‘When the Ground is Hard’ wins LA Times Book Prize for YA Archive
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
When the Ground is Hard by Sydney-based writer Malla Nunn (A&U) has won the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young adult literature. Nunn was shortlisted for the award...
Editors NSW online meeting Archive
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
By Zoom: News—good, bad, fake? What Corpora can tell us about language usage Corpora—large collections of language as it is used, marked up to support a wide range of searches—are...
Change for Argonautica Press Archive
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Publisher: Argonautica Press Old distributor: No previous distributor New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 May 2020 Contact URL: bookstores.novelladistribution.com.au
Writing WA moves Love to Read Local campaign forward amid Covid-19 Archive
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Writing WA’s Love to Read Local initiative, originally intended as a week-long celebration of WA books and storytelling scheduled for May, has been adapted and brought forward in response to...
International Booker postponed amid distribution disruption Archive
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The Booker Prize Foundation has postponed the International Booker Prize winner announcement due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The award was originally set to be announced on 19 May, but will...
Shortlist for £10,000 Ondaatje Prize announced Archive
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The 2020 shortlist for the £10,000 (A$19,520) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises books ‘of the highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best...
ANZ writers shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize Archive
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
One Australian and two New Zealand writers are among the finalists for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Australian writer Andrea E Macleod was shortlisted for her story ‘The Art...
Booked Out launches virtual visits with Copyright Agency funding Archive
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The speakers agency Booked Out has received funding from the Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 emergency funding to run a new project during Term two. 'Reaching Out' is a discrete project that...
‘A Treacherous Country’ wins 2020 Vogel Archive
Monday, 20 April 2020
A Treacherous Country by K M Kruimink is the winner of the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Publisher...
PW launches #BooksAreEssential campaign Archive
Monday, 20 April 2020
US trade publication Publishers Weekly (PW) has launched a new social media campaign to promote the importance of books. The #BooksAreEssential hashtag was created in response to the shutdown of...
Bloomsbury announces salary reductions, issues shares in response to Covid-19 Archive
Monday, 20 April 2020
Bloomsbury Australia’s parent company in the UK has asked the majority of employees to take a pay cut for three months, while Friday afternoons will be paid time off for...
Hardie Grant to refer unauthorised distribution of Turnbull memoir to AFP Archive
Monday, 20 April 2020
Hardie Grant Publishing will refer the alleged distribution of a pirated edition of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir A Bigger Picture to the Australian Federal Police. 'The nature and breadth of this...
Five ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize Archive
Monday, 20 April 2020
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Hardie Grant Egmont and Windy Hollow Books, and New Zealand's Huia Publishers and Oratia Media, have been shortlisted for the 2020 Bologna Prize for Best Children’s...
Court limits Amazon France to delivery of essential items Archive
Friday, 17 April 2020
In France, Amazon has closed six of its warehouses after a court ruling stopped the delivery of nonessential items, reports the Bookseller. The court in Nanterre found that Amazon had...
ASA, ALIA and APA launch list to connect authors with schools, libraries Archive
Friday, 17 April 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), Australian Publishers Association and Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have collaborated to develop a new online listing of authors and illustrators available for...
Jess Hill on why we need to openly discuss domestic abuse Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
'Part of the Australian story has been our struggle to face the difficult truths of our recent history. To me this is a book about what happens when there’s nothing...
Lonely Planet shutters Melbourne office, industry adapts to lockdown and more Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic made itself known this week, with the news Lonely Planet reduced its publishing operations with immediate effect, including essentially shuttering its Melbourne and...
The Walker Books Group announces sequel to classic international bestseller ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
The Walker Books Group announces the global publication on September 29 2020, of Will You Be My Friend?, a sequel to the beloved picture book Guess How Much I Love...
Change for Shawline Publishing Group Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 March 2020 Contact: via website.
Changes at Books+Publishing Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Owner and publisher of Books+Publishing Gary Pengelly writes: ‘Like everyone in the industry at this time, Books+Publishing continues to look for ways to contribute to the Australian bookselling and publishing...
Aissaoui wins US$50k International Prize for Arabic Fiction Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Algerian author Abdelouahab Aissaoui has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Spartan Court, which tells the story of the French campaign against Algiers in...
McKinty, McTiernan shortlisted for international thriller award Archive
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Adrian McKinty and Dervla McTiernan have been shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Awards 2020. McKinty was shortlisted for the best hardcover novel for his book The Chain (Hachette),...
MWF 2020 to take place online Archive
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which is scheduled to run 7–16 August 2020, will deliver a smaller online program due to the Covid-19 crisis. 'Our team is at home thinking, reading...
PRH Spain introduces online direct sales platform Archive
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
In Spain, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched Mugustaleer, a direct sales ecommerce platform for print books, after several weeks of country-wide lockdown measures that have included bookshop closures. Ten...
Shortlist announced for 2020 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers Archive
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
The shortlist for the UK’s Jhalak Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Black Flamingo (Dean Atta, Hodder Children’s) Remembered...
ABA launches new website as authors, booksellers and publishers adapt to business under lockdown Archive
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Australia’s booksellers, publishers, authors and industry bodies are seeking new and different ways to connect with readers during the Covid-19 restrictions. ABA launches new Love Your Bookshop site The Australian...
Heath wins IBBY Ena Noël award Archive
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Jack Heath has won the 2020 Ena Noël Award, a biennial prize administered by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to encourage emerging...
Hill wins 2020 Stella Prize for ‘See What You Made Me Do’ Archive
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Jess Hill has won the 2020 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her investigation of domestic violence See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc.). Judging panel chair Louise Swinn said See...
HarperCollins UK puts staff on furlough Archive
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
HarperCollins UK is placing a number of its staff on furlough, reports the Bookseller. The number of staff to be put on furlough is unconfirmed, but it includes those from...
Bookshops adapt to change: tell us your story Archive
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
We know the situation for retailers is changing daily amid Covid-19 restrictions. We also know that many booksellers, in finding new ways to connect with customers, are experiencing wonderful community...
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