UK Booksellers Association urges shops to go green
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
‘Booksellers can take the lead in their communities, and in the trade—where there is already a high awareness of the challenge—and the green manifesto is designed as a key step...
Vancouver Public Library banned from walking in Pride Parade
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
In Canada, the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) has banned the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) from walking in its annual Pride Parade, due to the library’s ‘decision to provide a platform...
National Archives needs funding doubled, 200 extra staff, claims panel
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
A government-appointed panel claims the National Archives needs its funding doubled and an extra 200 staff hired in order to survive, reports the Canberra Times. In a submission made to...
Holiday book haul: Junior Christmas 2019 preview
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Kelsey Oldham rounds up some local highlights from publishers’ 2019 Christmas lists. (See our adult fiction and nonfiction highlights here.) Aussie favourites Some of our most celebrated Australian children’s authors...
Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$88,875) prize are: The Testaments (Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, September) Night Boat...
Lorne Beach Books for sale
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Bookshop for sale Lorne Beach Books, Lorne, Vic Opened in 1999 by David and Meryl Bartak after 20 years of owning and operating Black Mask Books in Toorak Rd, South...
Murdoch Books to publish new book from feminist icon Gloria Steinem
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Murdoch Books is pleased to announce it will publish The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! by Gloria Steinem later this year, in Australia...
Update on the NewSouth move to ADS in Australia and New Zealand
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Please be advised booksellers should change their systems at COB on Thursday 25 July to order all NewSouth Books from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS). All backorders held at TLD will...
Inner Traditions/Bear & Company partners with Simon & Schuster
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with independent publisher, Inner Traditions/Bear & Company in Australia and New Zealand from 1 October 2019....
‘Stone Girl’ wins 2019 Readings YA book prize
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Eleni Hale has won the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her novel Stone Girl (Penguin). Hale’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $3000 prize,...
UK Booksellers Association launches green bookselling manifesto
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has launched ‘Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA, Booksellers and the Book Industry’, as it calls on the trade to reduce its...
Work begins on new edition of government style manual
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
The federal government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has appointed Canberra-based communications agency Ethos CRS to lead the development of the seventh edition of the Australian government’s Style Manual, which for...
Wakefield sells debut YA novel to US
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Wakefield Press has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to debut novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson (Poppy Nwosu) to Walker Books US for a five-figure sum. Wakefield publisher Margot Lloyd...
The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction shortlist announced
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Melbourne-based literary magazine The Lifted Brow and RMIT’s non/fictionLab have announced the shortlist for their Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Katerina Bryant, for ‘Where...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award shortlist announced
Monday, 22 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Shelley Burr for ‘Wake’ (fiction) Lisa Emanuel for...
Publishers, authors concerned over Audible’s audio-to-text program
Monday, 22 July 2019
In the US, publishers, literary agents and authors have expressed concern that Audible’s proposed program Captions, which transcribes audio to text alongside its audiobooks, infringes on rights holders, reports Publishers...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 22 July 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features...
Two women awarded Japan’s top literary awards
Friday, 19 July 2019
In Japan, novelists Natsuko Imamura and Masumi Oshima have been awarded two of the country’s top literary awards, reports Kyodo News. Imamura was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for her novel...
Inky Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Friday, 19 July 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by State Library Victoria (SLV) for local and international fiction, poetry, anthologies and graphic novels written...
Speech Pathology Book Awards shortlist announced
Thursday, 18 July 2019
The shortlists for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The books are judged on their ‘appeal to children, interactive quality and ability to assist...
Allen & Unwin launches children’s imprint; Blabey series tops ‘NYT’ chart
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Allen & Unwin has created a new children’s imprint called Albert Street Books, which will have a ‘strong commercial focus’. The publisher says its aim is to publish books for...
Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to ‘Love Your Body’
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Five Mile has sold UK, US and Canadian rights to Jessica Sanders’ picture book Love Your Body (illus by Carol Rossetti) to the Quarto Group, with the book now sold...
‘The Big Bad Wolf’ tops Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Aaron Blabey is having an exceptional month, with The Big Bad Wolf: The Bad Guys Episode Nine leading the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart in June and ‘The Bad Guys’...
Thompson wins 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘Rosewater’
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Tade Thompson’s Rosewater (Orbit) has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, reports the Guardian. Set in a future Africa, the events of Rosewater take place in a...
US audiobook sales up 25% in 2018
Thursday, 18 July 2019
In the US, the Audio Publishers Association (APA) has reported audiobook revenue in 2018 grew by 24.5% to total US$940 million (A$1.34b), reports Publishing Perspectives. Unit sales were up 27.3%,...
Educational Publishing Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). This year's awards feature a new category for scholarly nonfiction book of the...
RiP Kerry Reed-Gilbert
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Author, poet and Aboriginal activist Kerry Reed-Gilbert has died, aged 62. Reed-Gilbert was a Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist and artist. She was the author and editor of numerous works...
US libraries to boycott Blackstone audiobooks over new release embargo
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
In the US, a coalition of 44 public libraries in Washington state is organising a six-month boycott of Blackstone Publishing’s digital audiobooks to protest the company’s 90-day embargo on new...
Essex libraries saved after public protests
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
In the UK, Essex county council has dropped its plan to close 25 libraries, following months of protests from locals and support from authors including David Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson,...
Hidden in plain sight: Jane Curry on the role of the editor
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Ventura Press founder Jane Curry explores the role of the editor. 'Who’s the editor?’ I have only been asked this question once in my career and it was by a...
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