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Robinsons to open 10th Melbourne store

Thursday, 18 January 2018
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop is opening a new store in Plenty Valley Westfield in Melbourne’s north in March. Robinsons owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing that construction on the new...

Wheels in motion: new recruits at the Wheeler Centre

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Veronica Sullivan, Hiroki Kobayashi and Stella Charls recently joined the Wheeler Centre’s programming team, but many in the industry will already know these three from their previous work. Sullivan was...

Live performance repository AusStage in funding jeopardy

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Australia’s most comprehensive index of live performances, AusStage, is in jeopardy due to uncertain funding, reports InDaily. AusStage has been funded by grants from the Australian Research Council’s research infrastructure...

ALIA prepares for Library Lovers’ Day on 14 February

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) will host its annual Library Lovers’ Day on 14 February. The event will be launched by the Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Bulgarian rights to The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna) to Ednorog Publishers. Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German and Czech rights to Buddhism...

Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2018 shortlist announced

the logo for Writers Victoria Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Writers Victoria has announced the eight writers shortlisted for the 2018 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The shortlisted writers and...

German sales down 2% in 2017

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
German trade paper buchreport has reported sales were down for the German book industry in 2017, with value dropping two percent compared to 2016, reports the Bookseller. Christmas sales in...

Print book volume down by 4% in Canada in 2017

Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Print book sales in Canada have declined in 2017, with print book volume down by four percent and value down by three percent compared to 2016 figures. According to a...

Vuong wins 2017 T S Eliot Prize

Tuesday, 16 January 2018
American poet Ocean Vuong has won the 2017 T S Eliot Prize for poetry, reports the Guardian. Vuong won the prize for his debut collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds...

Indie Book Awards 2018 shortlist announced

Monday, 15 January 2018
Leading Edge Books has announced the 2018 Indie Book Awards shortlist, for the best Australian books published in 2017. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Force of Nature...

Affirm to boycott Australia Day public holiday

Monday, 15 January 2018
Affirm Press has announced it will boycott Australia Day on 26 January in support of the movement to change the date of the holiday to one that is more inclusive...

Maslen wins ‘KYD’ New Critic Award 2018

Monday, 15 January 2018
Writer and events producer Kylie Maslen has been named the winner of the 2018 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award. Maslen receives $3000 and will have five works of literary...

Quarto to consolidate adult trade imprints

Friday, 12 January 2018
In the UK, Quarto is merging its three adult trade imprints into one new imprint, White Lion Publishing, reports the Bookseller. The publishers’ imprints Aurum Press, Frances Lincoln and Quintessence...

Hardie Grant acquires Rowntree travel title

Friday, 12 January 2018
Hardie Grant has acquired a new illustrated guide on ocean and river cruises by Channel Nine’s Getaway presenter Catriona Rowntree. The Best of World Cruising will ‘focus on destinations and...

Lonely Planet Kids expands in US market

Friday, 12 January 2018
The children’s imprint of travel publisher Lonely Planet—Lonely Planet Kids—has announced several new appointments as part of its ongoing expansion in the US market, reports Publishers Weekly. Hanna Otero took...

PRH buys Rodale Books

Thursday, 11 January 2018
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has purchased the trade book publishing assets of wellness publisher Rodale Books from Hearst Corp, reports Publishers Weekly. Hearst, after announcing its acquisition...

Xoum announces 2017 XO Romance Prize shortlist

Thursday, 11 January 2018
Xoum Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works and their authors are: L Francis for ‘Legally Bound’, a ‘heartwarming...

Library of Congress to scale back Twitter archive

Wednesday, 10 January 2018
In the US, the Library of Congress will scale back its approach to collecting every message posted on Twitter, reports the Australian Financial Review. The Library of Congress had collected...

SLWA partners with Minderoo Foundation

Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The State Library of WA (SLWA) has partnered with Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation to develop a project that ‘retraces and reinterprets’ John Forrest’s 1874 trek from Geraldton to...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Turkish rights to The Mummy Bloggers (Holly Wainwright) to Hep Kitap. Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German and US English-language rights to Slow (Brooke...