Thursday, 14 June 2012
New legislation in Israel will ban booksellers from selling books for less than the list price during the first 18 months after publication. This will end book discounting and three-for-one deals at...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Social ebook reading app Readmill has announced the launch of ‘Library’ and ‘Send to Readmill’—cloud-based features that give customers an easier buying experience from independent publishers and retailers. Readmill has partnered...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Bowker has released its annual report on US print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books in Print database. Based on figures from US publishers, Bowker reports that traditional print book...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
In the US, Penguin and Macmillan have formally responded to the Department of Justice (DOJ) anti-trust lawsuit, rejecting claims that they conspired with other publishers and Apple to charge higher...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Hachette’s Headline division will launch a new literary imprint called Tinder Press in 2013, reports the Bookseller. The imprint plans to publish between 10 and 12 titles each year, and...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
In the US, Hachette has launched a Facebook application designed to allow users to share book excerpts of upcoming titles. The publisher and its authors will use the ChapterShare app...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Ingram Content Group president and CEO Skip Prichard will leave his position on 8 June and chairman John Ingram will take over as CEO. Prichard joined Ingram in 2007 and...

Tuesday, 29 May 2012
UK publishers Canongate and Faber will launch an audiobook co-publishing venture later this year, reports the Bookseller. Under the arrangement, Canongate will handle the sales and production of the audio...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
In the UK, mobile services company Orange will end its sponsorship of the Women’s Prize for Fiction after the presentation of this year’s award, reports the Bookseller. Orange has sponsored...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
In the US, Simon & Schuster has joined Hachette and HarperCollins in settling the antitrust lawsuit filed by a group of US states over ebook pricing earlier this year, reports...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Kobo has announced it is now licensed to sell Harry Potter ebooks. Like all booksellers licensed to sell the ebooks, Kobo can offer the titles on its platform but they...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Rakuten, the Japanese owner of Kobo, has led a US$100 million (A$102 million) investment round in the image-based social network site Pinterest, reports the Financial Times. ‘They use beautiful graphics very...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
In the US, new consumer research has found that ebook consumers’ preference for tablets instead of dedicated ereaders is accelerating. The second installment in Volume Three of the Book Industry...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The UK Government has announced plans to make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online for free in two years, reports the Guardian. The plans, which were announced by...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Lillian Goldman Library at Yale Law School has gone live with the Sierra Services Platform created by Innovative. Sierra is built on an open-systems architecture that provides a library with...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Harvard Crimson reports that 65 Harvard University Library employees have accepted early retirement packages as part of the Library’s Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher,...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Libraries in the US states of Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin have chosen not to stock Fifty Shades of Grey, the trilogy of erotic novels by EL James, due to its...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David have been awarded the ‘Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song’, which celebrates artists whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting song as...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
The city of Norwich, in Norfolk in England, has been named a City of Literature by the United Nation’s cultural arm UNESCO. Norwich joins five other UNESCO Cities of Literature,...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
In France, Hachette Livre has dropped the retail prices for ebooks to the level of the paperback editions of approximately 2000 literary titles published in hardback, reports the Bookseller. According...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Carolyn Anthony, director of the Skokie Public Library in Illinois, has been elected the 2013-2014 president of the Public Library Association (PLA) in America.  Anthony will become PLA president-elect at...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
A group of library users in the US has created a online petition that aims to communicate to publishers ‘that readers want books, in all formats, from libraries’. The petition states...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
In the US, the Anderson family, the controlling shareholders in the Books-A-Million retail chain, have proposed to buy out the company's shareholders and take the chain private, reports Publishers Weekly. In a non-binding...

Monday, 7 May 2012
The University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji has launched a digital archive of its research library in order to collect, promote and disseminate the research outputs of the...

Monday, 7 May 2012
Throughout May, the California State Library in Sacramento will celebrate the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge with a display of related books and ephemera in the library’s California...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Ingram announced in April that it will partner with South African bookseller Van Schaik to provide etextbooks via its VitalSource platform. Van Schaik, which has 55 stores in South Africa...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The University of Minnesota has launched an online project to source and catalogue free ‘open-source’ textbooks for students. It’s part of a national effort across the US to offer cheaper...