Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Guardian First Book Award has been announced. This year’s longlist features 11 titles: seven fiction titles and four nonfiction titles. The winner of this year’s...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
E-readers will still be around in the foreseeable future despite a decrease in shipments, claims a new report from New York-based ABI Research. The research company has based its assertion on ‘the...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
As part of a new digital strategy, Random House Canada has launched a new digital-first imprint and an online magazine, reports Publishers Weekly. Both of the ventures are named after...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
HarperCollins UK CEO Victoria Barnsley has predicted that digital sales will account for 50% of the company’s fiction revenue within the next 18 months. In an interview with the Observer, Barnsley...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Barnes & Noble’s Nook business lost US$57 million (approximately A$55 million) in the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year on revenues of US$192 million (A$185 million), reports Digital Book World....

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Barnes & Noble’s Nook digital reading devices and content will be available in the UK by mid-October, the company has announced. This is the first time that B&N has ventured into...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
US digital publishing news site Digital Book World has launched a ‘definitive list of the bestselling ebooks, along with their publishers, prices and the previous week’s rank’. The weekly bestseller...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
In the UK, Pearson has announced plans to move into the higher education college market by offering a business and enterprise degree through a new company to be called Pearson...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
In China, Macmillan Publishers has entered into a joint children’s publishing venture with 21st Century Publishing House. The new venture will be called Macmillan Century Consulting & Service Company, and...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Apple may be the next sponsor of the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize, reports the Sunday Telegraph. Apple is reported to have participated in...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
In the US, McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Key Curriculum, a private company that develops mathematics learning technology for the school and higher education markets, reports Publishers Weekly. A spokesperson for...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
In the US, new research from Bowker Market Research and Publishers Weekly has found that Generation Y—people born between 1979 and 1989—spent the most money on books in 2011, taking...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
HarperCollins is now the largest Christian publisher in the US, after combining its newly acquired Thomas Nelson business with its Zondervan division in a new Christian publishing division, reports Digital...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced an increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate that affects ebooks last month as part of the country’s austerity measures, reports Publishing Perspectives....

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
In the US, federal judge Denise Cote has granted a motion by the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Barnes & Noble to file a ‘friend of the court’ brief as...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
The books section of the San Francisco Chronicle in the US is launching a monthly column devoted to ebooks, reports Publishers Weekly. ‘The E-Reader’ column will not cover any titles...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Philip Jones has been appointed editor of UK trade publication the Bookseller, replacing editor-in-chief Neill Denny. Denny, who has been in the role of editor-in-chief since 2004, said he was...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Random House has announced it is partnering with the television production and distribution company FremantleMedia to ‘develop scripted programming for the US and international markets based on the fiction and...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced that Jose Ramos-Horta will feature in the main program of the festival. Ramos-Horta is a founder of the Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
In the US, the Anderson family, which controls approximately 53% of the stock of chain bookseller Books-A-Million, has withdrawn an offer it made to acquire all the shares in the...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the US, total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to estimates released Wednesday by BookStats, the annual industry sales survey coordinated by the Association of...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Italian publisher RCS Libri has launched a new digital-first imprint which will publish books free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection, reports the Bookseller. The publisher will release Italian and English...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the UK, Bloomsbury has completed its purchase of creative publisher Applied Visual Arts Publishing (AVA) for close to £1.7 million (A$2.57 million), reports the Bookseller. AVA, which was established...

Monday, 23 July 2012
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has launched a new cloud-based ereading platform called Nook for Web, reports Publishers Weekly. The new platform will allow Barnes & Noble customers to...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The latest annual report of the Spanish Publishers Guild has highlighted the tough times currently facing the Spanish book market, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to the report, Spain’s book industry...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it has finalised its acquisition of US-based publisher Thomas Nelson. HarperCollins first announced its intention to acquire the publisher, which produces Christian books, videos and digital...