Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The £60,000 (A$117,600) biennial prize is awarded to a living author, whose body of work is available in...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Folio Society will not renew its sponsorship of The Folio Prize, the annual £40,000 (A$78,360) award for best English-language fiction published in the UK, after completing its two-year agreement...

Friday, 15 May 2015
In the UK, 15 London-based female crime writers have teamed up to launch Killer Women, a collective project that will offer debates, talks, interviews and workshops to the public, reports...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) is partnering with content delivery app Foli to target travellers by offering a selection of free ebooks available in hotels, airports and museums, reports Publishers Weekly....

Thursday, 14 May 2015
PEN America has announced the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the winners are: War of the Whales: A True Story (Joshua Horwitz, S&S), awarded the PEN/E O...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
In the UK, British-Indian writer Neel Mukherjee has won the 2014 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others (Vintage). Mukherjee’s novel, which was also shortlisted for the 2014 Man...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
In the UK, Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, published by crowdfunding platform Unbound, has been awarded the inaugural Book of the Year at the 2015 Bookseller Industry Awards, reports the Bookseller....

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
The winners of the UK’s Bookseller Industry Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Bookselling chain Waterstones won the Book Retailer of the Year Award for its ‘watershed’ year, with judges praising its ‘decision...

Monday, 11 May 2015
In the UK, the Publisher’s Association (PA) Statistics Yearbook has found publishers’ annual sales totalled £4.3bn (A$8.4bn) in 2014, the same as in 2013, reports the Bookseller. The figure combines publishers’...

Friday, 8 May 2015
The European Commission will hold a competition inquiry into the ecommerce sector in the European Union as part of a broader push towards a digital single market, reports the Bookseller....

Friday, 8 May 2015
An international ebook report has found significant disparity in growth rates between English-speaking and non-English-speaking markets, reports the Bookseller. The 2015 Global E-book Report, compiled by Ruediger Wischenbart, shows strong...

Thursday, 7 May 2015
Canadian author Emily St John Mandel has won the 2015 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction writing for her novel Station Eleven (Picador). St John Mandel’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six,...

Monday, 4 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize, an annual award of £10,000 (A$19,361) for ‘a distinguished work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place’, has...

Friday, 1 May 2015
A group of US publishers will donate more than US$250 million (A$316.25 million) worth of ebooks for use by low-income students as part of a new digital reading initiative launched by...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
In Canada, Kobo has signed its first publishing deal, acquiring a book by Kevin Donovan on radio presenter Jian Gomeshi, who is awaiting trial in Canada for sexual assault, reports the Bookseller. Kobo has...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2015 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
In the UK, The Iceberg by Marion Coutts (Atlantic Books) has won the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize, worth £30,000 (A$57,745), for the best new work of fiction or nonfiction centred...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
In the UK, the estate of Agatha Christie has launched a campaign to find the world’s favourite Agatha Christie book to coincide with the author’s 125th birthday, reports the Guardian....

Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Australian author Peter Carey and five other writers will no longer be attending next month’s PEN Literary Gala to protest the awarding of PEN’s annual Freedom of Expression Courage award...

Monday, 27 April 2015
In the US, Scholastic has signed a deal to sell its educational technology business to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reports Publishers Weekly. The business, which provides digital products and services to...

Monday, 27 April 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the Encore Award for best second novel has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Getting Colder (Amanda Coe, Virago); Reasons She Goes to the...

Monday, 27 April 2015
In the UK, Scholastic has stopped gender-labelling its books after receiving a complaint from a young reader, reports the Guardian. In response to a petition from an eight-year-old reader arguing that ‘no...

Friday, 24 April 2015
A US federal court has found two website operators guilty of intentionally infringing the copyright of up to 16,000 publishers, in a case brought by academic publisher Elsevier and supported...

Friday, 24 April 2015
Hachette US and Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson have begun legal proceedings against the UK publisher of Jonasson’s bestselling book The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared...