Monday, 17 February 2014
The Competition Bureau of Canada has reached an agreement with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster that will limit the publishers’ use of agency pricing for ebooks, reports Digital...

Monday, 17 February 2014
US author Bella Andre has signed a deal with ebookseller Kobo for the exclusive rights to French translations of five titles over a three-month period, reports Publishers Weekly. The first title available, Le Cadeau (The Wedding...

Friday, 14 February 2014
BookExpo America (BEA) has announced that it will host China at its Global Market Forum in 2015. A delegation of 500 Chinese professionals from over 100 publishing companies and around...

Friday, 14 February 2014
The shortlists for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the UK, reports the Bookseller. Bookselling chain Waterstones presents three children’s book prizes each year, each worth...

Friday, 14 February 2014
In the US, ebook-subscription service Oyster has created a children’s section with 10,000 ebooks, including around 100 titles from Disney, reports Gigaom. Disney titles now available from Oyster include series such as ‘Toy Story’,...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
In the UK, A A Gill has won this year’s Hatchet Job of the Year Award for his Sunday Times review of Morrissey’s Autobiography (Penguin Classics), reports the Guardian. The...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
US author Hugh Howey has launched a website for analysis of genre ebook sales called Author Earnings, reports the Bookseller. The website offers a report with an interpretation of sales-ranking data...

Wednesday, 12 February 2014
In the UK, the shortlists for this year’s Paddy Power Political Book Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The awards, which were established in 2012 and first presented at...

Wednesday, 12 February 2014
French bookstore chain Chapitre has completed its dissolution after the Paris commercial court approved the takeover sale of eight stores and the closure of 23 stores that couldn’t find buyers,...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
The first Arabic-language ebookstore, Kotobi.com, was launched at the Cairo International Book Fair in February, reports ANSAmed. The bookstore offers several hundred Arabic ebooks from around 40 publishers. Key investor Vodafone...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Folio Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted titles are: Red Doc by Anne Carson (Jonathan Cape); Schroder by Amity Gaige (Faber);...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
In the UK, Random House has launched a new creative writing academy that will offer face-to-face and online writing courses from March. The Writers’ Academy will hold its first face-to-face...