Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, HarperCollins has reached new sales terms with e-tailers, following the settlement of its Department of Justice case, which gave the company and other settling publishers Simon &...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
More than 300 delegates are due to attend the 78th PEN International Congress in Korea, which opened on 11 September and runs until Saturday 15 September. The Congress will include appearances...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, a pilot program run at Indiana University will be expanded to more than 25 institutions after McGraw-Hill Education, Internet2 and Courseload announced they have partnered with EDUCAUSE...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, Cengage Learning, John Wiley and Sons, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill have settled claims with five distributors involving the sale of counterfeit textbooks, reports Publishers Weekly. The five distributors,...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Hachette Book Group in the US announced that Michael Pietsch will succeed David Young as CEO of the US division, reports Publishers Weekly. Young is stepping down to return to...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the UK, analyst Richard Broughton of IHS Screen Digest has predicted that the number of tablets and ereaders in the country will jump from an estimated seven million in 2011...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Following the announcement that it will partner with department store chain John Lewis to sell Nook devices in the UK from October, Barnes & Noble has announced that UK retailers...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
UK supermarket chain Tesco has acquired ebook platform Mobcast for £4.5 million (A$6.9 million), reports the Bookseller. Mobcast was established in 2007 and currently offers 130,000 ebooks. The acquisition follows...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
In the US, consumers who purchased ebooks from Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster between 1 April 2010 and 21 May 2012 will receive a share of approximately US$69 million (A$67.5...

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...