Arrest of booksellers sparks international condemnation
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna, the Palestinian uncle and nephew co-owners of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, were released by police on Tuesday, 11 February, but remain under a...
2024 Chytomo Award winners announced
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
In Ukraine, the 2024 winners of the Chytomo Awards have been announced, reports Publishing Perspectives. The Chytomo Awards celebrate achievements in Ukrainian publishing across three categories, highlighting innovations in digital publishing,...
RBmedia reports ‘record-setting performance’, OverDrive audiobook borrowing up 19%
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reported a strong close to 2024 for audiobook publisher RBmedia. After operating for a full year under new ownership since being acquired by H.I.G....
Bestseller Awards: Donaldson overtakes Rowling in units sold
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
In the UK, Nielsen BookData and BolognaBookPlus have awarded the annual Bestseller Awards, reports BookBrunch. Based on UK volume sales data, the Bestseller Awards recognise all-time sales across both print...
Gizzi wins 2024 TS Eliot Prize
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
In the UK, Peter Gizzi has won the 2024 TS Eliot Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,319), for Fierce Elegy (Penguin), reports Book Brunch. Fierce Elegy was chosen from a shortlist of...
‘Supremacy’ wins 2024 FT Business Book of the Year
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
In the UK, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World (Parmy Olson, St Martin’s Press) has won the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the...
Polari Prizes 2024 winners announced
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
In the UK, the winners of the 2024 Polari Prizes have been announced. The winners in each category are: Polari Book Prize (£2000; A$3908) The Gallopers (Jon Ransom, Muswell Press),...
HarperCollins becomes first major US trade publisher to reach AI licensing deal
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the US, HarperCollins has become the first of the Big Five publishers to accept an AI licensing deal, reaching an agreement with an undisclosed company ‘to provide access to...
Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
In the UK, Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,635), for Orbital (Vintage). Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts...
S&S-owned publisher plans ‘limited experiment’ using AI for English translations
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
In the Netherlands, the country’s largest book publisher—Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK), which was acquired by Simon & Schuster earlier this year—has confirmed it plans to use artificial intelligence (AI)...
‘Language City’ wins 2024 British Academy Book Prize
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
In the UK, US author writer Ross Perlin has won the £25,000 (A$48,543) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...
US audiobook fiction up 61.8% in July
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that digital audio sales jumped significantly in the month of July, compared to the same time the previous year, based on total sales...
FT Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost)...
Winter wins 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
In the UK, Kate Winter has won the £5000 (A$9736) Klaus Flugge Prize for the book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin). Featuring panoramic fold-out pages and illustrated in watercolour, The Fossil...
Audible tests AI voice replica service for narrators
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Audible is ‘inviting a small group of narrators to participate in a beta test that will enable them to create and monetise...
Wiley expects to make US$44 million from AI partnership, authors unable to opt out
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
In the US, academic publisher Wiley has revealed it expects to make US$44 million (A$66m) from artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships that allow large language models (LLMs) to be trained on...
Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$48,482) award, selected...
‘In Ascension’ wins 2024 Arthur C Clarke Award
Wednesday, 7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports the Guardian. MacInnes’s third novel, In Ascension follows marine biologist...
Taylor wins 2024 Ackerley Prize
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
In the UK, journalist and author Catherine Taylor has won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for The Stirrings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), reports the Bookseller. Taylor receives £4000 (A$7852). Also shortlisted for...
Vivendi updates plans to list Hachette on stock market
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
In France, Hachette Livre parent company Vivendi has updated its plans to list parts of its business on the stock market, reports the Bookseller. Vivendi said it would create three...
Foot traffic up at Barnes & Noble
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
In the US, location analytics company Placer.ai has reported that, between November 2023 and May 2024, foot traffic to Barnes & Noble (B&N) stores has increased every month except January,...
Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, worth £5000 (A$9541), has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the 2024 award are: Martyr!...
2024 Prix Voltaire shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced the 2024 shortlist for the Prix Voltaire. This year’s shortlist, announced at the World Expression Forum, includes: Osman Kavala, Türkiye Dušan Gojkov, Balkan...
UK reports find children reading fewer books, writing less
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
In the UK, an annual report tracking the book-reading habits of around 1.2 million students across the UK and Ireland has found a drop of 4.4% in the number of...
Headline launches new ‘serious’ nonfiction imprint
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
In the UK, Headline Publishing Group is launching Headline Press, a new ‘serious’ nonfiction imprint, reports the Bookseller. Headline said the new imprint, to be led by publisher Martin Redfern,...
Erpenbeck, Hofmann win 2024 International Booker for ‘Kairos’
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
The novel Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated from German by Michael Hofmann (Granta), has won the £50,000 (A$95,325) International Booker Prize, reports the Bookseller. Kairos was chosen from...
‘Brotherless Night’ wins 2024 Carol Shields Prize
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan (Penguin) has won the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,385). The judging jury—made up of Jen Sookfong Lee (chair), Laila Lalami,...
Pulitzer Prize 2024 winners announced
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
In the US, the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The winners in the book categories were: Fiction Night Watch (Jayne Anne Phillips, Fleet) Nonfiction A Day...
PEN America cancels 2024 Literary Awards ceremony
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
In the US, PEN America has cancelled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was to be held on 29 April, reports Publishers Weekly. It comes after 28 authors withdrew books...
Remaining big five publishers join PRH in Iowa lawsuit
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
In the US, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster, along with Sourcebooks, have joined Penguin Random House (PRH) as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Iowa to block the book...