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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tuesday, 30 June 2015
In the US, the Walt Disney Company will combine the division that includes its publishing arm with its interactive media division, reports Digital Book World. Disney Consumer Products, which houses...