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...

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...