Monday, 27 February 2017
In the UK, Pearson has reported a pre-tax loss of £2.6bn (A$4.22bn) in 2016, attributed to challenges in the US education market, reports the Bookseller. Pearson also reported a rise...

Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Simon & Schuster has recorded a drop in revenue in 2016 and an increase in earnings, reports Publishers Weekly. Parent company CBS reported that the publisher’s revenue was US$767m ($A999m)...

Tuesday, 21 February 2017
In the US, Simon and Schuster has cancelled British far-right journalist and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ book Dangerous, reports Publishers Weekly. The company released a brief statement, saying: ‘After careful...

Monday, 20 February 2017
UK publisher John Blake has revealed he has the manuscript for Mick Jagger’s memoir but does not have permission from Jagger to publish it, reports the Bookseller. Blake, whose company...

Thursday, 9 February 2017
New releases by Salman Rushdie and John Grisham have been announced for publication in 2017. Jonathan Cape will publish Rushdie’s 13th novel, The Golden House, in September, reports the Guardian....

Wednesday, 8 February 2017
New analysis by the UK’s National Literacy Trust (NLT) has found ‘serious literacy issues’ in the vast majority of England’s constituencies, reports the Bookseller. The report found that 458 of...

Tuesday, 7 February 2017
The shortlist for the UK’s inaugural Jhalak Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has been announced, reports the Guardian. The shortlisted titles are: The Girl of Ink...

Monday, 6 February 2017
Waterstones MD James Daunt has told the Bookseller that the UK bookselling chain will open ‘at least’ 10 new shops in 2017. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the 270-store chain...

Friday, 3 February 2017
Print book sales have declined in Canada in 2016, with print book volume down 6.4% and value down 3.5% on the previous year, reports Publishers Weekly. According to figures from...

Thursday, 2 February 2017
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has posted its first profit in five years, reports the Bookseller. Reporting for 270 stores, Waterstones posted a profit of £17.6m (A$29.37m) in the year to...

Thursday, 2 February 2017
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH), Hachette Book Group (Hachette) and Publishers Weekly will pay half of each of their employees’ membership fees to PEN America, in a move to...

Tuesday, 31 January 2017
The New York Times (NYT) is dropping its print and online bestseller lists for graphic novels and manga, mass-market paperbacks, teen e-books and middle-grade e-books effective from 5 February, reports...

Monday, 30 January 2017
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals. The fiction prize was awarded to Colson Whitehead for The Underground Railroad (Orbit) and the nonfiction...

Friday, 27 January 2017
Author Roxane Gay has pulled her book How to Be Heard from Simon & Schuster (S&S) in response to the far-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal with the US publisher’s conservative imprint Threshold Editions,...

Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Swedish author Fredrik Colting and his partner are facing a legal complaint from publishers Penguin Random House (PRH) and Simon & Schuster (S&S), as well as the estates of Arthur...

Wednesday, 25 January 2017
In the UK, Amazon will launch a £20,000 (A$33,040) literary prize for self-published books, reports the Telegraph. The Kindle Storyteller Prize will be open to any English-language book published through...

Tuesday, 24 January 2017
In the UK, ebook sales for the five biggest publishers have declined for the second year in a row, reports the Bookseller. According to data supplied to the Bookseller, the...

Monday, 23 January 2017
Apple and Amazon have ended an exclusive audiobooks deal following ‘pressure from anti-trust regulators in Germany and the European Commission’, reports the BBC. Under Apple and Amazon’s deal, Amazon-owned audiobooks...

Friday, 20 January 2017
In the UK, Nielsen Book has published its inaugural Bestseller Hall of Fame, recognising titles that have sold more than one million copies between 1998 and the end of 2015,...

Thursday, 19 January 2017
Pearson has announced it intends to sell its 47% stake in Penguin Random House (PRH), reports the Bookseller. Pearson will issue an exit notice to joint venture partner Bertelsmann, which...