Wednesday, 9 January 2013
In the UK, sales of print books reached a three-year high in the week before Christmas, reports the Bookseller. According to data from Nielsen BookScan, £75.4 million (approximately A$115.2 million)...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Pearson has invested US$89.5 million (approximately A$85 million) in US bookseller Barnes & Noble’s ebook device and retail brand Nook Media ‘in order to gain favourable distribution for its education...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
In the UK, a sponsor has been found for the £40,000 (A$61,241) Literature Prize, which was announced in 2011 by Aitken Alexander managing director and agent Andrew Kidd, reports the Bookseller....

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
South Korean literature will be the focus of the 2014 London Book Fair (LBF), with the country selected for the fair’s Market Focus program, reports the Bookseller. The Market Focus...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Following the news earlier this month that ebook vendors are now adopting new ebook pricing terms from Hachette in the US, Publishers Weekly reports that Simon & Schuster has also...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Riverdale Avenue Books (RAB), a new US ebook and audiobook publisher, will launch on 17 December with two nonfiction titles, reports Publishers Weekly. Literary agent and publisher Lori Perkins and...

Friday, 7 December 2012
London’s Foyles bookshop has partnered with the Bookseller to invite customers and industry experts to help design a ‘bookshop of the future’ for the 21st century. Located at 113-119 Charing...

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...