Monday, 28 October 2013
Larry Kirshbaum will step down as head of Amazon Publishing in early 2014 and return to his work as a literary agent, reports Publishers Weekly. Amazon said in a statement...

Friday, 25 October 2013
US author Rebecca Stead has won this year’s Guardian children’s fiction prize for her young adult novel Liar & Spy (Text). Stead’s novel, which tells the story of a 12-year-old...

Friday, 25 October 2013
Scottish author Angela Jackson has won this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for her debut novel The Emergence of Judy Taylor (Constable & Robinson). Jackson’s novel was...

Thursday, 24 October 2013
In the UK, the next book in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series will receive Penguin’s largest ever first print run for a children’s book, reports the Bookseller....

Thursday, 24 October 2013
The longlist for the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Book of Destruction (Anand, translated by Chetana Sachidanandan, Penguin); Goat Days (Benyamin,...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Australian author Thomas Keneally has been announced as a member of a new advisory council for the £60,000 (A$100,385) Man Booker International Prize, along with Australian-born critic and former publisher...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books has been announced. The finalists for the £10,000 (A$16,720) award are: Bird Sense (Tim Birkhead,...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
In the US, the Jewish Book Council has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. This year’s nonfiction contenders for the $US100,000 (A$103,600) prize, which...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
The city of Krakow in Poland has been named the seventh UNESCO City of Literature. It joins Edinburgh, Iowa City, Dublin, Reykjavik, Norwich and Melbourne, which was designated as a...

Monday, 21 October 2013
In the UK, WH Smith has relaunched its website after taking the site offline for nearly four days, reports the Bookseller. However, the retailer is not currently selling ebooks and...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Writers Maya Angelou, Junot Diaz and the late Michael Hastings were honoured at this year’s Norman Mailer Center gala, which was held at the New York Public Library on 17...

Friday, 18 October 2013
Kobo has entered the ereading market in India, with a number of its ereading devices now available from bookselling chains Crossword and WH Smith, and electronics retailer Croma. In a statement,...

Thursday, 17 October 2013
In the US, the National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2013 National Book Awards. In fiction, the finalists are: The Flamethrowers (Rachael Kushner, Harvill Secker); The Lowland...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
In the UK and Ireland, department store Argos has launched its own branded tablet, reports the Bookseller. Following the recent example set by supermarket Tesco, Argos will sell the seven-inch MyTablet...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Kobo has removed all self-published titles from its UK store following WH Smith’s decision to take its website offline while it removes explicit ebooks provided by the retailer, reports the Bookseller....

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Ingram Content Group has partnered with Russian media company EE Media to distribute titles in Russia via its Global Connect print-on-demand program, reports Publishers Weekly. The agreement gives publishers that are...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
British novelist Sarah Hall has won the 2013 BBC National Short Story Award for her story ‘Mrs Fox’. Hall, whose novels have previously won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and been nominated...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
In the UK, bookselling chain Waterstones will exclusively sell the print edition of a re-published short story by Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, reports the Bookseller. The story Queenie, which was...

Monday, 14 October 2013
In the UK, the shortlists for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards have been announced. Award categories include Best Adult Digital Book, Best Children’s Digital Book, Best Digital Marketing Campaign, Best...

Monday, 14 October 2013
In the US, fast-food chain McDonald’s will place 20 million copies of four books into Happy Meals during the first two weeks of November to coincide with National Literacy Day...

Friday, 11 October 2013
The London Book Fair (LBF) has launched a new suite of international publishing awards, which it will present for the first time at the 2014 fair, in association with the...

Friday, 11 October 2013
Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany this week, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle said he is in no rush to fully integrate the Penguin and Random House...

Thursday, 10 October 2013
HarperCollins UK will launch a new fiction imprint called The Borough Press, reports the Bookseller. Led by HarperCollins publishing director Katie Espiner, The Borough Press will be part of HarperFiction,...

Thursday, 10 October 2013
In an analysis of US ISBN data, Bowker has revealed that 391,000 self-published titles were published in 2012, which is an increase of 59% over 2011 and 422% over 2007....

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Bloomsbury has announced that it will launch its new digital-first imprint for young adult, teen and new adult fiction, Bloomsbury Spark, in December. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Bloomsbury Spark...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Penguin Books India from Ananda Publishers Private Limited’s (APPL), which completes the merger of Penguin Random House India, said PRH in a statement. After...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
In the UK, Alexander McCall Smith will write a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, reports the Bookseller. McCall Smith is the latest author to sign up to HarperCollins’ ‘Austen...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Brazil’s Guest of Honour program at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair will be without one of the country’s most famous authors, with Paulo Coelho cancelling his appearance at the fair...

Monday, 7 October 2013
The French parliament has passed a bill banning online retailers from offering free delivery to customers, reports the New York Times. The bill was unanimously passed through French parliament’s lower chamber...

Monday, 7 October 2013
In the US, Apple has lodged an appeal against Judge Denise Cote’s verdict in the ebook pricing case made on 10 July and the final judgement made on 6 September,...