Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the US, VIDA has released its annual figures on how many women and men were reviewed in, or wrote for, various high-profile literary publications. The 2014 count shows that...

Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the UK, The Troop by Nick Cutter (Headline)—the pen name of Canadian author Craig Davidson—has won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing, reports the Guardian. Pan Macmillan...

Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the US, Atticus Lish has won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his debut novel Preparation for the Next Life (Oneworld), reports the Washington Post. Lish’s novel was...

Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the US, the nominees for the 2015 Hugo Awards for science-fiction have been announced. The nominees for best novel are Ancillary Sword (Ann Leckie, Orbit); The Dark between the...

Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In Canada, the volume of print book sales has remained steady in 2014 compared to the previous year, while the value of sales has dropped slightly, reports Publishers Weekly. A...

Thursday, 2 April 2015
In the US, a Nielsen Books & Consumers survey has found the ebooks market share of overall book sales increased slightly in 2014 over 2013, reports Publishers Weekly. Ebooks accounted...

Thursday, 2 April 2015
In the US, negotiations on new terms between Amazon and HarperCollins have stalled, reports Business Insider UK. The contract presented to HarperCollins was the same contract signed by Hachette in November 2014 after a public...

Wednesday, 1 April 2015
South African reading development organisation PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa) is the recipient of the 2015 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize...

Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) has delivered ‘a strong performance in its first full year after the merger’, majority owner Bertelsmann has reported. The publisher’s revenues were up 25.2% to €3.3...

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
The number of independent bookshops in the UK fell in 2014 with almost 50 bookshops closing, reports the Bookseller. The Booksellers Association lost 48 members in 2014, down from 987...

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
In the US, a new app gives independent booksellers a way to make personalised book recommendations to customers with their iPhones and iPads, reports Publishers Weekly. The Handseller app has...

Monday, 30 March 2015
A new Publishing Technology/OnePoll survey has investigated the reading habits of ‘millenials’ aged between 18-34 years. The survey of 2000 consumers in the US and UK found that 71% had...

Monday, 30 March 2015
In the UK, Strangers Have the Best Candy (Margaret Meps Schulte, Choose Art) has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller. The...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
In the UK, a campaign to promote James Patterson’s work to existing and potential fans has won the adult category at the Best Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards, presented...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
In the UK, online book buying has overtaken in-store buying for the first time in 2014 according to Nielsen Book, reports the Bookseller. Data revealed at Nielsen Book’s annual conference BookInsights...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction has been announced. The seven shortlisted titles are: The Zone of Interest (Martin Amis, Vintage), The Lie (Helen Dunmore,...

Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize have been announced. In the running for this year’s prize, worth £60,000 (approximately A$113,076) are César Aira (Argentina), Hoda Barakat (Lebanon),...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Indian-American author Akhil Sharma has won the 2015 Folio Prize for his novel Family Life (Faber), reports the Guardian. The Folio Prize, worth £40,000 (A$75,865), is open to novels published...

Monday, 23 March 2015
In the US, HarperCollins is working with Twitter to offer users a hardcover, film tie-in edition of Insurgent (Veronica Roth) direct from the publisher at a 35% discount, reports Publishers Weekly....

Friday, 20 March 2015
Japanese internet services company Rakuten, owner of Kobo, has agreed to acquire library digital content supplier OverDrive for US$410m (A$536m). OverDrive said in a statement that it will operate as...

Friday, 20 March 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) will launch a ‘multi-million pound’ Penguin-branded consumer website in the second half of this year, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at the Changing Media...

Thursday, 19 March 2015
Amazon Publishing has expanded into France, hiring a senior editor to work on original manuscripts, reports the Bookseller. Clément Monjou, former editor of the eBouguin.fre ebook blog, has been appointed...

Thursday, 19 March 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched a new recruitment drive on Tumblr to attract the ‘marketers of tomorrow’, reports the Bookseller. Four people will join PRH under...

Thursday, 19 March 2015
The longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards have been announced. Among the awards is the PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize, worth US$25,000 (A$32,277), which is presented to an author whose debut work...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the UK, Faber is launching a two-tiered membership program, which will offer discounts, access to members-only events and special collector’s editions of the publisher’s titles, reports the Bookseller. The...