Wednesday, 14 November 2012
French authorities have demanded Amazon pay back taxes worth US$252 million (approximately A$242 million), reports Inside Retail. According to a document filed by Amazon to the US Securities and Exchange...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
In the UK, Bloomsbury has announced academic imprints including Continuum and Bristol Classical Press will be rebranded as Bloomsbury. The publisher will also launch a new academic area on its...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
In the UK, director of the Quarto Group Laurence Orbach has left the company, with Tim Chadwick appointed in his place, reports the Bookseller. ‘The positions of CEO and chairman,...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Bookouture is a new digital publishing imprint being launched by Oliver Rhodes, who was previously based at Harlequin UK working on marketing, design and imprint strategy. Specialising in ‘entertaining women’s...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The titles shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award have been announced. The shortlisted titles are Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Before He Stole My Ma (Kerry Hudson, Chatto...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The organisers of World Book Night have announced the titles chosen for the event’s US list. Authors with works selected include Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Paulo Coelho, Tina Fey, John...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Book Expo America (BEA) events director Steve Rosato has announced that the book fair will again host consumers for the final day of the event in 2013, however Publishers Weekly...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Sony has launched an iOS reading app. The software company has elected not to include access to its ebookstore in the app, thereby avoiding giving Apple a percentage of purchases....

Thursday, 8 November 2012
In the UK, Pan Macmillan has announced it will begin offering creative writing tutoring, reports the Bookseller. The publisher will begin running events called Notebook Sessions, later this month. ‘We’re...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Steve Coll, imprint) has won the £30,000 (A$46,000) Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Coll’s title beat shortlisted works...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Macmillan Dictionaries will only be available online from the new year, reports the Bookseller, which said Macmillan Education was currently printing the final ever physical copies of the reference works....

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The novel 419 by Will Ferguson (Penguin) has won the C$50,000 (A$48,000) Scotiabank Giller Prize. Ferguson’s novel was chosen by judges Roddy Doyle, Gary Shteyngart and Anna Porter from a...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Random House parent company Bertelsmann has announced it has agreed to purchase all shares in Random House Mondadori, its trade book publisher in Spain and Latin America. Random House Mondadori was...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
In Canada, Thomas Allen editorial director Janice Zawerbny has begun taking steps to develop a literary award that will recognise fiction written by Canadian women. For now, the prize is...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
In the US, HarperCollins has signed an agreement with distributor RR Donnelly that ‘will create one centralised warehouse that will serve as the distribution site for all [HarperCollins US] titles,’...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Vintage) has won the 2012 Independent Booksellers’ Book Prize in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The children’s prize went...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Amazon has reported a third quarter net loss of US$274 million (approximately A$264 million) on a sales increase of 27%, to US$13.8 billion (approximately A$13.3 billion), reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Penguin US has invited independent booksellers to sign up to a new partnership program, the details of which are being kept confidential, which is designed to ‘increase sales and reduce returns...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
In the UK, Profile Books has acquired independent publisher Tindal Street Press, reports the Bookseller. Tindal Street will become an imprint of Profile Books from 1 November, and will be...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Kobo has launched an ebookstore in South Africa and announced a new partnership with South African retailer Pick n Play. The ebook provider said in a statement on 30 October...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Pearson has announced it has acquired online learning services company EmbanetCompass for US$650 million (approximately A$633 million). In a statement, the publisher said the acquisition built on Pearson’s ‘leading position...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
In the US, CEO of publisher and distributor Perseus Books Group David Steinberger has announced that the company has exceeded its financial goals for the financial year, reports Publishers Weekly....

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The Man Group, sponsor of the Man Booker Prize, will not continue its sponsorship of the Asian Literary Prize after this year’s prize is awarded in March next year, reports the...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Harlequin will launch a new contemporary romance imprint in the US next year called Kiss, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint, which Harlequin describes as ‘fun, flirty and sensual romances’, will...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The financially troubled Canadian Booksellers Association has decided at its annual general meeting to ‘explore becoming a division’ of the country’s retail council after members were asked to vote on...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Microsoft has announced its new tablet computer, to be called Surface, will be priced at US$499 in the US. ‘The least expensive of its Surface tablets matches the entry-level price...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
In the US, HarperCollins romance imprint Avon Books has announced the launch of a Facebook app that ‘targets the romance reader, offering an extensive list of sample excerpts from Avon...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The winners of the final three Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers were revealed at a ceremony in London on 18 October. The CWA Gold Dagger was awarded to Gene Kerrigan for...