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Spotify is ramping up its audiobook offering by testing a free audiobook bundle for subscribers, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) first reported.

A five-strong shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University has been announced, including two of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

A roster of bookshop events featuring authors such as A F Steadman, Harriet Muncaster, Les Wilson, Billy Sloan, Jordan Cramond and Laura Ellen Anderson have been announced for The Bookseller Association’s Bookshop Day.

Phoenix Publishing House, winner of the 2023 IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award, has acquired Karnac Books, with Phoenix changing its name to Karnac to “encapsulate this new single entity".

The Italian Publishers Association and the market's booksellers are appealing for more government funding for poorer students' books. The post Italy’s Publishers Ask Rome to Raise Family Schoolbook Funding appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

HarperNorth has announced three promotions, with Genevieve Pegg, Megan Jones and Alice Murphy-Pyle all stepping up, and a number of new hires.

'New perspectives,' organizers say, lie in the 'enduring power of history writing' as the Wolfson History Prize names a 2023 shortlist. The post UK: The £50,000 Wolfson Prize Shortlist: ‘People and Societies’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Levis is joining Bloomsbury to head its sales team in Ireland.

‘Goblin mode’, situationship and pyrocumulonimbus among 3,000 new entries to the ninth editionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSituationship, Barbiecore and “spicy cough”: these are among the 3,000 new entries in the latest update to the Macquarie Dictionary.Emphasising that dictionaries are…

The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) has developed a set of principles aimed at helping to ensure that generative AI is developed safely, ethically and legally.