Wednesday, 16 April 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright (Comma Press);...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Amazon has signed an agreement with Swedish database company Bokrondellen that gives Amazon access to metadata from most of the publishing houses in Sweden, reports the Bookseller. The agreement was finalised in early...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York City on 14 April. The winner in the Fiction category was The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Abacus), which judges described as...

Monday, 14 April 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Thwaites Wainwright Prize has been announced by publisher Frances Lincoln and the National Trust. The £5000 (A$8900) award recognises the best UK...

Monday, 14 April 2014
In China, Sanlian Taofen Bookstore (STB) has become Beijing’s first 24-hour bookstore with the help of government subsidies and a tax reduction, reports the People’s Daily. Fan Xi’an, president of the bookstore’s...

Friday, 11 April 2014
Amazon has acquired comiXology, a digital comics platform ‘that has been instrumental in driving the growth and popularity of digital comics’, reports Publishers Weekly. The deal will be finalised in...

Friday, 11 April 2014
The line-up of authors for Africa39, a project that celebrates 39 fiction authors aged under 40 from Africa and its diaspora, was announced this week at the London Book Fair....

Thursday, 10 April 2014
In the UK, academic bookselling chain Blackwell’s has announced a new ‘digital learning service’ for students, reports the Bookseller. Unveiled at the London Book Fair on 8 April, the service,...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
In the US, Simon & Schuster has announced a partnership with TED Conferences to co-publish a 12-book collection of TED Books, said S&S in a statement. TED Books will be short...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
PubMatch, an international book rights database founded by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit, has unveiled its new rights sales function at the London Book Fair, reports Publishers Weekly. Rights@PubMatch,...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
In the US, publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin and digital marketer Peter McCarthy have launched a new digital marketing business for publishers and authors, The Logical Marketing Agency. According to the...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
In the US, lawyers for Apple have appealed for a stay of all proceedings in Apple’s ebook pricing case, reports Publishers Weekly. Apple’s lawyers have petitioned judge Denise Cote for...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Penguin Random House UK (PRH UK) has launched a consumer recommendation website. My Independent Bookshop ‘encourages readers to set up their own virtual bookshops to share their favourite reads as...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) has launched a business club ticket with extra services at the fair. The ticket, which is available for either single-day or week-long entry, offers ‘business breakfasts’ for...

Monday, 7 April 2014
In the UK, US author Adam Johnson has won the Sunday Times Short Story Prize—the world’s richest short story prize—worth £30,000 (A$53,570), reports the Guardian. Johnson received the award for...

Friday, 4 April 2014
In the US, Karen Joy Fowler has won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Serpent’s Tail), which recognises the best work of fiction published in...

Friday, 4 April 2014
Katherine Rundell’s children’s novel Rooftoppers (Faber) has been named the overall winner at this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. The novel also won the Best Fiction for...

Friday, 4 April 2014
Michael Tamblyn, chief content officer at ebook retailer Kobo, has been named president of the company, reports Publishers Weekly. Tamblyn will take on the role in addition to his current...

Thursday, 3 April 2014
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction. The shortlisted titles are: Moon Bear (Gill Lewis, OUP); After Tomorrow...

Thursday, 3 April 2014
In the US, Amazon has launched a new service that allows customers to return items using lockers, reports the Wall Street Journal. The service allows customers to place items for...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
In the US, Judge Denise Cote has made two key rulings in the damages phase of Apple’s ebook pricing case, reports Publishers Weekly. In the first ruling, the judge has...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Ebook retailer Kobo has made two separate announcements that it will sell children’s titles from Nickelodeon Publishing and Blue Apple Books on the Kobo platform, reports Publishers Weekly. Nickelodeon will...

Friday, 28 March 2014
UK publisher Verso will offer DRM-free print book and ebook bundles from its own website, reports the Bookseller. Launching on 8 April, the bundling offer will allow customers to download...

Thursday, 27 March 2014
UK supermarket chain Tesco has begun selling ebooks via its blinkbox digital entertainment platform, reports the Bookseller. The blinkbox books store, which can be accessed online and via a free...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Hodder, a division of Hachette UK, has announced plans to purchase UK independent publisher Quercus several months after the company was put up for sale, reports the Bookseller. The deal...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Swedish author and illustrator Barbro Lindgren is the recipient of the 2014 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s and young adult literature. Lindgren is the author...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
The 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, presented by the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY), have been awarded to author Nahoko Uehashi from Japan and illustrator Roger Mello...

Monday, 24 March 2014
In the UK, How to Poo on a Date (Mats & Enzo, Carlton Books) has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller. The...