- 2019 Jan 31
More Visa Trouble for Authors In U.K.
British publishers have spoken out about the increasing problems of authors getting visas for international travel.
- 2019 Jan 15
Why 1984 Isn't Banned in China
Censorship in the country is more complicated than many Westerners imagine, and George Orwell's work is a case in point.
- 2018 Nov 15
Dostoevsky Banned In Kuwait
The country's information ministry has blacklisted 'The Brothers Karamazov' and other titles from entering a book festival.
- 2018 Nov 01
Judge's 'Lady Chatterley' Fetches £56K
The copy of D.H. Lawrence's book owned by the presiding judge of the famed obscenity trial of 1960 sold at auction in London.
- 2018 Oct 30
Egyptian Court Frees Author
Abdul Khalik Farouk was released on Tuesday, nearly a week after his arrest for writing a critical book on Egypt's economic policies.
- 2018 Oct 22
Author Critical of Egypt Arrested
Egyptian police on Sunday arrested the author of a book about Egypt’s economy on charges of publishing false news.
Iceland's Love of Books Is Melting
The holidays in Iceland herald jólabókaflóðið, the traditional Christmas book flood. But smartphones are getting in the way.
- 2018 Oct 05
Super Thursday Gets Bigger
The first Thursday in October is now a publishing touchstone in the U.K., where 544 new books hoping to be Christmas hits were released yesterday.
- 2018 Oct 04
The Price of Springer's Chinese Bargain
Editors of the book series Transcultural Research part ways with Springer Nature over concerns about censorship in China.
- 2018 Oct 01
Kuwait Steps Up Book Banning
The country's recent literary censors include an encyclopedia with a photo of Michelangelo’s David and Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' tie-in.
- 2018 Aug 22
Kevin Kwan Wanted In Singapore
The author of 'Crazy Rich Asians' is wanted in his birth country for failing to register for national service.
- 2018 Aug 02
Crime Author Sentenced for Murder
A Chinese crime writer who allegedly used murders he committed as inspiration for his novels has been sentenced to death.
- 2018 Jul 09
German Author Takes RH to Court
A German author has sued Random House for not releasing his anti-Islam book. A Munich court will hear the dispute.
- 2018 Jul 03
Pengelly Buys 'Books+Publishing'
Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly has bought 'Book+Publishing' from ProQuest. Editor-in-Chief Jackie Tang will step down.
- 2018 Jul 02
Brazil's Ignored Literary Light
Why isn’t Machado de Assis, one of Brazil's greatest authors, more widely read?
- 2018 Jun 29
The War on 'Singlish'
Singapore's government is waging a campaign to rid the country of its unofficial language, insisting that its citizens “speak good English.”
- 2018 Apr 13
British Publishers Fear U.S. Amid Brexit
Britain's imminent departure from the E.U. has U.K. publishers concerned about U.S. publishers moving into the European market.
- 2017 Nov 13
Australian Pub Pulls Book in China
A book published by Allen & Ulwin alleging wide Chinese influence on institutions in Australia has been pulled, feeding censorship fears.
- 2017 Oct 10
Fifty Shades of Xi
Scores of books praising President Xi Jinping are being published in China ahead of next week’s political summit.
- 2017 Aug 31
Young Quebec Publishers Take Risks
The francophone side of Quebec publishing is undergoing a renaissance—and finding new readers.
- 2017 Jul 28
Oddest Book Title of the Year Announced
'The Commuter Pig Keeper' by Michaela Giles won the Bookseller magazine’s Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.
- 2017 Jul 17
China Reportedly Blocks Winnie the Pooh
The popular children's book has been censored on Chinese social media, according to the Financial Times.
- 2017 May 04
Amazon and the E.U. Come to Terms
The European Commission has accepted commitments by Amazon to alter its e-book contracts with publishers, ending an investigation.
- 2017 Feb 21
Why the 'Ladybird' Books Keep Selling
The 'Guardian' looks at the continued success of this tongue-in-cheek series of retro books that it says is now worth over 30 million pounds.
- 2017 Jan 06
173-Year-Old Book Store to Close
Australia's oldest book store, Birchalls, will shut down after failing to attract a new buyer.
- 2016 Oct 27
UK Nonprofit Calls for Library Closings
A charity that deals with "digital inclusion" called the Tinder Foundation has said that not all libraries deserve to stay open.
- 2016 Oct 25
Bookies on the Man Booker
Although 'His Bloody Project' is popular with readers, bookies think the British prize will go to Madeleine Thien’s 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing.'
- 2016 Mar 28
Your New Favorite Bookshop
Libreria, a new bookshop in London, is banning mobile phones and tablets, offering patrons a "digital detox zone."
Amazon Prime Now Heads to Germany
The online retail giant is reportedly launching a two-hour delivery service in Berlin.
- 2016 Mar 25
Hong Kong Book Publisher Returns Home
Three months after disappearing, Lee Bo returned to his home Thursday, and the Chinese government insists he was not kidnapped.
- 2016 Mar 24
Anonymous Targets Tattered Cover
The hacker group is targeting Denver's Tattered Cover Book Store over the store’s refusal to take a stand on the city’s urban camping ban.
- 2016 Mar 22
Forging New Bonds with Cuba
Check out Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah's blog post on Cuba, the Havana Book Fair, and the first U.S. publishing mission.
- 2016 Mar 17
Poetry at Heathrow Airport
Heathrow’s newly-installed ‘poetry points’ will broadcast the work of poets such as Michael Rosen in order to entertain travelers.
- 2016 Mar 16
Japanese Bookstores Face Crisis
Major bookstores in Japan are suffering as sales of books, magazines, and comics continue to decline.
- 2016 Mar 10
10 Most Literate Countries Listed
A new study ranked 61 countries from most to least literate, with Norway, Finland, and the U.S. among the top 10.
- 2016 Mar 03
Three Hong Kong Booksellers to be Freed
Chinese authorities said that three of the missing booksellers will be freed on bail in a matter of days.
- 2016 Feb 29
Hong Kong Booksellers Appear on TV
Four of the five missing booksellers told Chinese media that they have been detained for "illegal book trading" on the mainland.
- 2016 Feb 17
'War and Peace' A Bestseller
With the BBC's adaptation of it, Leo Tolstoy's epic novel is among the Top 50 bestselling books in the U.K. for the first time.
- 2016 Feb 11
Amazon Acquires 26% of Westland
Amazon is extending its global reach to India after picking up 26% stake in Tata Group’s publishing arm Westland for around $1.4M.
- 2016 Feb 04
Germany Agrees to Fix E-book Prices
The German cabinet has extended a law to fix e-book prices in order to protect brick-and-mortar stores.
- 2016 Jan 25
Hong Kong Bookseller Reunites with Wife
Lee Bo, one of five missing booksellers from Hong Kong, has reportedly reunited with his wife in mainland China, according to CNN.
- 2016 Jan 14
Writers Protest Poet's Death Sentence
The global protest is aimed at halting the death sentence of a Palestinian poet charged, in Saudi Arabia, with renouncing Islam.
- 2016 Jan 13
Political Book Canceled in Hong Kong
Amid the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers, a local publishing house has reportedly pulled a book critical of China's president.
- 2016 Jan 11
‘Mein Kampf’ Sells Out In Germany
The new, annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's manifesto flew off the shelves in Germany, after being published in the country for the first time in 70 years.
- 2016 Jan 08
'Mein Kampf' On Sale Again in Germany
Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic manifesto is available in German bookstores for the first time in 70 years.
- 2015 Dec 15
Book Council of Australia Axed
The newly-created Book Council of Australia is a casualty of a $52.5 million cut in government funding.
- 2015 Dec 10
Books Are Booming in the Middle East
Although ISIS is disrupting the publishing heartland in the Middle East, book sales and literacy are on the rise in the region.
- 2015 Nov 30
BBC Offers Racy Take on Tolstoy
A serialized TV adaptation of 'War and Peace' on the British network--one of the plot lines involves incest--is raising some eyebrows across the pond.
- 2015 Nov 23
UK Booksellers Try 'Civilized Saturday'
Over 100 booksellers have signed on to offer an antidote to the mayhem-inducing Black Friday.
- 2015 Oct 19
Belarus Bookshop's Publishing Risk
An underground publisher says it is risking regulations to translate Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich’s novels into her home language.
- 2015 Aug 31
Comic Books Take Hold in the Middle East
'Al Jazeera' explores how, amid growing demand, the Muslim and Arab world has begun constructing more of its own comic superheroes.
- 2015 Apr 13
Gunter Grass Dies at 87
The Nobel-winning German novelist passed away at a hospital in Lübeck.
- 2015 Mar 10
International YA Releases
A list of international YA books releasing this week.
- 2015 Jan 06
Fighting a Fatwa in Algeria
Kamel Daoud is facing a fatwa for his lauded debut novel, 'Meursault, Counter-Investigation.'
Houellebecq Sparks Controversy
The French author's new novel, 'Submission,' depicts a scenario in which a fictional Muslim Brotherhood party wins the 2022 French presidential election.
- 2014 Oct 17
Sherlock Holmes Hits Museum of London
'The Telegraph' looks at the new exhibit featuring the iconic detective.
- 2014 Jul 11
Debut Wins Frank O'Connor Award
Irish author Colin Barrett has won the short story award for his debut collection, "Young Skins."
- 2014 Jul 10
Author Turns Down Amazon Award
British children’s author Allan Ahlberg has declined the Booktrust Best Book Awards‘ Lifetime Achievement Award, because it's sponsored by Amazon.
- 2014 Jul 09
Literary Display Draws Gawkers
The British Museum's Wheel of Books display is becoming a tourist attraction.
- 2014 Jul 08
Survey Says Authors Are Getting Poorer
'The Guardian' reports on a U.K. survey about author salaries, saying the report shows author incomes have collapsed to "abject" levels.
Howey Blasts Coverage of Salary Survey
Hugh Howey says the coverage by "The Guardian" about U.K. author salaries, as reported in a survey, gets it very wrong.
Should Germans Read 'Mein Kampf'?
Journalist Peter Ross Range asks in a "New York Times" op-ed.
- 2014 Apr 18
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies at 87
The Nobel-prize winning Colombian author is considered by some "the most significant Spanish-language author since Miguel de Cervantes."
New Murakami Book Out In Japan
Some fans lined up at midnight, at a Tokyo bookstore, to get a copy of the author's first short story collection in nine years.
Waterstones Opens New Location
The Hampshire location is the British book chain's first new store since since 2008.
- 2014 Feb 26
Stieg Larsson: Dead Crime Solver.
Death isn't stopping Stieg Larsson from sleuthing. The deceased bestseller left behind a trove of documents about the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme, naming, in them, the man he suspects of the crime.
Self-Publishing Hits Academia
Forget the MFA. A university in the U.K. is now offering a masters in self-publishing.
- 2014 Jan 10
French Gov't Challenges Amazon
On Wednesday, a group of French senators, in a bid to protect the country's independent bookstores, put forth a bill that would block Amazon from offering free shipping in France.
- 2013 Sep 25
Head of U.K. Booksellers Assoc On Change
Patrick Neale, head of the U.K. organization the Booksellers Association, recently talked about the need for bookselling financial models to change.
- 2013 Sep 12
Update on Waterstrone's Manager Exodus
On Melville House's blog, dir. of marketing Zeljka Marosevic has an update/analysis on the continuing collapse of Britain's biggest book chain.
Kobo Lands in the Philippines
The e-reading company is launching in the country through a partnership with the largest local book chain.
- 2013 Feb 12
The Japanese Hate On E-Books
Fortune explains why the Japanese are not fans of digital reading.
- 2013 Jan 15
Turkish Culture Minister Blocks Censors
In Turkey, the culture minister blocks attempts to censor John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and José Mauro de Vasconcelos's My Sweet Orange Tree.
- 2012 Nov 21
U.K. Bookstores Challenging Amazon
British booksellers are trying to take on Amazon over the retailer's supposed "tax dodging" in the U.K.
Cairo No Longer a Publishing Mecca?
The Egypt Daily News looks at the diminishing position of the city as the center of the Egyptian publishing business.
- 2012 Nov 16
English Booksellers Launch New Lit Prize
A U.K. bookseller, along with the British organization the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, has created a new fiction prize for children's literature.
- 2012 Oct 26
E-books Big In Japan
'Bloomberg Businessweek' says the Japanese market, where e-readers have long had no traction, is finally shifting with the introduction of epub3.
- 2012 Oct 19
Bertelsmann-Jahr Talks End
Bertelsmann ended discussions with the Jahr family that will keep the family’s stake in Gruner & Jahr at 25.1%.
Mo Yan, the Theme Park?
The Vanvoucer Sun reports that Chinese officials are looking into turning the recent Nobel Prize winner's small village into the "Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone."
- 2012 Oct 18
Mantel's UK Pub Gearing Up Reprint
HarperCollins, which publishes Booker winner Hilary Mantel in the U.K., is returning to the presses for 100,000 copies of winning book, Bring Up the Bodies.
- 2012 May 06
More Staffers Leaving 'Granta'
John Freeman isn't the only top editor leaving the British literary magazine.
- 2011 Dec 23
A Look at Indian Publishing in 2012
A New Delhi publisher discusses where he thinks the Indian book market is headed in the coming year.
- 2011 Dec 07
Aussie Retailer to Offer Self-Publishing
The Australian retailer Drymocks has launched a publishing arm.