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...

Thursday, 14 February 2013
Camilla Long has won the Hatchet Job of the Year Award for her Sunday Times review of Rachel Cusk’s memoir of marital disharmony and divorce Aftermath (Faber). Now in its second year, the award...

Thursday, 14 February 2013
In Canada, Michael Tamblyn has been appointed as chief content officer at ebook provider Kobo. The company said in a statement that Tamblyn’s promotion will make him responsible for ‘content acquisition...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2013 Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Independent Publishing Awards have been announced. Alma Books, John Blake Publishing and last year’s winner Constable & Robinson...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Macmillan Education UK is expanding its presence in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf region, appointing Matthew Hayes to manage the publisher’s operations in the region, reports the...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Self-publishers who are signed up to Bowker’s My Identifers platform in the US are now being offered an ebook conversion service through Data Conversion Laboratory’s (DCL) EPUB on Demand, reports...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has awarded its annual Diamond Dagger award to Lee Child. The CWA presents the award to an author ‘with an outstanding body of...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Following its recent announcement that it would settle with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over its anti-trust lawsuit relating to ebook pricing, Macmillan US has agreed to settle a...

Monday, 11 February 2013
In the US, Macmillan has settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its anti-trust lawsuit relating to ebook pricing, reports Publishers Weekly. The publisher is the last of the...

Monday, 11 February 2013
US judge Denise Cote has approved a settlement that will involve Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster paying close to US$70 million (A$67 million) as part of a case regarding ebook...

Friday, 8 February 2013
In the UK, music retailer HMV will close 66 stores and make 930 of its staff redundant after entering administration in January, reports the Bookseller. The company’s administrators have selected...

Friday, 8 February 2013
Penguin India has launched a new self-publishing platform with the Pearson-owned Author Solutions called Partridge Publishing, reports TeleRead. Penguin India president and chief executive Andrew Phillips said in a statement...

Thursday, 7 February 2013
In the UK, The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton (OUP) has won the top prize in the inaugural Political Book Awards, which were established by bookmaker Paddy Power and...

Thursday, 7 February 2013
International graphic novel distributor Diamond Book Distributors (DBD) saw sales and revenue rise ‘in double digits across the board’ in 2012, reports Publishers Weekly. Kuo-Yu Liang, vice president of sales...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013
In the US, long-delayed book recommendation website Bookish has launched, reports Publishers Weekly. A joint project of Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group USA and Simon & Schuster, the website features...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Amazon has been awarded what appears to be a broad patent on ‘reselling and lending “used” digital goods’, reports GeekWire. A patent filed in 2009 and granted on 29 January...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Apple has released the ‘Breakout Books’ section of its iBookstore to international users. Breakout Books, which showcases ebooks by self-published authors, has been available to Australia and New Zealand iBookstore users since December, and features thousands of...

Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Ebook publisher RosettaBooks will open its first office outside of the US, reports the Bookseller. The New York-based publisher’s first UK office will be based in London and headed by...

Tuesday, 5 February 2013
In the UK, children’s publisher Egmont will launch a new nonfiction imprint for children aged ‘three to teenage’, reports the Bookseller. Red Shed will be headed by Egmont’s publishing director...

Monday, 4 February 2013
In the US, quilting book publisher C&T Publishing will unveil a tween imprint in March, reports Publishers Weekly. FunStitch Studio will be aimed at 8- to 14-year-old readers and will...

Monday, 4 February 2013
In the UK, a new cover for Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has been criticised for portraying the book as ‘glorified chick lit’, reports the Guardian. The cover of the...