Friday, 26 April 2013
In the UK, a petition by two independent UK booksellers to have Amazon pay more corporation tax has attracted more than 150,000 signatures, reports the Guardian. Frances and Keith Smith,...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The 33rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been announced, recognising the ‘best books’ published in the US in 2012, across 10 categories. Among the winners were The Passage...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the six finalists for this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The titles shortlisted for the fiction category are:...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
A German court has ruled that used ebooks cannot be resold by owners, reports Publishers Weekly. In its decision the German District Court of Bielefeld ruled that ‘unlike physical works,...

Monday, 22 April 2013
The American Booksellers Association has announced the winners of the 2013 Indies Choice Book Awards. The prize for Adult Fiction Book of the Year went to Louise Erdrich for The...

Monday, 22 April 2013
Penguin is close to resolving ebook price-fixing charges in the US and EU ahead of its planned merger with Random House, reports Publishers Weekly. In the US, where Penguin is...

Friday, 19 April 2013
Authors Hilary Mantel and George Saunders have been included in TIME Magazine’s 2013 list of 100 influential people. Mantel, who has dominated recent literary awards with her second Thomas Cromwell...

Friday, 19 April 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize, an annual award of £10,000 (A$14,850) for ‘a distinguished work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place’, has...

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)...