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...

Monday, 12 January 2015
The majority of independent booksellers in the UK have reported a boost in Christmas sales this year, according to separate surveys by the Booksellers Association and the Bookseller. The Booksellers...

Monday, 12 January 2015
American author James Patterson is donating £50,000 (A$92,300) to the inaugural World Book Day Award, which gives UK and Ireland school libraries the chance to win funding to purchase books...

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
In the US, Macmillan has signed a multiyear sales agreement with Amazon, reports Publishers Weekly. The deal guarantees the publisher’s print and ebooks will be sold through the online retailer, and...

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
In the UK, the Costa Book Award 2014 category winners have been announced. The winners for each award are: How to be Both (Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton) in the novel...

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) was the bestselling book in the UK and US in 2014 in what was a strong year for children’s books in both markets. In the...

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched an online book club and is being described as ‘this generation’s version of Oprah’, reports TechCrunch. Zuckerberg created the Facebook group page ‘A Year of Books’ after earlier...