Monday, 27 October 2014
In the UK, publisher IglooBooks has partnered with DreamWorks Animation Publishing Group to develop, distribute and sell books linked to Hollywood films, reports Financial Mail on Sunday. The agreement includes...

Thursday, 23 October 2014
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan have released public data from an author insights survey completed by more than 30,000 of their authors, reports the Bookseller. The data, compiled last...

Thursday, 23 October 2014
Ereading app Blloon has launched in the UK and is using ‘gamification’ to engage young people, reports the Bookseller. The app was launched earlier this year by Thomas Leliveld, founder of the Txtr ereading app. It allows customers to read...

Wednesday, 22 October 2014
In the US, Simon & Schuster and Amazon have signed a sales agreement for the publisher’s print and digital books that has been described by S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy as...

Tuesday, 21 October 2014
A UK survey conducted by market research company Mintel has found that one in four (26%) ebook buyers are reading more because ebooks are cheaper than paperbacks. Among younger ebook readers (aged...

Monday, 20 October 2014
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has released its annual report on global publishing markets. The survey of 42 countries has found mostly negative growth in the book markets of wealthier...

Friday, 17 October 2014
US publisher McSweeney’s will seek status as a non-profit organisation from next year, reports Publishers Lunch. In a statement on its website, McSweeney’s said: ‘A nonprofit structure, with a board and...

Friday, 17 October 2014
UK book chain WHSmith has recorded a 9% year-to-year rise in pre-tax profits in its annual results for the year ending 31 August, reports the Bookseller. The chain’s travel stores had a ‘record...

Thursday, 16 October 2014
In the US, the National Book Award has announced the finalists in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. In fiction the finalists are: An Unnecessary Woman (Rabih...

Thursday, 16 October 2014
Attendance at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) is down for the second year in a row, but only ‘modestly’, reports Publishers Weekly. FBF officials have reported that 140,291 trade visitors...

Wednesday, 15 October 2014
In the US, Amazon will open ‘pop-up’ stores in San Francisco and Sacramento to showcase its hardware range during the Christmas holiday period, reports technology-news website Geekwire.  Amazon confirmed that...

Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin has been elected president of the International Publishers Association (IPA) after serving as vice-president since 2013. Charkin will take over from current president Youngsuk ‘Y S’ Chi when...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has announced the winners of the first Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, reports the Bookseller. That’s Not My Piglet (Fiona Watt, illus by Rachel Wells, Usborne) was the...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Kobo has released a report aimed at publishers and authors that explains its method of analysing ebook statistics. The report says that reader engagement statistics gathered from ereading devices can...

Monday, 13 October 2014
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Pakistani activist and author Malala Yousafzai and Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi ‘for their struggle against the suppression of children and young...

Monday, 13 October 2014
Bloomsbury Children’s Books has announced it will run a Harry Potter Book Night on 5 February 2015. The publisher is inviting schools, bookshops, libraries and community groups to participate in the...

Monday, 13 October 2014
In the UK, Paul Kingsnorth’s crowdfunded novel The Wake (Unbound) has won the Gordon Burn Prize, reports the Bookseller. The prize, worth £5000 (A$9246), celebrates writers whose works follows in the ‘fearless footsteps’...

Thursday, 9 October 2014
In an analysis of US ISBN data, Bowker has revealed that 458,564 self-published titles were published in 2013, up 17% from 2012 and 437% from 2008. The growth is due entirely to...

Thursday, 9 October 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Roy Jenkins (John Campbell, Jonathan Cape), The Iceberg: A Memoir...

Wednesday, 8 October 2014
HarperCollins has announced the creation of HarperCollins Germany by expanding the Harlequin Hamburg office to form the new division, reports Publishers Weekly. The publisher said it will continue to release the...

Tuesday, 7 October 2014
In the UK, Faber will host a pop-up shop in London in the lead-up to Christmas, reports the Bookseller. The shop, run by Faber’s publishing and events arm Faber Social,...

Tuesday, 7 October 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the Guardian children’s fiction prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Flora & Ulysses (Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick Press); The Dark Wild (Piers Torday,...

Monday, 6 October 2014
Egmont Publishing, a division of Denmark-based Egmont Group that includes Egmont UK and Egmont USA, has announced it is selling its US business. The publisher of children’s and YA fiction said...

Monday, 6 October 2014
The films based on J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series have topped a Samsung Electronics poll of the best book-to-film adaptations, reports the Evening Standard. The Shawshank Redemption, based on Stephen King’s novella Rita Hayworth...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Harlequin has signed a one-year agreement to make Scribd the ‘exclusive subscription partner’ for 15,000 of its backlist titles, reports Digital Book World. The publisher’s full catalogue will also be available for...

Thursday, 2 October 2014
Five finalists have been selected for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s Digital Publishing Creative Ideas Contest and will present their projects at the content and technology conference CONTEC on 7 October....