Tuesday, 22 July 2014
A report from lobby group Author Earnings has found that 31% percent of ebooks sold on Amazon over the past three months were self-published, reports the Telegraph. According to the...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair and German Publishers and Booksellers Association have launched a competition to find ‘practicable, pioneering ideas for the physical presentation of digital publishing products and services, either...

Friday, 18 July 2014
Apple has proposed to pay consumers US$400 million (A$428 million) in damages as part of its ebook price-fixing case with US states and consumers, reports Publishers Weekly. The consumer payment is contingent on...

Friday, 18 July 2014
Kenyan Okwiri Oduor has won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘My Fathers Head’. The story is featured in the collection Feast, Famine and Potluck, which was...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The £3000 (A$5487) PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography has been awarded to Sonali Deraniyagala for Wave (Virago), reports the Bookseller. The memoir explores the author’s grief...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
While the dispute between Amazon and Hachette US over trading terms continues, Amazon has offered authors affected by the dispute 100% of royalties on their ebook sales, reports the Bookseller....

Monday, 14 July 2014
Debut Irish author Colin Barrett has won the 2014 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award—the world’s richest prize for a short-story collection, reports the Guardian. Barrett’s collection Young Skins (Vintage...

Monday, 14 July 2014
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that the ‘physical market’ for the first half of the year has fallen by 2.4% to £526 million (A$959 million), with volume sales of...

Friday, 11 July 2014
The Romance Writers of America has released the Novel Engagement app for readers and authors of romance fiction, reports Publishers Weekly. The app will feature a database of 5000 romance...

Friday, 11 July 2014
Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW) has launched the Disney Story Central app and website with titles for kids aged three to seven years, reports Publishers Weekly. The platform includes 100 ebooks based...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
In the UK, the Chipping Norton Literary Festival has announced that it will split its profits with authors in lieu of paying appearance fees, reports the Bookseller. The festival, which...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
In the UK, the Creative Industries Council (CIC) has released the ‘Create UK’ report with a strategy for growth across the creative sector, which will include a poster campaign highlighting the contribution of...

Monday, 7 July 2014
In the UK, the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company, which administer the Business Book of the Year Award, have announced a new prize for the best book proposal by...

Friday, 4 July 2014
In the UK, the winners of the inaugural Booktrust Best Book Awards have been announced. The awards are run in partnership with Amazon Kindle during Children’s Book Week and were...

Thursday, 3 July 2014
World Book Night US has been suspended after failing to secure funding from outside the industry, reports the Bookseller. The event, which started in 2011, follows the format of the...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
In the US, Penguin imprint Berkley is publishing one of its ‘major summer releases’ with two different covers and two different ISBNs, reports Publishers Weekly. Radhika Sanghani’s Virgin, a novel...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 Dagger Awards, reports the Bookseller. Little, Brown editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson won the Historical Dagger for The...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
The American Library Association has announced the winners of the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals. Donna Tartt won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Goldfinch (Abacus) and...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
The French Parliament has passed a law banning online book retailers from offering free shipping to customers, reports French Culture. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the bill was unanimously passed...