Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints), will publish her second book in July, reports Publishers Weekly. Go Set a Watchman, published by HarperCollins in the US...

Tuesday, 3 February 2015
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced its awards for children’s and young adult literature, including the Printz, Newbery, Caldecott and Stonewall. The Michael L Printz Award for excellence in...

Monday, 2 February 2015
Amazon has released fourth-quarter and full-year figures, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, the online retailer’s sales increased 20% to US$88.99 billion (A$1.14 billion), but operating income was only US$178...

Monday, 2 February 2015
Simon & Schuster US has launched North Star Way, an imprint and service to help authors to build their public profile, said the company in a statement. North Star Way...

Friday, 30 January 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted titles are: The Girl with All the Gifts...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Anne Enright has been appointed the inaugural laureate of Irish fiction, reports the Bookseller. As part of the role, which is worth €150,000 (A$218,630) over its three-year term, Enright will...

Thursday, 29 January 2015
In China, the government has introduced measures that require authors to provide their real names when they publish online, reports the New York Times. Under the new guidelines on online...

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
In the UK, Helen Macdonald’s H is For Hawk (Vintage) has won the £30,000 (A$57,460) Costa Book of the Year award after previously winning the Biography category. The judges described Macdonald’s...

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
UK supermarket chain Tesco will close its ebook platform blinkbox Books at the end of February after failing to reach an agreement to sell the platform to Waterstones, reports the Bookseller....

Friday, 23 January 2015
Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri has won the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel The Lowland (Bloomsbury). Lahiri’s novel was selected from a shortlist of five to...

Thursday, 22 January 2015
Junot Díaz’s 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Faber) has been voted in a poll of US critics as the best novel published since 2000, reports the...

Thursday, 22 January 2015
Egmont Publishing has closed its US division after failing to establish a market-leading position, reports Publishers Weekly. The Danish publisher had put the US division up for sale in October 2014...

Thursday, 22 January 2015
The European International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) is encouraging booksellers and readers to share their reading choices on social media along with the #mynextread hashtag, reports the Bookseller. The campaign’s message is...

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
In the US, the first National Readathon Day will take place on Saturday 24 January. The event, which is sponsored by the National Book Foundation, Penguin Random House, GoodReads and...

Monday, 19 January 2015
In the US, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have announced new channels for direct-to-consumer sales, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins has launched a pilot program with cloud reader Aerbook, which enables...

Friday, 16 January 2015
The Digital Book Awards were announced in New York on 14 January as part of the Digital Book World (DBW) conference. Among the winners in the flowable ebook categories were...

Thursday, 15 January 2015
The 2015 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) will be held from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia, and will explore the theme ‘17,000 Islands of Imagination’. Organisers...

Wednesday, 14 January 2015
In the UK, new Nielsen BookScan figures reveal that sales of print books have fallen by more than £150m (A$278.53m) since 2009, reports the Guardian. An analysis of last year’s figures...

Tuesday, 13 January 2015
In the UK, David Harsent has won the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry for his collection Fire Songs (Faber) after being shortlisted for the prize five times, reports...

Tuesday, 13 January 2015
The Man Booker Prize has made changes to its rules on the availability of longlisted titles and eligibility of international titles, reports the Bookseller. Following complaints that the prize was...

Tuesday, 13 January 2015
In China, literary organisation the Bookworm is launching the publishing house China Bookworm Press and the inaugural China Bookworm Literary Award, reports Creative Asia. China Bookworm Press will publish English-language...