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HarperCollins ‘sincerely apologises’ to doctor for claims about Sydney private hospital in ABC journalist Steve Cannane’s bookFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA long-running defamation case sparked by the ABC journalist Steve Cannane’s 2016 book on Scientology has ended with…

The 2023 'Firecracker Awards' announced this month by CLMP include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary magazines. The post CLMP’s Ninth Annual ‘Firecracker Awards’: Five Categories in 2023 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

In its upcoming edition, Frankfurter Buchmesse's CONTEC Mexico program focuses for two days on sustainability, translation, and audio. The post Frankfurt’s CONTEC Mexico 2023: Sustainability, Translation, Audio appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Ursula Owen and Harriet Spicer took up the reins in the mid-1970s and made the dreams a reality, write Lennie Goodings and Sarah SavittThank you to Ella Creamer for her rousing piece on Virago Press reaching 50 proud years of publishing (‘People still do not want women to succeed or be equal. While that is…

Penguin Random House’s magazine The Happy Reader is being discontinued, with the latest issue its last.

Oliver Gadsby has been appointed as the new president of the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG), succeeding Jonathan Harris, who has been president since 2015.

Jason Allen-Paisant, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Kathryn Bevis are among the 20 poets shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prizes for Poetry. 

Matt Cowdery has joined Thames & Hudson Ltd (T&H) as head of international sales, taking responsibility for expanding the international trade sales structure to ensure continuous growth and reflect T&H’s evolving lists.

The winners of this year’s Society of Authors’ Awards have been unveiled. 

The Society of Authors (SoA) has welcomed the launch of a government consultation into the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme, which provides authors with an income of up to £6,600 from loans of their books from libraries in the UK.