Friday, 3 November 2017
In the US, bookselling chain Book World has announced it will close its 45 outlets across the Midwest by mid-January next year, reports Publishers Weekly. Book World senior vice-president Mark...

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Waterstones owner Alexander Mamut has asked corporate advisors from the investment banking company N M Rothschild to explore a £250m (A$429.5m) sale of the UK bookselling chain, reports the Sunday...

Monday, 30 October 2017
A report commissioned by the UK Booksellers Association and released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research has found that UK bookshops pay 11 times more corporation tax than...

Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Early results from the Bookseller’s annual digital census of UK publishers has found that print and ebook sales are on the rise, with audiobook sales ‘seeing rapid growth despite being...

Monday, 23 October 2017
In the UK, Pearson has apologised for publishing ‘inappropriate content’ in its textbook Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning after being criticised on social media, reports the BBC. A Facebook...

Monday, 16 October 2017
In the US, the Hachette Book Group (HBG) announced it will terminate its Weinstein Books imprint, effective immediately, reports Publishers Weekly. The decision follows reports exposing decades of sexual assault...

Friday, 13 October 2017
In the US, ISBNs for self-published books have grown eight percent from 2015-2016, according to a new report from ProQuest affiliate Bowker. In total, 786,935 ISBNs were assigned to self-published...

Thursday, 12 October 2017
Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle has highlighted the stability of the global publishing market at the opening press conference for the Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishers Weekly. Dohle said...

Tuesday, 10 October 2017
In the UK, Simon & Schuster made a before-tax profit of £3.76m (A$6.37m) in 2016, up from a loss of £132,000 (A$223,000) in 2015, reports the Bookseller. Turnover was up...

Monday, 9 October 2017
In the UK, Scottish publisher Freight Books has asked writers if they wanted to buy their own books back, as the publisher faces an ‘extremely uncertain’ future, reports the Bookseller....

Monday, 9 October 2017
In the US, romance-specialist bookstore The Ripped Bodice has published a report on the racial diversity of romance publishing in 2016, reports Entertainment Weekly. The report found that 7.8% of...

Thursday, 5 October 2017
The European Commission (EC) has ordered Amazon to pay €250m (A$374m) after finding the company received tax benefits in Luxembourg which were illegal under EU state aid rules, reports the...

Thursday, 5 October 2017
In the US, the finalists for the 2017 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature, reports Publishers Weekly. The shortlisted...

Tuesday, 3 October 2017
In the UK, Dorling Kindersley (DK) has agreed to sell travel publisher Rough Guides to APA Publications for an undisclosed amount, reports the Bookseller. DK has begun consultation with 30...

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Berlin-based publishing startup Inkitt, which calls itself a ‘reader-powered book publisher’, has raised US$3.9m (A$4.95m) in venture capital financing, reports Tech Crunch. Inkitt members can solicit feedback for in-progress work...

Tuesday, 26 September 2017
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has expressed support for the EU Commission’s call for fairer taxation of the digital market, reports the Bookseller. As part of the discussions...

Monday, 25 September 2017
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has closed its Enterprises division, which was responsible for creating commercial partnerships for the publisher’s authors and brands, due to it being commercially...

Friday, 22 September 2017
In the UK, publisher Faber & Faber has announced initiatives to reduce the under-representation of minority groups in the company, reports the Bookseller. The plan includes a new internship for...