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...

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...