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...

Monday, 13 May 2013
Kobo has created an online game contest featuring three new ebooks from one of its self-published authors to tie in with Dan Brown’s new book Inferno, which was released worldwide...

Friday, 10 May 2013
In the US, book discovery platform Riffle has opened to the general public, reports Shelf Awareness. The platform, which was initially expected to launch during 2012, offers book recommendations to...

Friday, 10 May 2013
In the US, TechCrunch has reported that Microsoft is offering to pay Barnes & Noble US$1 billion (approximately A$1 billion) to purchase the digital assets of its Nook Media division....

Thursday, 9 May 2013
World Book Night in the US, which was held for the second time on 23 April, has resulted in a 32% increase in year-to-date sales for the books included in...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
The US Senate has approved a bill to allow states to collect taxes from high-earning online retailers, reports Publishers Weekly. In a vote of 69 to 27, the senate approved...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
In the US, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has announced the finalists for this year’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, worth US$15,000 (A$14,644). The shortlisted titles...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
American author and poet Benjamin Alire Saenz has received the US$15,000 (A$14,600) PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize for Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, published by small Texas-based press Cinco Puntos. The annual...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
In the US, author Harper Lee is suing her former literary agent, reports the Guardian. The 87-year-old author of Pulitzer prize-winning book To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints), who normally avoids media...

Monday, 6 May 2013
In the UK, Simon & Schuster has entered into a new partnership with Box of Awesome, a company that sends out free boxes of books, music and films to children across...

Monday, 6 May 2013
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...

Friday, 3 May 2013
British author Chris Beckett has won the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award for Dark Eden (Atlantic Books). Beckett’s novel, which tells the story of an abandoned colony on a distant...

Friday, 3 May 2013
HarperCollins has expanded its HarperCollins 360 program to the UK, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins 360 aims to make all HarperCollins titles available through all of its subsidiaries, where it holds...

Thursday, 2 May 2013
In the US, three authors are suing self-publishing service Author Solutions and its parent company Penguin, reports Publishers Weekly. The authors, who are seeking class action status, allege in their...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced a number of authors attending this year’s festival, which will run from 11-15 October. International authors include: Lionel Shriver (US); Irvine Welsh (UK); Danny Morrison...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Obooko, a website offering free ebooks, is set to launch in the UK, reports the Bookseller. A UK-based company that has operated in the US market for the past three years, Obooko.com offers thousands...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Two of China’s largest online booksellers made thousands of ebooks available to download for free earlier this month, reports the Bookseller. DangDang.com, which claims to be China’s ‘biggest specialist online...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Pushkin House Russian Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. Shortlisted titles are: Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of...

Monday, 29 April 2013
Don DeLillo has won the inaugural US Library of Congress Prize for American Literature, reports the Washington Post. DeLillo is the author of plays, essays, short stories and novels that...

Monday, 29 April 2013
Amanda Knox’s account of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher will not be published in the UK due to fears of legal action, reports the Guardian. According to the...