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The shortlist for this year’s £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize has been unveiled, with three novels, two short story collections and one poetry collection in contention. 

Law and social sciences publisher Edward Elgar Publishing has picked up the CPI Independent Publisher of the Year award and a second award, while Bloomsbury Publishing and Bonnier Books both received two awards. 

One in four book buyers used TikTok/BookTok in 2022 and these consumers accounted for nearly 90 million book purchases last year, according to Nielsen.

DK has bolstered the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB’s) Online Library by donating its entire audiobook collection. 

In 2022, Nielsen BookData saw a 10-percent fall in ebook volumes in the UK, and a 3-percent drop in print. Audiobooks' growth slowed. The post Nielsen BookData 2022: A ‘Slight Decline’ in UK Book Sales appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

In the crowded book-awards space, Exact Editions recommends its environment-friendly digital 'collections' for prize-program jurors. The post Sustainability: Exact Editions Promotes ‘Collections’ for Book-Award Juries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Radzi Chinyanganya, Liam Charles, Maddie Moate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Elle McNicoll are joining a host of experts in children’s literature to judge The Week Junior Book Awards.

Oxford University Press’ (OUP) flagship 11+ preparation brand, Bond, has launched a new AI-powered adaptive learning product in collaboration with the edtech AI platform CENTURY.

Hay Festival has unveiled a packed roster of free events for schools as part of this year’s spring edition of the event, featuring the likes of Children’s Laureate Joseph Coehlo, Jeffrey Boakye and adventurer Bear Grylls.

A group of four major publishers and the Internet Archive (IA) submitted their motions to a New York federal judge on Monday (20th March) for summary judgment in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit.