Library of Congress to scale back Twitter archive 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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
Government reveals $5.4m cut to OzCo in MYEFO Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The federal government revealed a $5.4m funding cut to the Australia Council in its 2017-18 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) on 18 December 2017. The $1.8m per year over...
SWF announces earlier dates for 2018, 2019 Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The 2018 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) will be held from 30 April to 6 May—a month earlier than in previous years. The date change is due to the festival’s temporary...
Ismail wins Deborah Cass Prize 2017 Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Perth writer Rafeif Ismail has won Writers Victoria’s 2017 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ‘Almitra Amongst Ghosts’. ‘Almitra Amongst Ghosts’ was announced...
Goldsworthy wins Horne Prize 2017 Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop announced writer Kerryn Goldsworthy as the winner of the $15,000 Horne Prize 2017 for her essay, ‘The Limit of the World’. ‘The Limit of...
ABIAs 2018 date, venue announced Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held on Thursday, 3 May this year. This year’s awards will be held at the International Convention Centre Sydney to accommodate the...
Story Prize 2018 finalists announced Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
In the US, the three finalists for the 2018 Story Prize have been announced. The finalists are: The King is Always above the People (Daniel Alarcón, Riverhead Books) Homesick for...
The Charles Perkins Centre: Writer in Residence Fellowship 2018 Archive
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence Fellowship 2018 has been made possible thanks to the generosity of its inaugural Patron, Judy Harris. The fellowship will support an established Australian...
New Victorian commissions program for ‘ambitious, ground-breaking projects’ Archive
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
The Victorian state government is calling for applications for ‘ambitious, ground-breaking projects’, which could receive up to $1m in funding, as part of a new Creative Victoria program seeking to...
Please complete our post-Christmas survey Archive
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...
Pape tops 2017 bestsellers chart Archive
Monday, 8 January 2018
Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wiley) was the highest selling book in Australia in 2017, selling 438,000 copies, reports Fairfax. According to statistics provided by Nielsen BookScan, five of the...
PANZ to lead Bologna delegation Archive
Monday, 8 January 2018
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) will have a New Zealand collective stand for the first time at Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2018. With the support of Creative...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced Archive
Monday, 8 January 2018
The shortlists have been announced for this year’s Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government. The shortlisted works in each category are: Children’s Rockhopping (Trace...
Text acquires new YA debut Archive
Monday, 8 January 2018
Text has acquired world rights to debut author Kay Kerr’s YA novel, Please Don’t Hug Me. Kerr’s novel is a ‘contemporary coming-of-age tale’ about ‘a neuro-diverse and socially awkward year...
ANU Press titles reach two million downloads for the first time Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Australian National University’s (ANU) online publisher, ANU Press, has reached more than 2.3 million downloads of its titles in 2017. This is the first time the press has surpassed the...
Book blogger spotlight: Book Bloggers Australia Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Established in 2010 by blogger Margaret Bates, Book Bloggers Australia is an online directory and forum where Australian bloggers can discuss books and blogging, and connect with others in the...
Quote of the week Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
‘This is an industry with older, established men in the corner offices and young women working themselves to the ground in the cubicles, trying to earn themselves a break; that...
Melbourne Prize for Literature: registrations of interest now open Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
To register your interest to receive the Entry Guidelines for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 & Awards, please visit www.melbourneprize.org. With a prize pool over $100,000 plus a new...
Christmas predictions: Cat Schulz from Fullers Bookshop in Hobart Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our final instalment, Fullers...
Natasha Lester signs four-book UK deal Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Hachette Australia has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to four historical fiction novels by Natasha Lester to UK publisher Sphere. Rights were acquired by Sphere commissioning editor Viola...
Rights round-up Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German rights to The Fighting Season (Bram Connolly) to Festa Verlag. Brio has acquired world rights to The Drovers Wives (Ryan O’Neill) and world rights...
Oz middle-grade novel ‘The Shark Caller’ optioned for film Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Dianne Wolfer’s middle-grade novel The Shark Caller (Random House) has been optioned for film by New Zealand producers Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton at Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Wolfer’s...
Australian public library stats report for 2015-16 released Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) has released its annual Australian Public Libraries Statistical Report for the period 2015-2016. The report found that total expenditure on public libraries increased from...
New Australian fiction podcast ‘Six Cold Feet’ debuts Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Brisbane-based author J M Donellan has written a fiction anthology podcast called Six Cold Feet, which tells the story of River, who is looking for his recently disappeared sister in...
Echo acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s fiction backlist Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s Echo imprint has acquired world rights to bestselling novelist Blanche D’Alpuget’s backlist. Echo will publish the last two titles in D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series in...
Margaret Sullivan joins Pantera Press as nonfiction publisher Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Pantera Press is delighted to announce that Margie Sullivan will be commencing her role as Non-Fiction Publisher of Pantera Press and Lost the Plot in February 2018. Margie began her...
Lonely Planet Christmas delivery dispatch dates Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Please note this year's delivery dispatch dates to ensure early delivery prior to Christmas. WA, Perth, QLD Regional—11am Friday 15th Brisbane, Adelaide, SA, NT, NSW Regional, VIC Regional, TAS—11am Monday...
Final ‘Weekly Book Newsletter’ for 2017, ‘Special Bulletin’ coming Archive
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Today’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2017. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2018 will be published on Wednesday 10 January. The last Daily Newsletter for 2017 was published on...
« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 Next page »
