Monday, 26 October 2015
The forthcoming Harry Potter play, to open on West End in London next year, has been conceived as ‘the eighth story in the Harry Potter series’, according to the Pottermore...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
A new survey from the Pew Research Centre has found the number of print book readers in the US has dropped slightly from the previous year, while the number of...

Monday, 19 October 2015
In the US, Amazon has filed a lawsuit against more than 1000 people it claims are writing fake reviews on its website, reports the Guardian. The company claims the defendants...

Monday, 19 October 2015
In the UK, the shortlists for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards have been announced. Award categories include Best Adult Digital Book, Best Children’s Digital Book, Best Digital Marketing Campaign, Best...

Friday, 16 October 2015
Swedish author David Lagercrantz has been contracted to write two more novels in the ‘Millenium’ series (Quercus), reports the Bookseller. The fifth novel in the late Stieg Larsson’s series will...

Thursday, 15 October 2015
In the US, the shortlists for the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. On the fiction shortlist are:...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Jamaican novelist Marlon James has won the £50,000 (A$105,550) Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (Bloomsbury). Set across three decades, the 686-page novel ‘uses...

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Kirstin Innes’ debut novel Fishnet (Freight Books) has won this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK. Chairman of the judges Sam Jordison...

Monday, 12 October 2015
The shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (Jonathan Bate,...

Monday, 12 October 2015
In the UK, booksellers have nominated books by Jonathan Bate, Jamie Oliver, David Walliams and Zoe Sugg as the most likely Christmas bestsellers, reports the Bookseller. An industry-wide ‘Books Are My...

Friday, 9 October 2015
Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’. Alexievich was born...

Friday, 9 October 2015
Publisher Bonnier is developing a new ebook and audiobook subscription service in its native Sweden, with plans to expand the service internationally, reports the Bookseller. The Bookbeat service is still in the...

Friday, 9 October 2015
Iran has announced it will boycott this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) after organisers invited author Salman Rushdie to deliver a keynote speech, reports the Guardian. Iran’s foreign ministry said...

Thursday, 8 October 2015
In the UK, novelist Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 ($A31,890) BBC National Short Story Award for his story ‘Briar Road’. Mark Haddon was named the runner-up and received £3000...

Thursday, 8 October 2015
Scottish independent publisher Canongate has reported ‘extremely disappointing’ results for 2014, with turnover down 24% to £7.9m (A$16.8m), according to the Bookseller. CEO Jamie Byng has blamed the results on...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is removing Amazon’s Kindle devices from many of its stores due to ‘pitiful’ sales, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt said the experience ‘feels very...

Tuesday, 6 October 2015
The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced this Thursday 8 October (7pm AEDT), reports the Guardian. Among the favourites at bookmakers Ladbrokes and Paddy Powers...

Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya has revealed plans to increase direct purchases of books from publishers—as opposed to the conventional practice of buying them through wholesale booksellers—in order to better compete...

Monday, 5 October 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Beatlebone (Kevin Barry, Canongate), Acts of the Assassins (Richard Beard, Harvill Secker), Satin...

Monday, 5 October 2015
The London Book Fair (LBF) will take place on 14-16 March in 2017 to avoid a ‘bottleneck’ of book fairs, reports Publishers Weekly. The move will put space between LBF...

Thursday, 1 October 2015
Apple has launched iBooks, iTunes Movies and Apple Music in China, reports Reuters. Paid iBooks start at 0.5 yuan (A$0.11), although free iBooks are also available. iTunes movies range from...

Thursday, 1 October 2015
In the UK, the winners of the 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry have been announced at a ceremony in London. Jamaican-born writer Claudia Rankine won the £10,000 (A$21,570) Forward Prize...

Thursday, 1 October 2015
In the UK, the Folio Prize has announced it will not run in 2016, following The Folio Society’s decision to end its sponsorship of the award. The prize is currently...