Tuesday, 8 December 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is proposing to close its distribution centre in Rugby, potentially resulting in 255 job losses, reports the Bookseller. PRH said the move was...

Monday, 7 December 2015
Pan Macmillan’s Flatiron Books will launch a nonfiction imprint in 2017 with books chosen by Oprah Winfrey, beginning with Winfrey’s memoir The Life You Want, reports Publishers Weekly. Flatiron president...

Friday, 4 December 2015
In the UK, content creators from books, film, TV, music and games have launched a ‘government-backed, multi-million pound education and TV advertising campaign’ to tackle copyright infringement, reports the Bookseller....

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
English singer and writer Morrissey has won the 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his debut novel List of the Lost (Penguin). Morrissey’s novel was selected from a shortlist...

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
The winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2015 have been announced. The winners include: Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee, William Heinemann) for Best Fiction and Modern...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
UK publisher insolvencies have risen 58% over the past year, according to research from accountancy firm Moore Stephens reported in the Independent. In the 2014-15 financial year, 128 UK publishers...

Monday, 30 November 2015
The Bookseller has released its seventh annual list of ‘movers and shakers’ in the UK book trade, noting a ‘marked generational shift’ towards ‘book trade veterans who more or less...

Friday, 27 November 2015
The 10th annual Irish Book Awards were celebrated in Dublin on 25 November, with Anne Enright taking out Novel of the Year for The Green Road (Random House) and Joe...

Friday, 27 November 2015
A new poll on reading preferences in Japan has found 94% of readers prefer paper books over ebooks, reports the Bookseller. The Cross Marketing poll surveyed 1200 men and women...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Bertelsmann is looking for a private equity partner to help it buy out Pearson’s stake in Penguin Random House (PRH), three sources have told Reuters. ‘It is definitely something Bertelsmann...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The books selected for next year’s World Book Night in the UK and Ireland have been announced. Fifteen titles will be handed out by volunteers on 23 April 2016, which...

Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the UK, Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots (Oneworld) has won the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award worth £30,000 (AUD$64,300). ‘The book...

Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles: Stories (Doubleday), a collection of six...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the BBC will run a year-long campaign in 2016 to celebrate great authors and encourage reading, reports the Bookseller. The campaign, run in partnership with the Reading...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. The eight shortlisted titles are: Before, During, After (Richard Bausch, Atlantic); Book...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award are: A God in Ruins (Kate...

Tuesday, 17 November 2015
In the UK, finance analysts have warned Pearson investors are ‘increasingly concerned about the risk of an additional profit warning’ after the publisher’s share price fell 5.6% to 773.00p (A$16.56) on 12...

Monday, 16 November 2015
Six titles have been shortlisted for the UK’s £10,000 (A$21,394) Guardian First Book Award, including a poetry collection, a nonfiction title, a short story collection and three novels. Andrew McMillan’s Physical...

Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, Faber will close its Faber Factory Plus sales service for small independent publishers, reports the Bookseller. Clients of the service, which launched in 2012, including  Lonely Planet...

Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) has found more than half of the surveyed companies believe their business is growing, reports the Bookseller. The finding was in its...

Thursday, 12 November 2015
In the UK, Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone (Canongate) has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of six titles, Barry’s fictionalised portrait of The Beatles’ John Lennon ‘at a...

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) will introduce a dedicated science-fiction and fantasy line from February 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. John Joseph Adams, who edited HMH’s first Best American...

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
In Canada, André Alexis has won the C$100,000 (A$106,800) Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs (Serpent’s Tail). The judges described Alexis’ novel as ‘an insightful and philosophical meditation...

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
In the US, Scholastic and youth literature advocacy organisation We Need Diverse Books have released a special edition Scholastic Reading Club flyer for grades four-to-eight, featuring 75 books with ‘diverse...