PRH buys Rodale Books
Thursday, 11 January 2018
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has purchased the trade book publishing assets of wellness publisher Rodale Books from Hearst Corp, reports Publishers Weekly. Hearst, after announcing its acquisition...
Story Prize 2018 finalists announced
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
In the US, the three finalists for the 2018 Story Prize have been announced. The finalists are: The King is Always above the People (Daniel Alarcón, Riverhead Books) Homesick for...
Costa Book Awards 2017 category winners announced
Monday, 8 January 2018
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2017 Costa Book Awards have been announced, with three of the winning titles published by HarperCollins UK imprints. The five winners...
‘Paris Review’ editor resigns amid questions over his conduct with women
Friday, 8 December 2017
Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, has resigned amid an internal investigation into his behaviour towards female employees and writers, reports the New York Times. Stein sent a...
Rooney wins Young Writer of the Year award
Friday, 8 December 2017
In the UK, Irish writer Sally Rooney has won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for her ‘fearless, sensual’ debut novel Conversations with Friends (Faber), reports the...
Hong Kong rolls out library vending machines at train stations
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In Hong Kong, vending machines stocked with up to 300 library books each are being installed at train stations, reports the South China Morning Post. Books in the machine can...
Cengage launches unlimited subscription service
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In the US, publisher and technology company Cengage is launching a ‘first-of its kind’ digital subscription service for students called Cengage Unlimited, reports the Bookseller. The service, launching in August...
Bollen wins Bad S-x in Fiction Award
Monday, 4 December 2017
US author Christopher Bollen has received the 2017 Bad S-x in Fiction Award, the Literary Review’s annual prize for ‘poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern...
‘La Belle Sauvage’ selected as Waterstones Book of the Year
Friday, 1 December 2017
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has selected Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One (Penguin) as its Book of the Year for 2017. The title was chosen...
Italy to offer tax breaks for bookstores
Thursday, 30 November 2017
The Italian government will introduce tax breaks for bookstores to help stem the number of store closures, reports the Bookseller. The government will cut property and local services taxes for...
Pan Mac UK acquires Cassandra Clare adult fantasy titles in seven-figure deal
Thursday, 30 November 2017
YA author Cassandra Clare has signed a two-book, seven-figure deal with Pan Macmillan UK for her first fantasy novels for adults, reports the Guardian. The first book Sword Catcher will follow ‘a...
Atlantic’s revenue drops in 2016 due to ebook sales ‘squeeze’
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
UK publisher Atlantic’s revenue has dropped in 2016 with ebook sales down 20%, reports the Bookseller. Atlantic’s revenue in 2016 was £5.5m (A$9.7m), down £0.5m (A$0.9m) on the previous year,...
Waterstones to open five stores before Christmas
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
UK bookselling chain Waterstones will open five new bookstores before Christmas, including three that are named after their local area in the style of an independent bookshop, reports the Bookseller....
Bad S-x in Fiction Award 2017 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 November 2017
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the Bad S-x in Fiction Award shortlist for 2017. The seven shortlisted books are: The Seventh Function of Language (Laurent Binet, Vintage)...
Junior doctor’s memoir wins BAMB Readers’ Choice Award
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Junior-doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoir This is Going to Hurt (Picador) has won the Books are My Bag (BAMB) Readers’ Choice Award in the UK. Kay’s memoir, which also won the...
Sales up 79% across UK small presses
Thursday, 23 November 2017
UK indie book distributor Inpress has reported a 79% increase in sales across 60 of its smallest publishing clients in the past year, reports the Guardian. Inpress managing director Sophie...
Costa Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2017 Costa Book Awards have been announced. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: Reservoir 13 (Jon McGregor, 4th Estate) Under a Pole...
Redhill wins Canada’s Giller Prize for ‘Bellevue Square’
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Toronto author Michael Redhill has won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the country’s richest literary award—for his novel Bellevue Square (Doubleday Canada). Bellevue Square tells the story of a woman who tries to track...
‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’ wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Anuk Arudpragasam has won the US$25,000 (A$33,110) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage (Granta), reports the Guardian. Arudpragasam’s novel is...
France wins 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for ‘How to Survive a Plague’
Monday, 20 November 2017
David France has won the £30,000 (A$50,812) Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction writing for his account of the AIDS epidemic How to Survive a Plague (Picador), reports the Bookseller. France was chosen...
Spain to be guest of honour at 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair
Monday, 20 November 2017
Spain will be the guest of honour at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) 30 years after it first appeared as a guest of honour, reports Publishing Perspectives. FBF director...
National Book Awards 2017 winners announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 US National Book Awards have been announced. Jesmyn Ward has won the fiction award for the second time for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bloomsbury),...
Bonnier closes UK self-publishing platform Type & Tell
Friday, 17 November 2017
In the UK, Bonnier has closed its self-publishing platform Type & Tell eight months after it was launched, reports the Bookseller. According to the Bookseller, around 500 UK users were...
Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘H(a)ppy’
Thursday, 16 November 2017
In the UK, Nicola Barker has won the $10,000 2017 Goldsmiths Prize for H(a)ppy (William Heinemann), reports the Bookseller. The prize rewards British and Irish fiction which ‘breaks the mould...
PRH UK to offer employees loans for rental deposits
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) will offer employees loans to cover the cost of rental property deposits, reports the Bookseller. The Home Sweet Loan scheme will allow employees...
UK book-industry survey finds widespread sexual harassment
Monday, 13 November 2017
UK book-industry journal the Bookseller has released the results of its survey on sexual harassment in the industry, with over half of the 388 respondents reporting that they have experienced...
Waterstones announces Book of the Year shortlist for 2017
Friday, 10 November 2017
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has announced the shortlist for its annual Book of the Year award. The seven shortlisted titles are: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Elena Favilli &...
Macmillan closes self-publishing platform Pronoun
Thursday, 9 November 2017
In the US, Macmillan has announced it is closing its self-publishing platform Pronoun, after acquiring the company in May 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. Senior vice-president of publicity and marketing Jeff...
‘Janesville’ wins 2017 Business Book of the Year
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Amy Goldstein has become the first solo female winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award for her book Janesville (S&S), which explores the impact...
Canadian bookselling chain Indigo to open first US store
Monday, 6 November 2017
Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books and Music will open its first store in the US next year, reports Publishers Weekly. Indigo will open its first store in Short Hills, New...
