Monday, 25 March 2013
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is reorganising its children’s imprints after changing its logo late last year, reports Publishers Weekly. From the second quarter of 2014, HMH will use Houghton...

Friday, 22 March 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) is giving authors information about the piracy of their own works, reports Publishers Weekly. S&S receives information about infringement and unauthorised copies of digital,...

Thursday, 21 March 2013
In France, president François Hollande has outlined possible measures to support the French book industry, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at a reception at the Élysée Palace before the opening of the Paris...

Thursday, 21 March 2013
In the UK, Hachette has created the new position of consumer insight director, and appointed current vice-president of global consumer insight at EMI Music, Louisa Livingston, to the role, reports...

Wednesday, 20 March 2013
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that the doctrine of first sale, which allows for ‘legally acquired copyrighted works to be resold by their owners’, does apply to...

Wednesday, 20 March 2013
In the UK, Random House imprint Jonathan Cape Children’s Books has announced it will publish a list of new children’s fiction, reports the Bookseller. Jonathan Cape has previously only published...

Tuesday, 19 March 2013
In the UK, Sony has ended its long-running 20p ebook promotion, prompting Amazon to also raise its prices for the same books, reports the Bookseller. When Sony began the promotion,...

Tuesday, 19 March 2013
In the US, Penguin has filed a motion demanding a jury trial in the ebook price-fixing cases filed by the states and the consumer class action, reports Publishers Weekly. Penguin...

Tuesday, 19 March 2013
In the US, the latest consumer research from Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has found that a rise in ereading in the US and UK over the last...

Monday, 18 March 2013
Amazon has released the first title under its new literary imprint Little A, reports Publishers Weekly. The Blue Book by A L Kennedy is the first title to by Little...

Monday, 18 March 2013
In the US, Judge Jed Rakoff has set an aggressive schedule for the class action lawsuit filed by three bookstores against Amazon and the big six publishers, telling the parties that...

Friday, 15 March 2013
In the UK, Oxford University Press has been named Publisher of the Year at the APS Awards, reports the Bookseller. The Booksellers Association hosted its annual Academic, Professional and Specialist...

Friday, 15 March 2013
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize for The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books). This is the second time the Man Asian Literary Prize has been...

Thursday, 14 March 2013
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has endorsed EPUB 3 as the ‘preferred standard format for representing HTML and other web content for distribution as single-file publications’, the IPA said in a...

Thursday, 14 March 2013
In the US, Apple has filed a patent application to create a marketplace for used digital content items, reports paidContent. Apple’s proposed patent would allow one user to transfer access to...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK, have been announced. Eight books have been...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
UK booksellers Waterstones and Foyles are offering books with extra chapters and exclusive bonus material in a bid to lure book buyers away from online retailers such as Amazon, reports...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
In the US, Random House has made changes to its author contracts for new digital imprints following criticism from author groups, reports Publishers Weekly. The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA),...

Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has entered into a new distribution partnership with Hachette in several international markets, reports Publishers Weekly. The partnership includes Latin America, South America, Asia and Europe, but...

Tuesday, 12 March 2013
In the UK, the winners of the 2013 Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Independent Publishing Awards have been announced, with Bloomsbury taking out the overall award. Bloomsbury Publishing’s academic and professional division...

Tuesday, 12 March 2013
In the US, the Authors Guild and the American Publishers Association have objected to Amazon’s bid to administer a number of ‘generic’ top-level internet domains, including .book, reports CNet. The organisations...

Friday, 8 March 2013
UK publisher and Conservative Party politician Iain Dale has used a speech at the Independent Publishers Guild conference to hit out at large booksellers such as WH Smith, Waterstones and...

Friday, 8 March 2013
The finalists of the 25th Lambda Literary Awards, known also as the ‘Lammys’, have been announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay,...

Thursday, 7 March 2013
The longlists for two international awards for books translated into English have been announced this week. In the UK, the longlist for the Independent Foreign Prize, run by literary charity Booktrust,...

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Following reports that the BBC has sold its majority stake in Lonely Planet, the BBC has made a statement denying that any deal has been done. A spokesman for BBC...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
A New York law firm has said it is investigating self-publishing platform Author Solutions for ‘deceptive practices’, reports Shelf Awareness. Law firm Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart said on its website that it...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
In the US, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has announced the winners of the inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes, worth US$1.35 million (A$1.32 million), reports Publishers Weekly. The...