UK publishing 2024 workforce report indicates ‘disappointing trend’
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) has released its annual workforce survey report, which, among other findings, suggests ‘improvement in geographic diversity’, while showing ‘a small, but statistically significant,...
Internet Archive copyright case ends
Monday, 9 December 2024
The copyright case against the Internet Archive has drawn to a close after representatives from the organisation ‘decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the [United States] Supreme...
Chatterji wins 2024 Wolfson History Prize
Thursday, 5 December 2024
In the UK, historian Joya Chatterji has won the £50,000 (A$98,781) Wolfson History Prize 2024 for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Vintage). Previously longlisted for the Women’s Prize...
Number of publishing start-ups using AI explodes
Thursday, 28 November 2024
Spines, a startup technology company founded in 2021 that published its first titles this year, is ‘offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books’, reports the...
ByteDance publishing imprint announces first books
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has announced it will start selling print books in bookshops from early 2025, under its publishing imprint 8th note press, reports the Bookseller. ByteDance filed a US...
National Book Award winners announced
Monday, 25 November 2024
In the US, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, worth US$10,000 (A$15,367) in each category, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction James (Percival Everett,...
Michaels wins 2024 Giller Prize for ‘Held’
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Anne Michaels has won the C$100,000 (A$110,028) Giller Prize, Canada’s richest literary award, for her novel Held (Bloomsbury). Of the book, the judging panel wrote: ‘Held is a novel that...
National Book Network to close in US
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that independent distributor National Book Network (NBN) will close next year. The forthcoming closure follows the collapse of Small Press Distribution (SPD) in...
WH Smith revenue up as it plans US expansion
Monday, 18 November 2024
In the UK, travel bookseller WH Smith has announced its total revenue in its travel category was up 11% for the year ended 31 August 2024. In its preliminary results...
PW industry report finds ‘generational shift’, unease about AI
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) has released its 2024 publishing industry salary and jobs report, which ‘reveals the beginnings of a generational shift in publishing and continuing unease about...
Cusk wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘Parade’
Thursday, 7 November 2024
In the UK, Rachel Cusk has won the £10,000 (A$19,605) Goldsmiths Prize for Parade (Faber), a novel that ‘offers an enigmatic and thought-provoking meditation on art, gender and the complexities...
DuVal wins 2024 Cundill History Prize
Friday, 1 November 2024
Kathleen DuVal has been announced as the 2024 winner of the US$75,000 (A$114,122) Cundill History Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House US). Jury chair Rana...
Scribd to change from unlimited to credit-based subscription model
Thursday, 31 October 2024
The US-based reading subscription platform Scribd—which offers formats including magazines, ebooks and audiobooks through its Everand reading platform and announced its Australian launch in 2021—is moving away from its unlimited...
Bloomsbury ‘exploring the opportunity’ of AI deals, Sarah J Maas sales soar
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
In the UK, Bloomsbury has announced its interim results for the six months to the end of August, reporting revenue growth of 32% to £179.8 million (A$354.1m), according to the...
‘A City on Mars’ wins 2024 Trivedi Science Book Prize
Monday, 28 October 2024
In the UK, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Particular Books) has won the...
Industry bodies, creators sign open letter on AI training
Thursday, 24 October 2024
In the UK, a coalition of trade bodies including the Publishers Association, the Society of Authors, Publishers’ Licensing Services, Independent Publishers Guild, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and Association of...
Nielsen, GfK Entertainment global report finds biggest sales drop in NZ
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
A report by Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment, covering 16 territories in the first eight months of the year, has found sales in the fiction segment increased in 14 of...
2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry winners announced
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
At the opening of Durham Book Festival in the UK, four women were announced as winners of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry, with Victoria Chang’s poetry collection with my...
Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature
Monday, 14 October 2024
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’. Han...
UK summer paperback fiction sales up 10%
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
In the UK, paperback fiction sales for the 12 weeks from 30 June were up about 10% on the same period in 2023, reports the Bookseller. Bolstered by the success...
Rollback on diverse publishing ‘breathtakingly swift’
Monday, 7 October 2024
Storymix founder Jasmine Richards told the Bookseller’s Children’s Conference in a keynote in the UK on 30 September that the championing of diverse stories in publishing amid the Black Lives Matter...
Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$19,268), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: All My Precious Madness (Mark Bowles, Galley Beggar Press) Tell...
Casati wins Glass Bell Award for ‘Clytemnestra’
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In the UK, Costanza Casati has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for Clytemnestra (Michael Joseph). Clytemnestra is Casati’s debut historical novel, described by the publisher as ‘an epic feminist...
Polari Prize 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 30 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2024 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced. Shortlisted titles include: Book prize (£2000, A$3867) Blue Hunger (Viola Di Grado, trans by...
Sage ‘considering’ licensing content for AI
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
In the UK, academic publisher Sage has confirmed the company is considering licensing authors’ content to artificial intelligence companies, reports the Bookseller. A Sage spokesperson told the Bookseller: ‘We have...
National Book Award longlists announced
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In the US, the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced. Longlisted fiction and nonfiction titles include: Fiction Ghostroots (’Pemi Aguda, Virago) Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar, Picador) The...
Wainwright Prize winners announced
Monday, 16 September 2024
In the UK, the 2024 winners of the Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing have been announced. The nature writing prize was awarded to Late Light: The Secret Wonders...
British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...
Cundill History Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 9 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which ‘rewards the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The 2024 shortlisted titles are: Judgement at Tokyo: World War II...
Appeals court upholds finding that Internet Archive infringed publisher copyright
Thursday, 5 September 2024
In the US, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision by judge John G Koetl that found the...
