Wednesday, 2 May 2012
In the US, a federal judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit against Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson and his publisher Penguin Group (USA), declaring claims that Mortenson lied...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Kobo vice-president Todd Humphrey has confirmed that the ebook retailer and provider plans to expand into Brazil this year, reports the Bookseller. Humphrey has confirmed that Kobo is working with...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has creating a new subsidiary for its digital businesses and college bookstores in partnership with Microsoft, reports Publishers Weekly. The venture is temporarily named...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The British Library has acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a seventh-century manuscript believed to be the earliest intact European book, for £9 million (A$14million). The money was raised during the largest fundraising...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
American etextbook platform CourseSmart has announced that while its focus remains core textbooks, it is looking to expand into trade titles soon, in the UK and the US. The platform, which is owned by publishers Pearson, Cengage,...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Slap, the television adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' novel of the same name (A&U), has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award in the...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
According to Reuters the desert trading town of Timbuktu has been overrun with rebels from the Tuareg militia since 1 April, prompting librarians, scholars and citizens to hide away thousands...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
As part of its National Reading Plan, the Catalan Government Railways has placed posters with QR codes linking to the first chapters of popular novels on its trains in a...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Tom Doherty Associates, publisher of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape and Tor Teen imprints and subsidiary of Macmillan US, has announced that by July, its entire list of ebooks will be...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
In the US, John Wiley & Sons has filed lawsuits against four individuals over alleged illegal downloading of its titles, reports the BBC. The suits are based on the use...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Fourth Estate) was shortlisted for the first Chautauqua Prize. Sponsored by the Chautauqua Institution, NY, the prize, ‘celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Hachette Livre has sold the ebook distribution platform that it acquired in 2008, reports the Bookseller. The publisher sold the Numilog platform to its founder and CEO Denis Zwirn earlier...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
In the US, Scholastic has begun beta testing of its Storia ebook platform after more than 18 months of development, and plans to officially launch the platform in the second...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Vatican library intend to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and put them online for use by scholars and...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
A New York-based thief responsible for stealing and selling valuable library books has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. The New York Post reports that Andrew Hanson took dozens of books...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Electric Literature, a US-based independent publisher, will release the inaugural issue of its new digital literary magazine Recommended Reading in May. Recommended Reading will be a free digital magazine delivering...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Following lawsuits regarding fraudulency and deception, Greg Mortenson, the author of Three Cups of Tea, published in Australia by Penguin, has been ordered to reimburse the charity he established to assist...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
The Bookseller reports that 'at least two of the big six publishers in the US are refusing to renew contracts with Amazon.com, with the giant internet retailer said to be...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Yahoo has filed US patent applications for ebook advertising systems which suggest the company is investigating revenue opportunities from ebooks ads. According to Yahoo’s patent applications, users could be offered...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Amazon has launched a new Kindle bookstore dedicated to Spanish-language titles for its US-based customers. eBooks Kindle en Español, which operates within Amazon’s existing Kindle store in the US, features...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
UK author William Boyd (Restless, Any Human Heart) has been chosen by the Ian Fleming estate to write the next official James Bond novel. Boyd is the third author in...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Bowker, the US parent company of Thorpe-Bowker, which publishes Bookseller+Publisher, has announced it has merged its US-based PubTrack Consumer brand with its UK-based Book Marketing Limited business, under a new...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Toronto’s 2300 library workers have voted to accept terms of a new contract, ending strike action that had lasted almost two weeks. Workers walked off the job on 19 March,...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) has digitised and put online its archives of Albert Einstein's papers in time to mark the 133rd anniversary of the great scientist’s birth. The...

Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Ebook website Bilbary has launched in America, with founder Tim Coates announcing that US libraries participating in his service could earn a share of the income from Bilbary ebook sales...

Wednesday, 28 March 2012
This month members of the American Library Association (ALA) will vote online for the association’s key leadership positions. The ALA has two presidential candidates: Gina A Millsap, CEO of the...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Ingram Content Group has announced a new licensing agreement with EPAC Technologies and the acquisition of assets of two EPAC print facilities in the US, as well as the acquisition of...