Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Bantam) has won this year’s Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in the...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
In the UK, Hodder & Stoughton has offered to refund a customer for the purchase of Alex Ferguson’s My Autobiography following the discovery of multiple factual errors, reports the Mirror. Readers have...

Monday, 18 November 2013
Penguin Random House (PRH) and a group of British authors, called Authors for the Philippines, are donating funds towards the Red Cross aid relief effort in the Philippines for those...

Friday, 15 November 2013
The latest instalment in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series has sold over one million copies worldwide in its first week, reports Publishers Weekly. Hard Luck (Puffin), the eighth book...

Thursday, 14 November 2013
Irish author Eimear McBride has won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize for ‘boldly original fiction’ for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Text). McBride’s debut novel was selected for the £10,000...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Penguin India will launch a crime imprint with authors who are connected to Bollywood, reports Business Today. The Blue Salt imprint will launch in December with the titles Ghalib Danger...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In the US, self-help author Tim Ferriss has begun publishing audiobooks, reports TechCrunch. Ferriss, who is the author of books such as The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body (both Vermilion), is...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster has pulled the sale of a book about the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, amid doubt about its legitimacy, reports the Associated Press. Threshold...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, Amazon shoppers in New York and Los Angeles will be able to receive their parcels on Sundays as a result of a new deal between the retailer...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, a debut novel has sold at auction for ‘close to US$2 million’ (A$2.14 million) after a bidding war in which 10 publishers bid more than $1 million...

Monday, 11 November 2013
In the US, journalist Matti Friedman has won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of...

Monday, 11 November 2013
The shortlist for this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: My Education (Susan Choi, Short Books); The Last Banquet (Jonathan...

Monday, 11 November 2013
In the UK, US author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize for her short-story collection Battleborn (Granta). Vaye Watkins was presented with the prize, which is worth...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (Gollancz) has won the Best Fantasy Novel category at the 2013 British Fantasy Awards, which were presented at the World Fantasy Convention...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
In Canada, Lynn Coady has won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short-story collection Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press). She wins C$50,000 (A$50,340). Coady’s book was chosen by judges...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
In the UK, author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the £20,000 (A$33,802) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for The Pike (Fourth Estate), her biography of the controversial Italian artist and nationalist...

Monday, 4 November 2013
In the US, Macmillan imprint Picador is launching a Modern Classics list, beginning with the 25th-anniversary edition of Jonathan Franzen’s first novel The Twenty-Seventh City in November, reports Publishers Weekly....

Monday, 4 November 2013
In the UK, 57 employees have been made redundant at audiobook publisher and retailer AudioGO after the company was placed into administration at the end of October, reports the Bookseller....

Friday, 1 November 2013
In the UK, HarperCollins is partnering with bookselling chain Foyles to offer print and ebook bundles on eight selected titles, reports the Bookseller. The eight print titles will come shrink-wrapped...

Friday, 1 November 2013
Amazon Publishing has announced plans to publish a weekly digital literary magazine focused on short fiction and poetry, reports Publishers Weekly. One Day will focus on one fiction writer and...

Thursday, 31 October 2013
HarperCollins has launched two new websites that sell CS Lewis ebooks direct to consumers, reports the Bookseller. The websites www.cslewis.com and www.narnia.com are the result of a partnership between HarperCollins...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster has announced plans to launch a new imprint dedicated to science-fiction, fantasy and horror books, reports Publishers Weekly. The as-yet-unnamed imprint, which will be...

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
In the UK, WH Smith is selling ebooks again after taking its store offline following the discovery of a number of explicit self-published ebooks provided by Kobo, reports the Bookseller....

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
In Europe, a survey has found that close to a quarter of Europeans have bought books or magazines online in the past year, reports the Bookseller. Eurostat, the statistical office...

Monday, 28 October 2013
In the UK, the winners of the 2013 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards have been announced. Mick Herron won the Gold Dagger, which is presented for the best crime...