Monday, 30 March 2015
A new Publishing Technology/OnePoll survey has investigated the reading habits of ‘millenials’ aged between 18-34 years. The survey of 2000 consumers in the US and UK found that 71% had...

Monday, 30 March 2015
In the UK, Strangers Have the Best Candy (Margaret Meps Schulte, Choose Art) has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller. The...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
In the UK, a campaign to promote James Patterson’s work to existing and potential fans has won the adult category at the Best Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards, presented...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
In the UK, online book buying has overtaken in-store buying for the first time in 2014 according to Nielsen Book, reports the Bookseller. Data revealed at Nielsen Book’s annual conference BookInsights...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction has been announced. The seven shortlisted titles are: The Zone of Interest (Martin Amis, Vintage), The Lie (Helen Dunmore,...

Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize have been announced. In the running for this year’s prize, worth £60,000 (approximately A$113,076) are César Aira (Argentina), Hoda Barakat (Lebanon),...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Indian-American author Akhil Sharma has won the 2015 Folio Prize for his novel Family Life (Faber), reports the Guardian. The Folio Prize, worth £40,000 (A$75,865), is open to novels published...

Monday, 23 March 2015
In the US, HarperCollins is working with Twitter to offer users a hardcover, film tie-in edition of Insurgent (Veronica Roth) direct from the publisher at a 35% discount, reports Publishers Weekly....

Friday, 20 March 2015
Japanese internet services company Rakuten, owner of Kobo, has agreed to acquire library digital content supplier OverDrive for US$410m (A$536m). OverDrive said in a statement that it will operate as...

Friday, 20 March 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) will launch a ‘multi-million pound’ Penguin-branded consumer website in the second half of this year, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at the Changing Media...

Thursday, 19 March 2015
Amazon Publishing has expanded into France, hiring a senior editor to work on original manuscripts, reports the Bookseller. Clément Monjou, former editor of the eBouguin.fre ebook blog, has been appointed...

Thursday, 19 March 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched a new recruitment drive on Tumblr to attract the ‘marketers of tomorrow’, reports the Bookseller. Four people will join PRH under...

Thursday, 19 March 2015
The longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards have been announced. Among the awards is the PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize, worth US$25,000 (A$32,277), which is presented to an author whose debut work...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the UK, Faber is launching a two-tiered membership program, which will offer discounts, access to members-only events and special collector’s editions of the publisher’s titles, reports the Bookseller. The...

Monday, 16 March 2015
In the UK, the UK Literacy Association (UKLA) and Booktrust are launching an award for digital ebooks and apps, reports The Bookseller. The Digital Book Award, which is sponsored by...

Friday, 13 March 2015
In the UK, Booksellers Association CEO Tim Godfray has warned that free elending in libraries could cause ‘serious damage’ to the bookselling industry, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at a conference...

Friday, 13 March 2015
In the UK, the longlist been announced for the 2015 Independent Foreign Prize, run by literary charity Booktrust. The prize honours the best work of fiction by a living author ‘translated...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Publishers in the US have reported an increase in revenue in 2014, according to figures from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Statshot program reported in Publishers Weekly. The program surveyed 1209...

Wednesday, 11 March 2015
The finalists have been announced for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, which recognises the best work of fiction published in the preceding year by an American author. The finalists...

Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) has relaunched its Brightly website to encourage parents to help their children to read, after launching in beta in October 2014. The site contains book recommendations, reading...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
HarperCollins US is expanding its Spanish-language program by launching imprints HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins Español will publish around 50 titles each year for distribution in the...

Friday, 6 March 2015
US children’s author Jeff Kinney is opening a bookstore in the town of Plainville, outside of Boston, Massachusetts, reports the Boston Globe. ‘The reason that we wanted to create a bookstore in...

Thursday, 5 March 2015
In the US, small publisher Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is pre-selling a title using a ‘pay what you want’ model, reports Flavorwire. Print copies of poet Noah Eli Gordon’s book...