Wednesday, 6 March 2013
For the third year in a row, US-based organisation VIDA has released figures on how many women and men were reviewed in, or wrote for, various high-profile literary publications. The...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Kevin Powers has won the 2013 PEN Hemingway Award for The Yellow Birds (Hodder). The $10,000 award is presented by PEN New England and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation for a...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
In the UK, two booksellers are running a petition to have Amazon pay more corporation tax, reports the Bookseller. Frances and Keith Smith, who own two bookstores in Warwickshire, have collected close to 100,000...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
In Germany, Deutsche Telekom is launching an ereader called the Tolino Shine in collaboration with booksellers Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel and Club Bertelsmann, reports the Bookseller. The Tolino Shine, which supports...

Monday, 4 March 2013
The winners of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced in the US on 28 February. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Canongate) won the fiction...

Monday, 4 March 2013
In the UK, Scottish independent book publisher Mainstream will cease publishing new titles from the end of this year, reports the Bookseller. The publisher’s Edinburgh office will close on 31...

Friday, 1 March 2013
In the US, Penguin will remain a defendant in the Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust case against Apple over ebook pricing despite the publisher’s settlement with the DOJ in December, reports Publishers...

Friday, 1 March 2013
The Jewish Book Council has announced the finalists for the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, reports the Jewish Book Council. The finalists are: The People of Forever Are...

Thursday, 28 February 2013
In the UK, Sophie Kinsella has received the outstanding achievement award at this year’s Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA)’s Romantic Novel of the Year category awards, reports the Bookseller. Kinsella, who...

Thursday, 28 February 2013
In Canada, three former executives of D&M Publishing have opened a new publishing house focussed on illustrated books called Figure 1 Publishing, reports Publishers Weekly. D&M Publishing was one of Canada's largest independent...

Thursday, 28 February 2013
The European Union will release its initial decision on the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House by 5 April, reports the Bookseller. The EU’s antitrust regulators are currently investigating whether...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
US journalist and author Robert Caro will be named this year’s American Historian Laureate, after winning the 2013 American History Book Prize for the fourth volume of his biography of...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
In the US, Amazon has changed its policy that grants advertising fees to websites that direct readers to free Kindle ebooks, or ‘associates’, the company announced in a statement. Amazon told...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
In the UK, Waterstones will launch a professional qualification in bookselling, reports the Bookseller. The Certificate in Bookselling will be run by the Waterstones Academy in partnership with the University...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
In the US, Barnes & Noble’s chairman and largest shareholder Leonard Riggio has proposed a buy-out of B&N’s bookstore chain, reports Publishers Weekly. Riggio, who holds 30% of the company’s...

Monday, 25 February 2013
In the UK, Little, Brown has announced that it will launch a new digital imprint dedicated to literary fiction and nonfiction called Blackfriars, reports the Bookseller. The imprint will launch...

Friday, 22 February 2013
Hilary Mantel will receive the Bodley Medal at the Oxford Literary Festival in March, reports the BBC. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford...

Friday, 22 February 2013
The inaugural Tokyo International Literary Festival will take place from 1-3 March. English-language writers participating in the festival include J M Coetzee, Geoff Dyer, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer and Pico Iyer....

Thursday, 21 February 2013
Germany will not participate in World Book Night 2013, reports the Bookseller. German World Book Night co-organiser Stiftung Lesen said in a statement that ‘more time was needed to sort...

Thursday, 21 February 2013
In the UK, Pearson has launched Pearson Catalyst, an incubator program to help education technology start-up businesses break into the global education market, reports the Bookseller. The program will target ‘dynamic’ and...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
US author Leslie Klinger has filed a lawsuit against the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, seeking a declaration that Conan Doyle’s famous characters of Sherlock Holmes and John H Watson are in...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
A report on German television has alleged that seasonal workers at Amazon’s warehouses in Germany have been underpaid and mistreated, reports Shelf Awareness. The report accused Amazon-appointed security firm HESS...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
In the UK, Waterstones managing director James Daunt has hit out at Amazon in an interview with the Financial Times, saying that the US retailer’s ‘very business model is a...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
The parent company of Reader’s Digest magazine has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, the equivalent of administration in Australia, reports the Australian. RDA Holding Co has made...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
In the US, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has launched the 2013 Teen Summer Reading Programs website. The website is designed as an information hub for librarians and to brainstorm and exchange ideas for...

Monday, 18 February 2013
In the UK, World Book Day titles will be stocked in supermarkets for the first time this year, reports the Bookseller. As part of a drive to raise the initiative’s...

Monday, 18 February 2013
In the US, Bowker has partnered with Vook to offer ebook creation and distribution services on its My Identifers platform. In addition to accessing ISBN and metadata services on MyIdentifiers.com,...

Friday, 15 February 2013
UK bookseller Waterstones has announced the shortlists for its Children’s Book Prize. You can view the shortlisted titles in each of the categories—picture books, fiction for ages 5-12, and teen...

Friday, 15 February 2013
Gollancz UK has launched the Gollancz Geeks program, giving genre fans the opportunity to read and provide feedback on pre-publication books. Under the slogan ‘Protecting Genre Fiction for the Future!’, the...