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...

Thursday, 23 April 2015
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched a new consumer-focused website that unifies the online presence of Penguin and Random House, reports Publishers Weekly. PenguinRandomHouse.com includes links to buy...

Thursday, 23 April 2015
Starting this week, Goodreads will provide free audio samples for 180,000 titles through a new ‘Listen’ icon on its website, reports DBW. The samples will be taken from the digital catalogue of...

Wednesday, 22 April 2015
In the US, a new bookstore has opened in Florida that is dedicated to books by self-published authors, reports Publishers Weekly. Gulf Coast Bookstore, run by self-published authors Patti Brassard...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York on 20 April. The Fiction award was presented to All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (HarperCollins)—‘an imaginative and...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Two authors and a fanzine shortlisted for the Hugo Awards have withdrawn their work, claiming that alleged right-wing activists are skewing the voting process, reports the Bookseller. The awards, which...

Monday, 20 April 2015
Authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Haruki Murakami are on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In Time, Radhika Jones writes that Adichie’s ‘greatest...

Monday, 20 April 2015
The American Booksellers Association has announced the winners of the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E B White Read-Aloud Awards, as voted for by independent booksellers in the...

Friday, 17 April 2015
A book about joy by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu was one of the ‘buzz books’ at this year’s London Book Fair, reports the Bookseller. The Book of...

Thursday, 16 April 2015
A new report investigating the progress towards greater cultural diversity in UK publishing has been critical of the lack of representation of black and Asian writers and publishers, reports the...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
HarperCollins has announced it will expand its international publishing program with the formation of four new international offices and the acquisition of thriller author Karin Slaughter in a multi-language four-book...

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Outline...

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
The ‘Do You Love Your Publisher?’ survey, which asked writers about their experiences with publishers, has highlighted a need for increased communication, reports the Bookseller. The survey found that 75% of writers...