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Five textbook publishers have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against pirate site Library Genesis (LibGen) seeking for the operation to be shut down and the site’s domain names blocked.

Whitchurch Library in Shropshire, Blackhall Library in Edinburgh and Hatfield Peverel Library in Essex have been temporarily closed while surveys are carried out.

The winners of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Awards 2023 have been announced.

How can the UK book industry better capture the sizeable audience for comics and graphic novels?

Scottish Publisher Birlinn Ltd has launched Scotland by-the-Book is, a free app that brings books on a range of subjects, includings history, fiction and poetry, to readers with an interest in Scotland.

The nominations for the ninth BBC Young Writers’ Award have been announced.

Three authors previously honored in the National Book Awards' programs are among the 10 longlisted fiction titles for 2023. The post US National Book Awards 2023 Longlist: Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Amy-Jane Beer, Guy Shrubsole and Kiran Millwood Hargrave have been announced as the winners of this year’s James Cropper Wainrwright Prizes. 

Kate Foster has won the £500 Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year for The Maiden (Mantle) while Callum McSorley has been awarded the £1,000 McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year for Squeaky Clean (Pushkin Press).

Not all international audiobook markets are evolving at the same pace, say speakers in the second online Frankfurt Rights Meeting event. The post Frankfurt Rights Meeting 2: Developments in Audio appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.