Thursday, 6 December 2012
In the US, Hachette has implemented new ebook pricing terms that are now being adopted by ebook vendors, reports Publishers Weekly. The changes follow the publisher’s decision to settle with...

Tuesday, 4 December 2012
In the UK, literary agency Curtis Brown has partnered with Kindle Direct Publishing and Amazon-owned CreateSpace to launch a digital self-publishing program, reports the Bookseller. The program, which launched some...

Tuesday, 4 December 2012
US author Stephen Platt has won the 2012 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University in Canada for his book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the...

Thursday, 29 November 2012
In the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered Amazon to change the wording of its ‘free’ one-day delivery offer for members of its Prime loyalty program, reports the...

Thursday, 29 November 2012
Bloomsbury UK has pulped 6000 copies of Ann Patchett’s book State of Wonder after copies of the book appeared on bookshelves with the incorrect label ‘Winner of the Orange Prize...

Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The shortlisted titles for the 2012 Costa Book Awards have been announced. You can view the titles shortlisted in each category—first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children’s—on the awards website...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
In the US, Hachette has announced plans to launch an EPUB3 publishing program, starting with 16 titles between November 2012 and March 2013, reports Publishers Weekly. The EPUB3 standard, developed by...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The shortlist for this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Quiddity of Will Self (Sam Mills, Corsair), Noughties (Ben...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
HarperCollins parent company News Corporation has indicated to CBS that it is interested in acquiring the Simon & Schuster business, reports the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ reports that people...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been named the 2012 Businessperson of the Year by US magazine Fortune. Bezos was selected ahead of other well-known CEOs of technology companies, including...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that Kobo UK country manager Phil Wood, who joined Kobo in March 2012, has left the company. Kobo’s executive vice president (EVP) and general manager...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Maggie Shipstead has won the £30,000 (A$45,800) 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel Seating Arrangements. The Guardian reports that Shipstead was one of novelist Zadie Smith’s first students...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (Bodley Head) has won the £20,000 (A$30,400) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. Judges said the...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape (Candace Savage, Greystone Books) has won the C$60,000 (A$57,400) Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canada’s richest award for...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Night author Elie Wiesel has told Israeli news site Haaretz that he is writing a book with US President Barack Obama, reports the Guardian. ‘Obama and I decided to write...