Tuesday, 23 March 2021
In the US, the recipients of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$165,000 (A$213,000) each, have been announced. This year’s recipients are US playwrights Michael R Jackson and Nathan Alan Davis...

Monday, 22 March 2021
In the UK, publishing staff are predicting a 50-50 split between home and office working in the future, while many feel ‘crushed, tired, unfocused and lacking in motivation’ after a...

Friday, 19 March 2021
In the UK, the shortlists for this year's CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, celebrating outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration respectively, have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The works...

Thursday, 18 March 2021
BolognaBookPlus, the general publishing conference running in parallel with the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, has announced a new rights and licensing training event to take place on the eve of...

Friday, 12 March 2021
Orders from the EU for UK books are down by around 43% since the outbreak of Covid-19 and Brexit, a freight forwarding company has told the IPG International Publishing Forum,...

Tuesday, 9 March 2021
This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair will take place as a hybrid digital–physical event from 20–24 October, under the motto of ‘re:connect’, reports the Bookseller. The fair, which will charge ‘significantly’...

Thursday, 18 February 2021
In the US, full-year data for 2020 shows bookstore sales fell 28.3% from 2019, according to preliminary estimates from the US Census Bureau, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookstore sales were down...

Monday, 15 February 2021
In the UK, the Publishers Association’s (PA) latest annual workforce survey has found representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups in the industry has ‘stalled’ at 13% for...

Monday, 8 February 2021
In the UK, the top six trade publishers recorded a total 15.5% rise in ebook sales in 2020, the first double-digit percentage bump in seven years, reports the Bookseller. Collectively,...

Thursday, 4 February 2021
In the UK, a group of current and former Waterstones staff is calling on the bookselling chain to top-up furloughed booksellers’ pay to the minimum wage, after accounts showed the...

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
In the US, the Authors Guild, Open Markets Institute and five other writers’ groups have sent a letter to the Department of Justice, asking the government to block Penguin Random...

Friday, 29 January 2021
In the UK, Hachette, Pan Macmillan and a number of literary agencies will run their own digital rights fairs in March, following the rescheduling of the London and Bologna book...

Monday, 25 January 2021
In the UK, Nielsen BookScan has estimated the 2020 print book market rose 5.2% in volume and 5.5% in value compared to 2019, reports the Bookseller. BookScan used its Books...

Friday, 22 January 2021
In the UK, indie publishers are struggling with increased costs and delays caused by Brexit, reports the Bookseller. Among the most pressing is the extra costs from increased bureaucracy, while...

Thursday, 21 January 2021
South Korean internet platform Naver will purchase online social writing and reading platform Wattpad for more than US$600 million (A$775 million) in cash and stock, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). Naver,...