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...

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...