International Booker Prize longlist announced
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
The longlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize for translated fiction has been announced. The 13 longlisted titles are: I Live in the Slums (Can Xue, trans from Chinese by...
Bertelsmann’s S&S merger faces scrutiny in US, UK
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S) is facing scrutiny from government agencies in both the US and the UK, reports the Bookseller. In...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 longlist announced
Thursday, 11 March 2021
In the UK, the longlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 26th year, the £30,000 (A$54,040) prize is presented annually to the best...
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2021 finalists announced
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
In the US, the finalists have been announced for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, which recognises the best work of fiction published in the preceding year by an American...
Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
In the US, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced he will step down from the role and become executive chairman, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Under the transition, Amazon Web...
Chinese book market down 5% in 2020: Beijing OpenBook
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Beijing OpenBook has reported a 5% downturn on book sales in the Chinese market in 2020—the first drop in value since OpenBook began its tracking in 2001, reports Publishing Perspectives....
UK supply chain hit by border delays, Brexit issues
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
In the UK, booksellers are facing issues with goods coming into and out of Europe due to border delays and Brexit red tape, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones has suspended deliveries...
Reed to retire BookExpo
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
BookExpo, the largest publishing trade show in the US, is being retired by Reed Exhibitions, reports Publishers Weekly. Book-focused events BookCon and Unbound will also be retired. Organiser ReedPop, a...
PA to aggregate diversity statistics
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) will aggregate publisher statistics on the diversity make-up of their books, reports the Bookseller. After a number of big publishers confirmed they were...
Bologna moves to June; plans new general publishing exhibit
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair has changed its dates for next year’s fair from April to June 14-17. Director Elena Pasoli said pushing the fair back ‘gives us the valuable...
Thammavongsa wins Canada’s $100k Giller Prize
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
In Canada, Souvankham Thammavongsa has won this year’s C$100,000 (A$106,150) Giller Prize for her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife (Bloomsbury). Of Thammavongsa’s collection, the prize jury said: ‘How...
LBF moved to June 2021; new director named
Thursday, 5 November 2020
In the UK, the London Book Fair (LBF) has announced next year’s event will take place from 29 June to 1 July, according to the Bookseller. The fair was originally scheduled...
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In the UK, Hazel V Carby has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso), reports the Bookseller....
UK, North American bodies form green book supply chain alliance
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
The UK’s Book Industry Communication (BIC) has formed an international green book supply chain alliance with Canada’s BookNet and US body the Book Industry Study Group, reports the Bookseller. Under...
Booker Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$90,000) prize are: The New Wilderness (Diane Cook, Oneworld) This Mournable Body (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Faber)...
No physical exhibitors at 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair won’t feature physical exhibitors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, reports the Bookseller. Organisers said it was no longer feasible to hold the planned ‘special edition’...
PRH revenue down 1.4% in first half of 2020; Bertelsmann ‘interested’ in buying S&S
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), has reported that the publisher’s global revenue fell 1.4% in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in...
Nigerian-British writer Okojie wins Caine Prize for African Writing
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Nigerian-British writer Irenosen Okojie has won the 2020 Caine Prize for African Writing, worth £10,000 (A$18,000), for her short story ‘Grace Jones’. The story appears in Okojie's 2019 collection Nudibranch...
Gardners owner makes Bertrams asset purchase
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
The Little Group, owner of UK book wholesaler Gardners, has agreed to an asset purchase of book wholesaler the Bertram Group, which went into administration earlier this year. Books+Publishing understands...
Johnson wins 2020 PEN Pinter Prize
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
In the UK, poet and reggae artist Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Prize judge Claire Armitstead said: ‘Once we had laid our nominations on...
Indian writer Pandey named overall winner of 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Indian writer Kritika Pandey has been named the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’. Pandey’s story explores forbidden...
Macmillan US sets up inclusive management team; CEO steps back
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
In the US, Macmillan Publishing will establish a 13-member trade management committee to set goals and objectives for its trade publishers, divisions and departments, reports Publishers Weekly. In a letter...
US bookshop sales down 65% in April
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
According to US Census Bureau estimates, bookshop sales fell 65.3% in April compared to the same month in 2019, reports Publishers Weekly. Physical sales at bookshops fell in April by...
Staff at NYC bookshop chain McNally Jackson ‘likely’ to unionise
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
In the US, employees at New York City bookshop and stationary store chain McNally Jackson are voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) this...
‘The Dirt Hole and its Variations’ wins 2019 Diagram Prize
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Charles L Dobbins' self-published title The Dirt Hole and its Variations has won the 2019 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year presented by the Bookseller. Dobbins, who was...
More than 380,000 UK children don’t own a single book: National Literary Trust
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
In the UK, research from the National Literary Trust (NLT) has found more than 380,000 children don’t own a single book, reports the Bookseller. The research found children who own...
‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ named Waterstones book of the year, Thunberg named author of the year
Monday, 2 December 2019
In its annual awards, UK bookselling chain Waterstones has announced The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury) as book of the year and climate...
Costa Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Thursday, 28 November 2019
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2019 Costa Book Awards have been announced. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: Middle England (Jonathan Coe, Viking) Confession with Blue Horses...
O’Brien awarded £40k David Cohen Prize for Literature
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien has been awarded the £40,000 (A$75,800) David Cohen Prize for Literature, which recognises a living writer from the UK or Ireland's lifetime achievement in literature. O'Brien...
Medieval mystery ‘The Western Wind’ wins 2019 Staunch Book Prize
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
In the UK, Samantha Harvey has won the 2019 Staunch Book Prize—for the best thriller novel in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered—for her novel...
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