Friday, 5 February 2016
UK chain bookseller Waterstones has recorded a rise in sales for the year to 25 April 2015, leading MD James Daunt to comment that the company was ‘moving in the...

Wednesday, 3 February 2016
In the UK, ebook sales for the big five publishers—Penguin Random House (PRH), Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Simon & Schuster—have all declined in the past year, reports the Bookseller....

Tuesday, 2 February 2016
HarperCollins UK’s profits have tripled in the 2014-15 financial year, with revenues up by £6.6m (A$13.4m) to £186m (A$377m) and profit before tax up by £8.9m (A$18.1m) to £13.1m (A$26.6m),...

Monday, 1 February 2016
Amazon’s fourth-quarter financial results show net sales increased to US$107bn (A$151.3bn) in 2015, a 20% increase on 2014, although net income remained marginal at just US$596m (A$842.52m) for the year....

Thursday, 28 January 2016
In the US, the results from publisher Lee & Low’s ‘Diversity Baseline’ survey of the workforce at 34 book publishers and eight review journals have been released. The survey found...

Wednesday, 27 January 2016
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and retail research organisation Civic Economics have released a report blaming Amazon for US$1bn (A$1.43bn) in lost revenue to state and local governments in 2014,...

Monday, 25 January 2016
Print book sales rose 1% in volume and 3% in value in Canada in 2015, reports Publishers Weekly. The increase follows several years of declining print book sales in the...

Friday, 22 January 2016
Pearson will cut 4000 jobs—around 10% of its global workforce—by the middle of 2016, reports the Bookseller. The publisher announced the news in a trading update on 21 January, blaming...

Friday, 22 January 2016
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced the shortlist for the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The finalists for the 2016 award in the author category...

Thursday, 21 January 2016
Plans to cut £374,000 (A$768,000) from the Welsh Books Council’s budget have been cancelled following protests from writers and publishers, reports the Bookseller. Wales deputy culture minister Ken Skates said...

Wednesday, 20 January 2016
In the UK, the travel guide market has recorded an increase in sales in 2015 for the first time in seven years, reports the Bookseller. After averaging sales of £103m-£104m...

Tuesday, 19 January 2016
In the US, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists have been announced. The finalists in the fiction category are: The Sellout (Paul Beatty, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Fates...

Monday, 18 January 2016
Indian novelist Anuradha Roy has won the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel Sleeping on Jupiter (Quercus). Roy’s novel was selected from a shortlist of six...

Thursday, 14 January 2016
In Germany, a new annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will debut on the bestseller charts, reports the Guardian. The new critical version published by the Munich Institute for...

Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Five employees from Hong Kong’s Mighty Current publishing house and its affiliated Causeway Bay Bookshop have gone missing, with fears the staff have been detained by Chinese authorities, reports the...

Tuesday, 12 January 2016
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals. Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The...

Monday, 11 January 2016
E L James’ Grey (Arrow) and Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (HarperCollins) were the bestselling books in the UK and US respectively in 2015. In the UK, the Bookseller...

Monday, 11 January 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold its self-publishing division Author Solutions to an affiliate of Najafi Companies, an US-based private investment firm, for an undisclosed sum, reports Publishers Weekly. Author...

Monday, 11 January 2016
In the UK, the Costa Book Award 2015 category winners have been announced. The winners are: A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson, Doubleday) in the novel category; The Loney (Andrew...

Friday, 11 December 2015
The longlists for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards have been announced. The awards are presented in a number of categories, including the US$25,000 (A$34,380) PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize for debut fiction, for...

Thursday, 10 December 2015
The European Commission (EC) has released a Digital Single Market Strategy as part of its competition inquiry into the ecommerce sector in the European Union, reports the Bookseller. The strategy...