, 28 May 2015
German author Jenny Erpenback has won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days (translated by Susan Bernofsky, Portobello Books), reports the Bookseller. Erpenbeck and Bernofsky will...

Thursday, 28 May 2015
Amazon has started booking its UK retail sales through the UK, which means its profits will be taxed by HM Revenue and Customs, reports the Guardian. For the past 11...

Thursday, 28 May 2015
In the US, Kobo and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) have partnered on a new ‘eRead Local’ program to run for 100 days this summer, reports Publishers Weekly. ABA stores...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK and Amazon are in dispute over terms, with a new contract currently under negotiation, reports the Bookseller. While neither company has confirmed the terms under...

Monday, 25 May 2015
In the UK, Amazon has started fining publishers for late deliveries of books to its warehouses, reports the Bookseller. The retailer has sent a letter to suppliers warning that if...