Monday, 9 November 2015
Six editors and all 31 board members of Elsevier’s linguistics journal Lingua have resigned in protest of the company’s high pricing and refusal to offer open-access, reports Inside Higher Ed....

Friday, 6 November 2015
US author Roxane Gay has won the PEN Center USA’s 2015 Freedom to Write Award, reports the Guardian. The annual award is presented to individuals or organisations for ‘producing notable...

Thursday, 5 November 2015
The BBC has commissioned a TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’, reports the Bookseller. The series will be made in Wales and will be told across...

Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Amazon has opened its first bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, reports Publishers Weekly. Amazon Books, which opened with 15 employees, will stock a selection of titles chosen based on their Amazon.com ratings...

Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate) has been named the ‘best of the best’ of the second decade of winners of the Baileys (formerly Orange) Women’s...

Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Steve Silberman has won the £20,000 ($42,906) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently (A&U), reports the Bookseller....

Monday, 2 November 2015
In the US, Apple has submitted a 35-page petition to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn a July decision to uphold Judge Denise Cote’s 2013 finding on ebook price fixing,...

Friday, 30 October 2015
In Canada, Guy Vanderhaeghe has won his third Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction for his book Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (McClelland & Stewart), reports Globalnews.ca. The judges...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
UK independent bookselling chain Foyles has launched a same-day delivery service to all addresses in central London, reports the Bookseller. The service is priced at £7.50 (A$16.12) for the first...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Scottish pop singer and author Colin MacIntyre has won this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) Book Award for his debut novel The Letters of Ivor Punch (Orion), reports the...

Monday, 26 October 2015
The forthcoming Harry Potter play, to open on West End in London next year, has been conceived as ‘the eighth story in the Harry Potter series’, according to the Pottermore...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
A new survey from the Pew Research Centre has found the number of print book readers in the US has dropped slightly from the previous year, while the number of...

Monday, 19 October 2015
In the US, Amazon has filed a lawsuit against more than 1000 people it claims are writing fake reviews on its website, reports the Guardian. The company claims the defendants...

Monday, 19 October 2015
In the UK, the shortlists for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards have been announced. Award categories include Best Adult Digital Book, Best Children’s Digital Book, Best Digital Marketing Campaign, Best...

Friday, 16 October 2015
Swedish author David Lagercrantz has been contracted to write two more novels in the ‘Millenium’ series (Quercus), reports the Bookseller. The fifth novel in the late Stieg Larsson’s series will...

Thursday, 15 October 2015
In the US, the shortlists for the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. On the fiction shortlist are:...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Jamaican novelist Marlon James has won the £50,000 (A$105,550) Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (Bloomsbury). Set across three decades, the 686-page novel ‘uses...

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Kirstin Innes’ debut novel Fishnet (Freight Books) has won this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK. Chairman of the judges Sam Jordison...

Monday, 12 October 2015
The shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (Jonathan Bate,...

Monday, 12 October 2015
In the UK, booksellers have nominated books by Jonathan Bate, Jamie Oliver, David Walliams and Zoe Sugg as the most likely Christmas bestsellers, reports the Bookseller. An industry-wide ‘Books Are My...

Friday, 9 October 2015
Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’. Alexievich was born...

Friday, 9 October 2015
Publisher Bonnier is developing a new ebook and audiobook subscription service in its native Sweden, with plans to expand the service internationally, reports the Bookseller. The Bookbeat service is still in the...

Friday, 9 October 2015
Iran has announced it will boycott this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) after organisers invited author Salman Rushdie to deliver a keynote speech, reports the Guardian. Iran’s foreign ministry said...

Thursday, 8 October 2015
In the UK, novelist Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 ($A31,890) BBC National Short Story Award for his story ‘Briar Road’. Mark Haddon was named the runner-up and received £3000...

Thursday, 8 October 2015
Scottish independent publisher Canongate has reported ‘extremely disappointing’ results for 2014, with turnover down 24% to £7.9m (A$16.8m), according to the Bookseller. CEO Jamie Byng has blamed the results on...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is removing Amazon’s Kindle devices from many of its stores due to ‘pitiful’ sales, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt said the experience ‘feels very...