A total US$15,000 is being dispersed to winners of this year's National Translation Awards from the American Literary Translators Association. The post ALTA Names Its 2019 US National Translation Award Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

A total US$15,000 is being dispersed to winners of this year's National Translation Awards from the American Literary Translators Association. The post ALTA Names Its 2019 US National Translation Award Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a poll to find the nation’s favourite historical novel.

The "extraordinarily talented" former Collins chairman and c.e.o. Ian Chapman has died, aged 94.

Blackwell's has revealed its contenders for its 2019 Book of the Year, with the all-female shortlist including titles by Booker shortlistee Elif Shafak and Candice Carty-Williams. 

Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Trevor McDonald and Dawn O'Porter feature in a star-studded pictures of the week round-up.

A former tech executive in the video game industry, Paul Abbassi’s work crunching e-book sales figures has made publishers reassess their digital strategies. Ahead of his keynote address, he spoke to The Bookseller.

Penguin Random House's parent company Bertelsmann has expressed confidence it will meet its targets for the full year 2019, reporting a boost in group revenues for the first nine months of 3.3%.

Hay Festival international director Cristina Fuentes La Roche has been awarded an honorary OBE, in recognition of her services to education and culture in Latin America.

Adam Kay’s junior doctor memoir racked up impressive sales over the course of the year and topped the chart, but a self-published title was hot on its heels in second spot.

The Washington Post has revealed the anonymous author behind forthcoming tell-all A Warning has claimed the US president is so unfit for office that a number of fellow administration officials contemplated resigning together in "a midnight self-massacre" but ultimately decided against it.

​Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, as the award returns for its ninth year. 

Germany's publishers and booksellers association releases dual studies on fixed book prices, long a tradition and legally regulated reality in the market. The post Fixed Book Prices in Germany: Two New Studies Are Introduced in Berlin appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Germany's publishers and booksellers association releases dual studies on fixed book prices, long a tradition and legally regulated reality in the market. The post Fixed Book Prices in Germany: Two New Studies Are Introduced in Berlin appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee is currently accepting concurrent session proposals for the 42nd Annual Meeting, being held next May 27–29 in Boston. Here's how to put together a session proposal. The post Get Your Writing Caps On! One Week Left for SSP Concurrent Session Proposal Submissions appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.