ARC funding for project exploring authorship and copyright
Friday, 20 October 2017
Monash University legal academic Rebecca Giblin and a team of researchers have received Australian Research Council funding for the project ‘Reclaiming copyright’s lost value for authors and the public’. The...
Writers among the recipients of the 2017 New Zealand Arts Awards
Friday, 20 October 2017
A number of writers and illustrators are among the 11 recipients of the 2017 New Zealand Arts Awards, presented by the New Zealand Arts Foundation. Poet Hera Lindsay Bird was...
Rushdie to headline Melbourne’s Global Atheist Convention in 2018
Friday, 20 October 2017
UK author Salman Rushdie will headline the 2018 Global Atheist Convention, which runs from 9-11 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. International guests also include UK author Richard...
Introducing New Frontier
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Established in Australia in 2002, New Frontier Publishing specialises in children’s books for the trade and the educational market. In 2017 the publisher opened a UK office and in 2018...
Authors announced for NZ Festival
Thursday, 19 October 2017
The New Zealand Festival in Wellington has announced the authors appearing at its Writers and Readers stream, which runs from 8-11 March 2018. Among the international guests are US sci-fi...
Pug picture book tops bestsellers chart
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian picture book bestsellers chart for September is dominated by Aaron Blabey and Mem Fox, with the exception of Nick Bland’s The Very Sleepy Bear—a follow-up to Bland’s 2008...
Multiple awards for ‘Words in Deep Blue’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)—a love story between estranged best friends set in a Melbourne secondhand bookshop—has picked up multiple awards in the past few...
Australian children’s books selected for international catalogues
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Several Australian children’s and YA books will soon be getting greater international exposure after being included in the prestigious IBBY Honour List and White Ravens catalogue. Two refugee stories—the YA...
A&U acquires feminist picture book ‘Our Little Inventor’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Australian illustrator and designer Sher Rill Ng’s debut picture book Our Little Inventor via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management, to...
RBmedia announces launch of Audiobooks.com in Australia
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Audiobooks.com, the second largest provider of audiobooks in North America, launched in Australia today Audiobooks.com owner, RBmedia, builds on 5 years of Australian success with leading audiobook publisher Wavesound The...
‘The Shortest History of Europe’ sells over 300,000 copies in China
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Sales for the Chinese edition of Australian historian John Hirst’s The Shortest History of Europe (Black Inc.) have hit over 300,000 units in China. While Black Inc. originally sold simplified...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
‘We got books on television and we made it work. It lasted as long as we wanted it to. That’s a great triumph because there were many that said it...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Mira Robertson) to Wavesound. Brow Books has sold world rights to The Town (Shaun Prescott) to Faber. (See...
ALIA trend report: more jobs for librarians by 2022
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has published its fourth annual Education, Skills and Employment Trend Report, which forecasts a modest increase in the number of qualified positions available...
SIMON & SCHUSTER AUSTRALIA TO DISTRIBUTE ELLIOTT & THOMPSON
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with Elliott & Thompson in Australia and New Zealand.Elliott & Thompson is a London-based independent publisher...
FNAWN condemns HSC students’ abuse of van Neerven
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) has condemned the online abuse of writer Ellen van Neerven after a poem from her 2016 collection, Comfort Food (UQP), appeared on the...
RB Media launches Audiobooks.com in Australia
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Audiobook publisher and digital media distributor RB Media, which owns Australian audiobook provider Wavesound, has launched its streaming and downloading service Audiobooks.com in Australia today. RB Media is offering new...
Copyright Council publishes new report on economic contribution of copyright industries
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian Copyright Council (ACC) has published a report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers on the economic contribution of Australian copyright industries from 2002-2016, the fifth report of its kind commissioned by...
Jeff ‘The Hornet’ Horn awarded The Don
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
ABC Books congratulates Jeff Horn, Australia’s newly-crowned world welterweight boxing champion, on being awarded one of the highest honours in Australian sport: The Don award. Jeff Horn’s memoir The Hornet:...
New memoir scholarship and St Albans Writers’ Festival residency
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The 2018 Faber Writing Academy scholarships competition is now open. Our scholarships enable the winning students to enrol in our flagship courses for free. There’s two important additions this year:...
Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker Prize
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
US short-story writer George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury). Chair of judges Baroness Lola Young described the novel—which ‘focuses...
British Library’s Harry Potter exhibition sells most advance tickets ever
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
In the UK, a Harry Potter exhibition at the British Library set to open on 20 October has sold more than 30,000 tickets, the highest ever number of advance tickets...
MidnightSun acquires debut novel ‘Beneath the Mother Tree’
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to playwright and radio dramatist D M Cameron’s debut novel Beneath the Mother Tree for publication in 2018. Beneath the Mother Tree is a ‘fast-paced’...
Burch wins inaugural Victorian Premier’s History Award for ‘Returning the Kulkyne’
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
John Burch has won the inaugural Victorian Premier’s History Award, worth $5000, for his book Returning the Kulkyne, announced as part of the Victorian Community History Awards in Melbourne on...
‘Dark Chapter’ wins 2017 Not the Booker Prize
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Dark Chapter (Legend Press), the debut novel from UK-based Taiwanese-American writer Winnie M Li, has won the Guardian’s 2017 Not the Booker Prize. Li’s novel, a ‘vivid account of the...
Hachette closes Weinstein Books imprint
Monday, 16 October 2017
In the US, the Hachette Book Group (HBG) announced it will terminate its Weinstein Books imprint, effective immediately, reports Publishers Weekly. The decision follows reports exposing decades of sexual assault...
Feminist Writers Festival receives state government funding for 2018 event
Monday, 16 October 2017
The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has received $45,000 in funding from the Victorian Government to stage its second festival in 2018. The four-day festival will be held in Melbourne and...
ABA to hold 2018 conference in Canberra
Monday, 16 October 2017
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will hold its 2018 conference in Canberra on 17-18 June. The conference and trade exhibition will be held at the QT Hotel and the gala...
Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2017 White Ravens list
Friday, 13 October 2017
Several books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2017 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. The Australian titles on the...
A&U acquires feminist ‘little inventor’ picture book
Friday, 13 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Melbourne-based illustrator and designer Sher Rill Ng’s debut picture book, Our Little Inventor via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management. The...
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