Thursday, 26 April 2012
The British Library has acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a seventh-century manuscript believed to be the earliest intact European book, for £9 million (A$14million). The money was raised during the largest fundraising...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
American etextbook platform CourseSmart has announced that while its focus remains core textbooks, it is looking to expand into trade titles soon, in the UK and the US. The platform, which is owned by publishers Pearson, Cengage,...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Slap, the television adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' novel of the same name (A&U), has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award in the...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
According to Reuters the desert trading town of Timbuktu has been overrun with rebels from the Tuareg militia since 1 April, prompting librarians, scholars and citizens to hide away thousands...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
As part of its National Reading Plan, the Catalan Government Railways has placed posters with QR codes linking to the first chapters of popular novels on its trains in a...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Tom Doherty Associates, publisher of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape and Tor Teen imprints and subsidiary of Macmillan US, has announced that by July, its entire list of ebooks will be...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
In the US, John Wiley & Sons has filed lawsuits against four individuals over alleged illegal downloading of its titles, reports the BBC. The suits are based on the use...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Fourth Estate) was shortlisted for the first Chautauqua Prize. Sponsored by the Chautauqua Institution, NY, the prize, ‘celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction...