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...

Thursday, 12 January 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize, recognising ‘brave, bold and brilliant’ literature from small presses, has been announced, reports the Guardian. The shortlisted works, as...

Wednesday, 11 January 2017
In the UK, book sales in 2016 rose five percent to £1.6bn (A$2.64bn) in year-on-year figures to December according to Nielsen BookScan data, reports the Guardian. Book sales were up...

Tuesday, 10 January 2017
In the US, sales of print books were up 3.3% in 2016, marking a third straight year of growth, reports Publishers Weekly. According to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks 80% of...

Monday, 9 January 2017
Simon & Schuster US’s decision to publish an autobiographical book by Milo Yiannopoulos, a British journalist and tech editor for the far-right website Breitbart, has attracted criticism within the publishing...

Friday, 9 December 2016
The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) has released a survey showing a ‘small increase’ in total sales revenue in 2015 for publishers in the European Union and the European Economic...

Thursday, 8 December 2016
In the US, campaign group Authors United has merged with the country’s largest writers’ organisation, the Authors Guild, reports the Bookseller. Originally set up to protect authors’ interests in Amazon’s...

Wednesday, 7 December 2016
In the UK and US, publisher Abrams is discontinuing publication of Bad Little Children's Books after criticism on social media over the book’s ‘unabashedly un-PC, rude, tasteless, inappropriate—or all the above’...

Tuesday, 6 December 2016
In the UK, the Bookseller has announced the winners of this year’s FutureBook Innovation Awards. Pan Macmillan digital communications director Sara Lloyd was named Digital Leader of Year because of...

Monday, 5 December 2016
Ebooks sold in the European Union are likely to face a lower VAT (value-added tax) next year following the European Commission’s (EC) proposal to ‘enable Member States to apply the...

Monday, 28 November 2016
In the UK, US journalist and author William Finnegan has won the £28,000 (A$46,900) William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for his surfing memoir, Barbarian Days (Little, Brown),...

Friday, 25 November 2016
Lonely Planet has released its full-year results for the 2015, revealing a 6.7% growth in turnover from £16.1m (A$27.1m) in 2014 to £17.2m (A$28.9m) in 2015, reports the Bookseller. Operating...

Tuesday, 22 November 2016
In the UK, the chair of the inaugural £1000 (A$1695) Jhalak prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has called publishers ‘pathetic’ after the award received fewer submissions...