Penguin Random House Canada distribution to merge
Date: 24 September 2014Category: International news
Distribution for Penguin Canada books will move from Pearson Canada’s warehouse in Newmarket, Ontario, to Random House’s Canada warehouses, reports Publishers Weekly. The move is expected to take place in... Read more
Susan Hawthorne’s ‘Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing’
Date: 24 September 2014Category:
In 2002 I attended the launch of Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity and later used it as an economics text. In that book Hawthorne put the case... Read more
Behind the scenes with Scholastic publisher and Snappyant co-director Ana Vivas
Date: 24 September 2014Category:
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablets. ‘In 2010, I downloaded an app on my iPhone called Peekaboo... Read more
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Date: 24 September 2014Category: Local news
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has... Read more
Penguin Random House NZ announces new leadership team
Date: 24 September 2014Category: Local news
Penguin Random House New Zealand has announced a number of appointments to its leadership team.Carrie Welch, general manger of sales and business development at Penguin NZ, will take on the... Read more
Helen Razer & Bernard Keane’s ‘A Short History of Stupid’
Date: 24 September 2014Category:
A Short History of Stupid is concerned with the rise of Stupidity in a world ruled by ‘fade-resistant individualism’, extreme paternalism, political condescension, conspicuous compassion and ‘the injurious yoga class... Read more
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Date: 23 September 2014Category: Fancy Goods
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has... Read more
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Date: 23 September 2014Category: Local news
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Premier Colin Barnett on 23 September.Richard Flanagan was awarded the $25,000 Premier’s Prize for Narrow Road to... Read more
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Date: 23 September 2014Category: Local news
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has... Read more
Bestsellers this week
Date: 22 September 2014Category: Local news
The film tie-in edition of Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Hachette), released ahead of the film adaptation on 2 October, has entered the bestsellers chart in fourth spot, and is this week’s highest new entry.... Read more
WA Premier’s Book Awards announced tonight
Date: 22 September 2014Category: Local news
The winners of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will be announced tonight in Perth. Michelle de Kretser won last year’s Premier’s Prize. The name of the awards has since... Read more
Competition policy panel recommends review of parallel importation restrictions; ABA, APA respond
Date: 22 September 2014Category: Local news
The Competition Policy Review Panel has released a draft report recommending the review of regulations ‘restricting competition’ in key areas, including parallel importation. The panel, formed by the Coalition government... Read more
Sherwin-Stark and Ractliffe appointed joint MDs of Hachette Australia
Date: 19 September 2014Category: Local news
Louise Sherwin-Stark and Justin Ractliffe have been appointed joint managing directors of Hachette Australia.Sherwin-Stark, formerly sales and product director, will be responsible for sales and product, and digital sales, and... Read more
BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced
Date: 18 September 2014Category: International news
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award. The shortlisted writers and their short stories are: Zadie Smith for ‘Miss Adele amidst the Corsets’; Rose... Read more
Foley to leave Hachette
Date: 17 September 2014Category: Local news
Bernadette Foley, publisher at Hachette Australia, has announced she is leaving the company. Foley told Books+Publishing that, after 10 years at Hachette and 25 in the publishing industry, she was... Read more
Erik Jensen’s ‘Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen’
Date: 17 September 2014Category:
Susannah Chambers on being an editor in New York
Date: 17 September 2014Category:
Changes to Hachette publishing team
Date: 17 September 2014Category: Moves/personnel
Quote of the week
Date: 17 September 2014Category: Local news
Johnson to leave S&S
Date: 17 September 2014Category: Moves/personnel
‘The Brothers Quibble’ selected for 2015 National Simultaneous Storytime
Date: 17 September 2014Category: Library news
Watkins, Hamley appointed nonfiction publishers at Hachette, Foley to leave
Date: 16 September 2014Category: Local news
Bestsellers this week
Date: 15 September 2014Category: Local news
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2014 shortlist announced
Date: 15 September 2014Category: Local news
McClintock re-joins Booked Out Speakers Agency
Date: 15 September 2014Category: Moves/personnel
Co-op to open stores at James Cook University
Date: 12 September 2014Category: Local news
Flanagan on Man Booker Prize shortlist
Date: 10 September 2014Category: Local news
Judith Rossell’s ‘Withering-by-Sea’
Date: 10 September 2014Category:
Increased attendance, ‘record’ book sales at Brisbane Writers Festival
Date: 10 September 2014Category: Local news
Is social media worth the effort?
Date: 10 September 2014Category:
Webster appointed SPN chair
Date: 10 September 2014Category: Moves/personnel
Horgan joins Boffins
Date: 10 September 2014Category: Moves/personnel
Penguin Random House NZ to merge offices, close Random House NZ distribution centre
Date: 9 September 2014Category: Local news
Man Booker 2014 shortlist announced tonight
Date: 9 September 2014Category: Local news
Horgan joins Boffins
Date: 9 September 2014Category: Local news
McKinty, Safran win 2014 Ned Kelly Awards
Date: 8 September 2014Category: Local news
Lucashenko wins 2014 Vic Prem’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing
Date: 4 September 2014Category: Local news
Authors to earn higher royalties through new HarperCollins UK website
Date: 4 September 2014Category: International news
Wilderness Society children’s book award winners announced
Date: 3 September 2014Category: Local news
Indigenous Literacy Day today
Date: 3 September 2014Category: Local news
Brisbane Writers Festival kicks off
Date: 3 September 2014Category: Local news
Bray says: Philip Bray from Brays Books on 45 years of bookselling, and the future
Date: 3 September 2014Category:
Steve Kilbey’s ‘Something Quite Peculiar’
Date: 3 September 2014Category:
McIlvanney wins 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award
Date: 1 September 2014Category: Local news
Bestsellers this week
Date: 1 September 2014Category: Local news
Notions Unlimited bookstore closes
Date: 1 September 2014Category: Local news
Davitt Awards 2014 winners announced
Date: 1 September 2014Category: Local news
NZ Post Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Date: 28 August 2014Category: Local news
Catton to set up reading grant for NZ writers
Date: 28 August 2014Category: Local news
Seaton and Herft join ABA management committee
Date: 28 August 2014Category: Local news
‘Overland’ Story Wine Prize shortlist announced
Date: 27 August 2014Category: Local news
Scribe acquires crime thrillers
Date: 27 August 2014Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014 shortlist announced
Date: 27 August 2014Category: Local news
Andrew Rule’s ‘Kerry Stokes’
Date: 27 August 2014Category:
International library news
Date: 27 August 2014Category: Library news
Innovation, interrupted: Zoe Dattner on the trouble with digital publishing start-ups
Date: 27 August 2014Category:
Hinkler sells Engage Literacy to Capstone
Date: 27 August 2014Category: Local news
Quote of the week
Date: 27 August 2014Category: Local news
Hardie Grant Publishing: 30% of revenue now ‘in international or digital markets’
Date: 26 August 2014Category: Local news
Fraser wins 2014 John Button Prize
Date: 25 August 2014Category: Local news
Bestsellers this week
Date: 25 August 2014Category: Local news
Australian Book Design Awards 2014 winners announced
Date: 25 August 2014Category: Local news
Peter Blazey Fellowship, Ernest Scott, Wesley Michel Wright and Affirm Press Creative Writing prizes presented
Date: 25 August 2014Category: Local news
Inky Awards 2014 shortlists announced
Date: 25 August 2014Category: Local news
John Button Prize 2014 shortlist announced
Date: 22 August 2014Category: Local news
HarperCollins results: children’s books have their ‘strongest year ever’
Date: 21 August 2014Category: Local news
Barnes & Noble unveils co-branded Samsung/Nook tablet
Date: 21 August 2014Category: International news
WHSmith UK stocks Amazon Publishing titles
Date: 21 August 2014Category: International news
SLQ to run Queensland Literary Awards; 2014 awards open for entries
Date: 20 August 2014Category: Local news
Claire Atkins’ ‘Nona & Me’
Date: 20 August 2014Category:
At your service: The growth in self-publishing support services
Date: 20 August 2014Category:
New Holland recalls Jill Meagher book
Date: 20 August 2014Category: Local news
Shosanya appointed CEO of Paper Plus
Date: 20 August 2014Category: Local news
Shosanya appointed CEO of Paper Plus
Date: 20 August 2014Category: Moves/personnel
Ryding appointed director of Melbourne City of Literature office
Date: 20 August 2014Category: Moves/personnel
Quote of the week
Date: 20 August 2014Category: Local news
Six-year funding for organisations as part of new Australia Council grants model
Date: 19 August 2014Category: Local news
Judge orders mediation in ebook price-fixing suit
Date: 18 August 2014Category: International news
Bestsellers this week
Date: 18 August 2014Category: Local news
Ryding appointed director of Melbourne City of Literature office
Date: 18 August 2014Category: Local news
‘The Great Bible Swindle’ wins Australian Christian Book of the Year Award
Date: 18 August 2014Category: Local news
CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2014 winners announced
Date: 15 August 2014Category: Local news
Nelson awarded Sri Lankan writing fellowship
Date: 13 August 2014Category: Local news
Former Book Depository MD launches Best Little Bookshop
Date: 13 August 2014Category: International news
Ask Agatha: Readings launches an advice column
Date: 13 August 2014Category:
Peter Carey’s ‘Amnesia’
Date: 13 August 2014Category:
Inbooks to close in October
Date: 13 August 2014Category: Local news
Bestsellers this week
Date: 11 August 2014Category: Local news
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2014 shortlists announced
Date: 11 August 2014Category: Local news
McFarlane longlisted for ‘Guardian’ First Book Award
Date: 11 August 2014Category: Local news
Bookworld partners with ABDA for ‘people’s choice’ book design award
Date: 8 August 2014Category: Local news
Book reviews, extracts to feature in ‘Womankind’ magazine
Date: 8 August 2014Category: Local news
Hachette, Ingram call off deal to buy Perseus
Date: 8 August 2014Category: International news
Your Bookshop to be event bookseller at Book Expo Australia
Date: 8 August 2014Category: Local news
Barnes & Noble partners with Google for same-day delivery in three US cities
Date: 8 August 2014Category: International news
Black Inc. to publish swimmer Leisel Jones’ memoir
Date: 7 August 2014Category: Local news
Helen Garner’s ‘This House of Grief’
Date: 6 August 2014Category:
App, app and away: Australian interactive ebooks and apps for children
Date: 6 August 2014Category:
Bob Brown title bestselling book ever at Byron Bay Writers Festival
Date: 5 August 2014Category: Local news