Independent publishers have triumphed on the shortlists for this year’s British Book Trade Awards, which were revealed at the London Book Fair by Richard Cable, m.d. of Random House CCV, the current publisher of the year.

The shortlist for the Lightning Source Independent Publisher of the Year Award comprises: Alastair Sawday...

Australian authors are up in arms about a government review of the country's copyright laws.

According to the Guardian, in an impassioned response to the review, the Booker prize-winning author Peter Carey argued against making any changes.

"As long as we have a territorial copyright our publishers have a...

Wendy Cope, a favourite to succeed Andrew Motion as Poet Laureate, has called for the post to be abolished. Writing in the Royal Society of Literature Review, she says the position has far too many expectations attached to it.

She suggests that a good poet can write about public events without holding an official title. The government...

A biopic of Ian Fleming is in the works. According to Empire Online, "Fleming" is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, and will be written by John Orloff, whose previous work includes "A Mighty Heart", as well as two episodes of "Band of Brothers".