Stephen King signs for new novel with Hard Case Crime

Titan Books' line of pulp novels, Hard Case Crime, will be releasing a new Stephen King novel called Joyland in June 2013. The book is set in a North Carolina amusement park in 1973. The title will mark King's second book with Hard Case, after the bestseller, The Colorado Kid. Joyland will not be published digitally, and will appear in paperback only

Authors demand protection from royalty-cutting book chains (Israel)

Over 270 writers, translators and editors signed a letter to Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat, urging her to continue pressing for protection of Israeli authors' royalties

Winging it?

Young Bookseller of the Year Katie Clapham tells us the story of setting up an independent children's bookshop, Storytellers Inc.

The Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 winner

American author Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury). 2012 marks the seventeenth year of the Orange Prize, which celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world. At an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London - hosted by Orange Prize for Fiction Co-Founder and Honorary Director, Kate Mosse - the 2012 Chair of Judges, Joanna Trollope, presented the author with the £30,000 prize and the 'Bessie', a limited edition bronze figurine. Both are anonymously endowed

Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2012 winner

Rukhsana Yasmin, a physicist turned publisher, was named the winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2012 after just five years in the trade

Podcast: 2012: Global Market Forum at BEA to Celebrate Publishing in Russia

At this year's BookExpo America, the annual Global Market Forum will shine a spotlight on Publishing in Russia. Rich in literary tradition and known for being one of the most well read societies, Russia has a robust publishing industry and a growing digital audience! In this podcast interview we catch up with Steven Rosato, BEA Event Director, who shares his excitement over the one-day Read Russia conference

Podcast: 2012: BEA Education Evolves with Publishing Industry

With the explosion of ebooks, self-publishing, and social media, the publishing world is nearly unrecognizable from just a few years ago. And as our industry evolves, BEA Education is here to keep you up on tomorrow's trends today. In this podcast interview we speak with Sally Dedecker, BEA Education Director, about what her team has in store for BEA 2012 attendees

"Google" – The first Google image for every word in the dictionary

If a picture says more than a thousand words - and current internet dynamics tend to agree - what would a visual guide to the English vocabulary, contemporary and 'webresentative', look like? Ben West and Felix Heyes, two artists and designers from London (UK), found out when they replaced the 21,000 words found in your everyday dictionary with whatever shows up first for each word in Google's image search. Behold Google - a 1240 page behemoth of JPGs, GIFs and PNGs in alphabetical order

London book and poetry events: 30 May - 5 June (UK)

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London this week

The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2012 winner

Rahul Bhattacharya has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize, for his debut novel The Sly Company of People Who Care (Picador)