Friday, 31 May 2013
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has been given permission by the Canadian government to expand its publishing operations into Canada, reports Publishers Weekly. Previously the publisher was only allowed to distribute...

Thursday, 30 May 2013
In the US, the National Books Critic Circle (NBCC) has added a new award category for debut books. The John Leonard Award, named after the founding member of the NBCC and...

Thursday, 30 May 2013
In the US, HarperCollins has launched a new program that allows authors and the publisher’s marketing and publicity teams to share digital proofs of forthcoming books, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
The Dutch Booksellers Association has launched an online self-assessment tool to help booksellers improve their businesses, reports the Bookseller. The ‘Dutch Booksellers Barometer’, which has been developed by the association’s...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
In the US, Bowker is continuing to expand its My Identifiers platform with a new partnership with Digi-Rights. An online tool for small publishers and self-publishers to manage their rights...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
In the UK, the Guardian has announced the longlist for its 2013 children’s fiction prize. The longlisted titles are: The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (David Almond, illus by Oliver...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The inaugural China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) will be held at the Shanghai Mart Exhibition Centre on 7-10 November, reports Publishers Weekly. With two days dedicated to the trade...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The board of News Corporation, the parent company of HarperCollins, has approved the decision to split the organisation into two separately traded companies, reports the Bookseller. The split, effective from...

Monday, 27 May 2013
Six finalists have been chosen from the inaugural Publishing Hackathon, held in New York on 18-19 May. Thirty teams were given 36 hours to come up with an idea for a book discovery...

Monday, 27 May 2013
In the US, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has awarded Katherine Boo this year’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, worth US$15,000 (A$15,298). Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful...

Friday, 24 May 2013
The Reading Room, a book-focussed social media website, will begin selling print books online in June, following its introduction of ebook sales earlier this year, reports Digital Book World. The...

Thursday, 23 May 2013
In the US, Penguin will not participate as a defendant in the Department of Justice’s long-awaited ebook pricing trial after reaching a settlement in the ebook pricing case with US...

Thursday, 23 May 2013
US author Lydia Davis has won the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. Announcing Davis as the fifth winner of the Man Booker International Prize, the committee praised Davis’ ‘inventive, carefully-crafted...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
In the US, independent children’s publisher Barefoot Books has announced it will no longer sell books through Amazon, reports Digital Book World. The publisher said in a statement that it...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is restructuring its bookshop management positions to put more emphasis on shop-floor bookselling, reports the Bookseller. Managing director James Daunt has sent an email informing staff...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
In the US, Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has launched SelfPublishedAuthor.com, a website designed to help authors self-publish their work. The website, which says its aim is to ‘guide independent authors...

Monday, 20 May 2013
In the US, another book discovery platform, BookLikes, has been launched. The platform allows users to create a personal webpage complete with blog, virtual bookshelf and reading timeline, and to...

Monday, 20 May 2013
European booksellers have urged the European Commission to act over big retailers’ use of closed ebook ‘ecosystems’, reports the Bookseller. At the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) conference held...

Friday, 17 May 2013
US novelist E L Doctorow has been awarded one of the 2013 Gold Medals for the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, reports the New York Times....

Friday, 17 May 2013
As Apple prepares to face the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in a courtroom on 3 June over the DOJ’s ongoing ebook pricing lawsuit, an email from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...

Thursday, 16 May 2013
In the UK, Philip Hensher has won the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize, reports the Guardian. Hensher won the £10,000 (A$15,416) award for Scenes from Early Life (Fourth Estate), a novel about his husband’s upbringing in...

Thursday, 16 May 2013
In the US, author Jeff Kinney and illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser have taken out the top awards at this year’s Children’s Book Council (CBC) Children’s Choice Book Awards. Kinney was...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Amazon has purchased screen technology company Liquavista from Samsung, sparking rumours that the company is working on a colour version of its Kindle, reports the Digital Reader. Amazon confirmed the...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013
In South Korea, the CEO of book publisher Jaeum & Moeum has stepped down amid allegations he inflated company sales figures, reports the Korea Times. Kang Byung-chul stepped down following...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
In the US, educational publisher Cengage Learning is in the process of negotiating a restructuring plan with its creditors and may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reports Bloomberg. Cengage CEO...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
In China, almost 90% of people have read books online, but few are satisfied with the quality of ebooks, reports Xinhuanet News. In a survey conducted and published by China Youth Daily...

Monday, 13 May 2013
In the US, a district court has ruled in favour of Apple in a legal dispute over the ‘iBooks’ trademark, reports Apple Insider. The plaintiff, publisher Black Tower Press, had argued that Apple infringed its...