‘Financial Times’ 2017 Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$50,655) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted titles are: The One...
Sanna’s ‘The Journey’ wins UK picture-book prize
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
In the UK, Italian artist Francesca Sanna has won the 2017 Klaus Flugge Prize the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture-book illustration, reports the Guardian. Sanna won the £5,000 (A$8,480)...
Longlists for the 2017 National Book Award announced
Monday, 18 September 2017
In the US, the longlists for the 2017 National Book Awards have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly. The three longlists for the adult awards are: Fiction Dark at the Crossing...
UK Publishers Association announces industry-wide diversity plan
Monday, 18 September 2017
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) has announced a 10-point inclusivity plan, with the aim of increasing the percentage of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees in the...
Bookselling Without Borders launches Kickstarter to send booksellers overseas
Friday, 15 September 2017
In the US, advocacy group Bookselling Without Borders has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a scholarship fund to send independent booksellers to international book fairs, reports Lithub. The project aims...
Amazon deletes hundreds of reviews of Clinton memoir
Friday, 15 September 2017
In the US, Amazon has deleted hundreds of one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, What Happened (S&S), reports Quartz. The book, in which Clinton reflects on how she lost...
Audible launches in Canada, promises $12m investment in Canadian stories
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Audible has announced it will open a Canadian store and spend C$12 million (A$12.4m) recording Canadian stories, reports Maclean’s. Audible CEO Don Katz launched the audiobook publisher and retailer’s Canadian...
Man Booker Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Thursday, 14 September 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster, Faber) History of Wolves (Emily Fridlund, Weidenfeld &...
UK small publishers protest Women’s Prize fees
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
In the UK, a few small publishers have protested the publisher fees charged by the Women’s Prize for Fiction, claiming the the fees are ‘extortionate’ and pose a prohibitive barrier to entry,...
Report finds bookshops contribute £1.9b to UK economy
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
In the UK, a new report commissioned by the British Booksellers Association (BA) has found that bookshops contribute an estimated £1.9bn (A$3.12bn) annually to the UK economy, support 46,000 jobs,...
Longlist announced for Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
Monday, 11 September 2017
The longlist for the £30,000 (A$49,130) 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize, which recognises nonfiction writing by authors of any nationality, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Red Famine: Stalin’s War...
US ABA and Authors Guild to partner on emerging author events
Friday, 8 September 2017
In the US, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and the US Authors Guild have partnered on a new initiative to produce events in independent bookstores around the country, reports Publishers...
UK publishing survey finds 90% of industry is white; gender pay gap still exists
Thursday, 7 September 2017
A survey of more than 1000 people working in the UK publishing industry has found that more than 90% of respondents identify as white, reports the Guardian. Of the 1,023...
Amazon tells UK publishers to lower ebook prices to sell more books
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
In the UK, Amazon vice-president of Kindle Content David Naggar, has suggested publishers lower ebook prices as a form of marketing, prompting a number of responses from the UK book...
Canongate profit up 7.6% in 2016
Monday, 4 September 2017
UK publisher Canongate has revealed a profit increase of 7.6% to £128,506 (A$209,050) for the year ending December 2016, reports the Bookseller. Overall turnover for the publisher rose about one...
UK children’s publisher pulps ‘Growing Up for Boys’ after criticism
Friday, 1 September 2017
In the UK, Usborne Publishing has announced it will pulp the remaining stock of its 2013 title Growing Up for Boys, after the book was criticised for its claim that...
US PEN Center withdraws ‘Stealing Indians’ from YA prize shortlist after criticism
Thursday, 31 August 2017
The PEN Center USA has withdrawn John Smelcer’s novel Stealing Indians (Leapfrog Press) from its Young Adult Prize shortlist after several writers publicly questioned Smelcer’s integrity, reports the Guardian. Stealing...
‘New York Times’ pulls YA book from its bestsellers chart after ‘inconsistencies’ in sales reports
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
In the US, the New York Times has pulled a novel from the top of its young adult hardcover bestsellers list after discovering ‘inconsistencies’ in its sales reporting. The New...
Pearson remains world’s biggest publisher in 2016
Monday, 28 August 2017
Pearson has retained the top spot in the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry for the ninth year in a row, reports the Bookseller. The annual Livres Hebdo/Bookseller list, compiled...
‘Where’s Mr Lion’ named Sainsbury’s children’s book of the year
Friday, 25 August 2017
The baby and toddler book Where’s Mr Lion by Ingela Arrhenius (Nosy Crow) has been named book of the year at the 2017 Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, reports the Bookseller....
Bloomsbury to launch China imprint in 2018
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Bloomsbury will launch an English-language imprint Bloomsbury China in February next year, reports the Bookseller. The imprint will be based at the publisher’s London office. It will publish works in...
CUP reverses decision to block access to journal articles in China
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
In the UK, Cambridge University Press (CUP) has reversed its decision to block access to hundreds of articles in its journal The China Quarterly in China after a ‘justifiably intense...
Pan Macmillan to release 70th-anniversary classics series
Friday, 18 August 2017
In the UK, Pan Macmillan is celebrating 70 years since the publication of the first Pan paperback by reissuing 20 classic titles, reports the Bookseller. The Pan 70 series pays...
Quarto terminates sales talks
Thursday, 17 August 2017
The Quarto Group has terminated discussions with an unsolicited bidder on the ‘mutual agreement’ of both parties, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Quarto announced the offer from...
McBride, Cumming win 2017 James Tait Black Prizes
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
The winners of the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography—the UK’s oldest literary awards—have been announced. Eimear McBride’s second novel The Lesser Bohemians (Text) has won the £10,000...
HarperCollins releases 2017 full-year results
Monday, 14 August 2017
In the US, HarperCollins has reported a decline in revenue of US$10m ($A12.7m) in the fiscal year ending 30 June, a drop of 0.6% compared to fiscal 2016, reports Publishers...
Hugo Awards 2017 winners announced
Monday, 14 August 2017
For the second year running, N K Jemisin has won the Best Novel category at the Hugo Awards for science-fiction and fantasy titles. Jemisin picked up the award for her...
Not the Booker Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. The shortlisted titles...
Quarto approached for sale
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
The Quarto Group has received an unsolicited approach for sale from a third-party buyer, reports the Bookseller. Quarto said the board considers the price ‘attractive and reflective of the inherent...
S&S UK signs up to plan to protect authors in ‘special sales deals’
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Simon & Schuster UK has signed up to the Society of Authors’ (SoA) seven-point plan to ensure ‘special sales deals’ don’t affect writers’ earnings, reports the Bookseller. The SoA published...
