US audiobook fiction up 61.8% in July
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that digital audio sales jumped significantly in the month of July, compared to the same time the previous year, based on total sales...
UK summer paperback fiction sales up 10%
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
In the UK, paperback fiction sales for the 12 weeks from 30 June were up about 10% on the same period in 2023, reports the Bookseller. Bolstered by the success...
Rollback on diverse publishing ‘breathtakingly swift’
Monday, 7 October 2024
Storymix founder Jasmine Richards told the Bookseller’s Children’s Conference in a keynote in the UK on 30 September that the championing of diverse stories in publishing amid the Black Lives Matter...
Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$19,268), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: All My Precious Madness (Mark Bowles, Galley Beggar Press) Tell...
FT Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost)...
Casati wins Glass Bell Award for ‘Clytemnestra’
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In the UK, Costanza Casati has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for Clytemnestra (Michael Joseph). Clytemnestra is Casati’s debut historical novel, described by the publisher as ‘an epic feminist...
Polari Prize 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 30 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2024 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced. Shortlisted titles include: Book prize (£2000, A$3867) Blue Hunger (Viola Di Grado, trans by...
Wolfson History Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 26 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,650), has been announced, reports BookBrunch. The shortlisted books are: Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Joya Chatterji,...
Sage ‘considering’ licensing content for AI
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
In the UK, academic publisher Sage has confirmed the company is considering licensing authors’ content to artificial intelligence companies, reports the Bookseller. A Sage spokesperson told the Bookseller: ‘We have...
Winter wins 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
In the UK, Kate Winter has won the £5000 (A$9736) Klaus Flugge Prize for the book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin). Featuring panoramic fold-out pages and illustrated in watercolour, The Fossil...
National Book Award longlists announced
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In the US, the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced. Longlisted fiction and nonfiction titles include: Fiction Ghostroots (’Pemi Aguda, Virago) Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar, Picador) The...
Wainwright Prize winners announced
Monday, 16 September 2024
In the UK, the 2024 winners of the Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing have been announced. The nature writing prize was awarded to Late Light: The Secret Wonders...
British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...
Audible tests AI voice replica service for narrators
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Audible is ‘inviting a small group of narrators to participate in a beta test that will enable them to create and monetise...
Cundill History Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 9 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which ‘rewards the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The 2024 shortlisted titles are: Judgement at Tokyo: World War II...
Appeals court upholds finding that Internet Archive infringed publisher copyright
Thursday, 5 September 2024
In the US, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision by judge John G Koetl that found the...
Wiley expects to make US$44 million from AI partnership, authors unable to opt out
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
In the US, academic publisher Wiley has revealed it expects to make US$44 million (A$66m) from artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships that allow large language models (LLMs) to be trained on...
Major publishers, authors sue over Florida book ban laws
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
In the US, six major publishers, together with the Authors Guild and several bestselling authors, have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of two provisions of Florida’s recently enacted...
Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, which celebrates ‘the best popular science writing from across the globe’, has been announced, reports BookBrunch....
PRH global sales, earnings up in first half of the year
Thursday, 29 August 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann reported that the publisher’s sales grew 8.5% in the first half of 2024, while operating EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation)...
SoA demands AI firms seek consent, provide ‘appropriate remuneration’ for use of copyright work
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has written to tech companies, demanding they have the consent of authors before using their work in the development of artificial intelligence...
Croucher wins 2024 YA Book Prize
Monday, 26 August 2024
In the UK, Lex Croucher has won the 2024 YA Book Prize for Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (Bloomsbury YA), reports the Bookseller. Described as a ‘masterclass in teen...
German bookselling chain, trade publication to close
Monday, 19 August 2024
In Germany, Weltbild, once one of the country’s largest bookselling operations, is closing down on 31 August, while the German book trade paper BuchMarkt will close on 31 December after...
Booksellers report dramatic sales drop during Olympic Games
Thursday, 15 August 2024
In Paris, booksellers have reported significant sales drops during the 2024 Olympic Games, reports the Bookseller. English-language Abbey Bookshop in the city’s Latin Quarter reported sales on the Monday before...
Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$48,482) award, selected...
Hugo Awards 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The winners of this year’s Hugo Awards, presented annually by the World Science Fiction Convention, have been announced. Among the winners are: Best novel Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh, Orbit)...
HarperCollins audio sales up 18%, overall sales up 6%
Monday, 12 August 2024
HarperCollins parent company News Corp has announced its fourth quarter and annual results. The company reported that its book publishing division saw sales rise 6% for the 2024 fiscal year...
Orbit UK launches horror imprint
Thursday, 8 August 2024
Orbit UK has launched a new horror imprint, Run For It, reports the Bookseller. The imprint is Hachette UK’s first dedicated horror list and shares its name with a new...
‘In Ascension’ wins 2024 Arthur C Clarke Award
Wednesday, 7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports the Guardian. MacInnes’s third novel, In Ascension follows marine biologist...
United Independent Distributors enters administration
Tuesday, 6 August 2024
In the UK, the United Independent Distributors (UID) group, which comprises Marston Book Services, Orca Book Services and Eurospan, and which was acquired by the US-based Independent Publishers Group (IPG)...
