Thursday, 18 April 2013
Publishers who attended this year’s London Book Fair have raised concerns about how Amazon enforces territorial restrictions for books listed on its websites, reports both the Bookseller and Publishing Perspectives. According...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
In the UK, Faber & Faber has launched a new nonfiction imprint with the Guardian newspaper, reports the Bookseller. Guardian Faber will commission up to 20 nonfiction works each year...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Granta has revealed its list of 20 promising British authors under 40, the fourth time it has published such a list since it began in 1983. For the first time,...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The 97th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 15 April. The winner in the Fiction category was The Orphan Master’s Son (Adam Johnson, Doubleday). The judges, which included Australian author and 2006 Pulitzer-winner Geraldine Brooks, described The Orphan...

Monday, 15 April 2013
In the UK, restructuring company Hilco has purchased 141 of the 230 HMV stores, including 25 earmarked for closure, and has confirmed that the chain will continue to sell books,...

Friday, 12 April 2013
The latest data from the Association of American Publishers (AAP)’s StatShot program shows that adult trade and children’s and YA sales in the US in 2012 were higher than the...

Friday, 12 April 2013
In the US, the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) has announced its list of 2013 award winners, including the winners of its Cookbook Awards. Twenty-one cookbooks were honoured in...

Thursday, 11 April 2013
Barnes & Noble is relaunching its self-publishing platform as Nook Press, reports Publishers Weekly. Nook Press will replace B&N’s current self-publishing service PubIt!, with the retailer reportedly planning to phase...

Thursday, 11 April 2013
Francesca Segal has won the US$100,000 (A$95,000) Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for 2013 for her debut novel The Innocents (Chatto & Windus), reports the Jewish Book Council. The council also named Ben Lerner as the runner-up and recipient...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
In the UK, Tim Waterstone, founder of the Waterstones chain of bookshops, is set to launch an ebook subscription service, reports the Guardian. Read Petite will take the form of...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
In the US, the latest instalment of the Book Industry Study Group’s Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey shows multi-function tablets have overtaken dedicated ereaders as consumers’ preferred ereading devices...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Ten novels have been shortlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, including five novels that have been translated into English. The shortlisted titles are: City of Bohane by Kevin...

Friday, 5 April 2013
In the UK, a new report shows that fiction titles dominated the ebook market in 2012, with nonfiction and children’s titles increasing slightly in market share, reports the Bookseller. The...

Thursday, 4 April 2013
In the US, John Wiley & Sons has continued to sell off its consumer publishing assets, selling its pets, crafts and general interest lists to Turner Publishing, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Thursday, 4 April 2013
The UK Independent Booksellers Award shortlists have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Among the titles nominated in the adult category are Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)...

Wednesday, 3 April 2013
In the US, a district court has rejected the expansion of the first sale doctrine to cover digital files in the case of Capitol Records vs ReDigi, reports Publishers Weekly. In the case, the...

Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Amazon has acquired book-recommendation website Goodreads amid speculation that the site will soon incorporate a retail component, reports Publishers Weekly. When asked whether Goodreads will start selling books, Russ Grandinetti,...

Thursday, 28 March 2013
Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, has warned that the European market will fall behind if digital publishing is not embraced, reports the Inquirer....

Thursday, 28 March 2013
In the UK, American author Junot Díaz has won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$43,000), reports the Guardian. Díaz’s winning story ‘Miss Lora’, written...

Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Well-known writer Elizabeth Gilbert has asked her Facebook followers to help choose the cover of her new novel The Signature of All Things (Bloomsbury, October). USA Today reports that Gilbert battled Viking, her...

Tuesday, 26 March 2013
The founders of US independent publisher Melville House have announced plans to open a second company in the UK, reports Publishers Weekly. Initially Melville House UK will market titles published by...

Tuesday, 26 March 2013
In the US, Hachette imprint Grand Central Publishing has delayed publication of anthropologist Jane Goodall’s new book due to plagiarism concerns, reports Publishers Weekly. It was found that Seeds of...

Monday, 25 March 2013
In the UK, Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop (Reginald Bakeley, Conari Press) has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller. Bakeley’s book was one...