Wednesday, 2 November 2016
In the US, reading subscription service Scribd has expanded its content to include magazines, with subscribers to have full access to Time, New York, Fortune and The Atlantic magazines among others,...

Monday, 31 October 2016
Papego, a ‘mobile reading app designed to bridge the gap between mobile and print books’, has been named ‘startup of the year’ at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishing...

Monday, 24 October 2016
A new literary prize has been launched that comes with a US$100,000 (A$131,480) publishing deal with Cambridge University Press, reports the Guardian. The biennial Nine Dots Prize, which is funded...

Tuesday, 18 October 2016
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 10,...

Monday, 17 October 2016
In the UK, Hachette has used its annual end-of-year letter to authors to announce a new more regular, clearer and detailed royalty system following consultation with agents, reports the Bookseller....

Friday, 14 October 2016
US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. Dylan was announced as the winner...

Thursday, 13 October 2016
In the UK, HarperCollins has launched an online events platform that is open to all publishers and events organisers, reports the Bookseller. Events featured on the BookGig site are from across...

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
In Ireland, a publisher’s decision to charge writers €100 (A$147) per manuscript submission, except those received from a recognised literary agent, has drawn criticism from industry association Publishing Ireland, reports...

Monday, 10 October 2016
Books sales in Ireland are up approximately 20% this year compared to the previous year, with the largest growths coming from nonfiction and children’s books, reports the Irish Times. According...

Friday, 7 October 2016
Canada has been chosen at the guest of honour at the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishing Perspectives. ‘The Canadian publishing industry has worked together for the past three years...

Friday, 7 October 2016
In the US, the shortlists for the 2016 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. On the fiction shortlist are:...

Wednesday, 5 October 2016
In the US, the National Book Foundation has named five debut fiction writers under the age of 35 ‘whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape’....

Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Debut British author K J Orr has won the £15,000 (A$25,070) BBC National Short Story Award for her story ‘Disappearances’, featured in her collection Light Box (Daunt Books). The story,...

Tuesday, 4 October 2016
In the US, 11 new writers have made the Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Most Powerful Authors’ 2016 list. Among the first-time listees are Ernest Cline (12th), whose science-fiction novel Ready Player One...

Monday, 3 October 2016
Apple has released an exclusive enhanced ebook edition of George R R Martin’s A Game of Thrones to mark the 20th anniversary of the novel’s first publication, reports the Guardian....

Thursday, 29 September 2016
Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan has won the US$40,000 (A$52,010) prize for best novel at the Emerging Voices awards in New York for his novel Man Tiger (Text), reports the Financial...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
In Canada, the shortlist for the C$100,000 (A$98,820) Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 for the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English has been announced. The shortlisted works...

Monday, 26 September 2016
Video game developer Ubisoft is launching an in-house publishing initiative that will release two books in November in the US based on its Assassin’s Creed franchise, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Friday, 23 September 2016
In the UK, a new study into the media consumption of pre-schoolers has found parents spend on average £6 (A$10.20) per month on books for boys, 25% less than the...

Friday, 23 September 2016
In the UK, the 2016 longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The 10 longlisted titles are: Second-hand Time (Svetlana Alexievich,...