Amazon to create ebook marketplace for NYC schools
Friday, 31 July 2015
In the US, the New York City department of education (DOE) is likely to approve a US$30m contract with Amazon to create an ebook marketplace for the city’s 1800 public...
Report finds new media a key threat to the UK book market
Friday, 31 July 2015
A new report warns it is ‘extremely dangerous’ to see ebooks as the key disruptive force in the UK publishing industry, describing the growth of mobile consumption, which reduces the amount...
US fantasy writer launches publishing company
Thursday, 30 July 2015
In the US, fantasy writer and game designer Ed Greenwood is launching a publishing company focussing on fantasy titles called The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG), reports Publishers Weekly. Greenwood is the...
Curtis Brown twitter pitch day attracts more than 2000 pitches
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
In the UK, more than 2000 book projects were pitched online to literary agents Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh as part of the first ‘#PitchCB’ day, reports the Bookseller....
UK survey finds only 1% illegally download ebooks
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
A survey by the UK government has found only 1% of internet users aged 12 and over illegally downloaded at least one ebook between March and May 2015, reports the Guardian....
RITA Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
In the US, the winners have been announced for the 2015 Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners in...
US audiobook sales up 13.5% in 2014
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
In the US, audiobook sales have increased by 13.5% from 2013 to 2014 according to the Audio Publishers Association’s (APA) annual sales survey, reports Library Journal. According to the survey,...
Amazon announces surprise second quarter profit
Monday, 27 July 2015
Amazon has reported a US$92m (A$126m) profit and US$23.19bn (A$31.89bn) revenue in its second quarter ending on 30 June, surprising Wall Street analysts who were predicting revenue would be lower...
Pearson sells ‘Financial Times’, focusing on education business
Friday, 24 July 2015
Pearson has sold the FT Group, which includes the Financial Times (FT), to Japanese newspaper and magazine publisher Nikkei Inc for £844m (A$1780m), reports the Bookseller. Pearson CEO John Fallon...
Free children’s book vending machines placed in US ‘book deserts’
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Airline JetBlue, Random House and author Mary Pope Osborne have placed vending machines stocked with free children’s books in Washington DC communities it calls ‘book deserts’, reports Publishing Perspectives. Under...
HarperCollins launches agent portal in US
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
In the US, HarperCollins has launched an agent portal that will provide access to sales data, royalty statements and anti-piracy measures to agents representing HarperCollins authors. The agent portal will...
Conakry, Guinea announced as World Book Capital City 2017
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Conakry, the capital of Guinea, has been awarded the title of World Book Capital City 2017 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in association with the International...
Survey highlights print book, ebook tax discrepancies
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
A report by the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the Federation of European Publishers has found only 22% of 79 surveyed nations—including Australia—apply the standard Value Added Tax (VAT) or...
Publishing Scotland launches international fellowship program
Friday, 17 July 2015
Scotland’s publishing trade association Publishing Scotland has launched an international fellowship program to increase the exposure of Scottish books internationally and facilitate rights sales, reports the Bookseller. As part of...
Impressive first-day sales for ‘Go Set a Watchman’ in UK and US
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) has recorded impressive first-day sales in the UK and North America. In the UK, Penguin Random House announced Go Set a Watchman’s...
US authors call for antitrust investigation into Amazon
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
In the US, Authors United, a loose coalition who protested Amazon during its 2014 dispute with Hachette US, has asked members to sign a letter calling for the Department of...
Thriller Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
International Thriller Writers (ITW) has announced the winners of the 2015 Thriller Awards. Winning titles include: The Fever (Megan Abbott, Picador) for Best Hardcover Novel; The Weight of Blood (Laura McHugh,...
Authors Guild demands increased royalties from ebooks
Monday, 13 July 2015
In the US, the Authors Guild is asking publishers to pay authors a net royalty rate of up to 50% for ebooks as part of its ‘fair contract initiative’, and is...
The Quarto Group creates direct-to-consumer website
Friday, 10 July 2015
London- and New York-based publisher the Quarto Group has launched a consumer-facing website called QuartoKnows, which will sell direct-to-consumer titles from August, reports the Bookseller. QuartoKnows showcases titles published by...
Davies wins Frank O’Connor Short Story Award
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Welsh author Carys Davies has won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award—the world’s richest prize for a short-story collection, reports the Guardian. Davies won the €25,000 (A$37,312) prize for...
Malala Yousafzai launches #BooksNotBullets campaign
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Nobel laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai, author of I Am Malala (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), has launched the #BooksNotBullets campaign on social media to pressure world leaders to invest in education...
Serpell wins 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Zambia’s Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘The Sack’. Published in the collection Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the...
Man Booker International Prize merges with ‘Independent’ Foreign Fiction Prize
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
The Man Booker International Prize has announced it will merge with the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and move to an annual format, with the prize to be awarded to a...
Newspapers to pre-publish first chapter of ‘Go Set a Watchman’
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal will publish the first chapter of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) online on 10 July before the novel’s release on...
Transworld partners with the ‘Sun’ for ‘Jack Reacher’ week
Monday, 6 July 2015
In the UK, Transworld has partnered with the Sun newspaper to promote Lee Child’s ‘Jack Reacher’ series, reports the Bookseller. The first Jack Reacher Week campaign will run in the...
Comics and graphic novel sales at 20-year high in North America
Friday, 3 July 2015
The sale of graphic novels and periodical comics in North America reached a combined total of US$935m (A$1225m) in 2014, a 7% increase on 2013, reports comics trade news sites ICv2 and...
Scribd makes dramatic cuts to romance list
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Scribd is dramatically reducing the number of romance and erotica titles offered through its subscription service in a move that is believed to prevent romance readers from cannibalising profits, reports...
Fuller wins Desmond Elliott Prize
Thursday, 2 July 2015
In the UK, Claire Fuller’s Our Endless Numbered Days (Penguin) has won the £10,000 (A$20,438) Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction. Fuller’s debut novel was chosen from a shortlist that...
Neurosurgery memoir wins PEN/Ackerley Prize
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
The £3000 (A$6115) PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography has been awarded to neurosurgeon Henry Marsh for his memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and...
Apple loses US court appeal on ebook price-fixing decision
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
In the US, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Judge Denise Cote’s 2013 finding that Apple conspired to fix ebook prices with publishers, reports Publishers Weekly. Cote previously ruled...
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