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Shoalhaven council to trial opening school libraries to the community Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Shoalhaven City Council on the NSW South Coast will trial opening school libraries to the wider community, reports the South Coast Register. Councilor Bob Proudfoot, who is also a Vincentia...

SLNSW launches online storybook in five Aboriginal languages for NAIDOC Week Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The State Library of NSW has launched a free online storybook written and spoken in five Aboriginal languages from across NSW to mark the beginning of NAIDOC Week, which runs...

We Need Diverse Books launches Our Story app to help discoverability Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
US advocacy group We Need Diverse Books has launched OurStory, an app to help readers discover diverse books, at the 2017 American Library Association annual conference in Chicago. The app...

Rights round-up Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Turkish rights to The Gene Thieves (Maria Quinn) to Pegasus Yayinevi. Penguin Random House has sold North American rights and UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights...

City of Sydney to waive fines for overdue loans Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
City of Sydney libraries are waiving fines for overdue loans until 30 June 2021 following a successful eight-month trial, reports News.com.au. Fees will still be charged for lost or damaged...

Publishing delegation travels to Seoul and Beijing Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
A delegation of Australian publishers travelled to Beijing and Seoul in June to ‘research market opportunities for authors and publishers in China and Korea’. Nerrilee Weir, senior rights manager for...

The Witching Hours Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Debut author Jack Henseleit’s The Witching Hours is the age-appropriate modern horror series the new generation of middle-grade readers have been waiting for. Publishing in August from Hardie Grant Egmont, book one The...

‘The Naked Witch’ available through Herron Distribution Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Rockpool Publishing and Herron Distribution are excited to announce the release of the Autobiography: The Naked Witch, ISBN 9781925429633 by best-selling author Fiona Horne. Extensive publicity throughout July/August across TV, Radio,...

Simon & Schuster now distributing Insight Editions Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with Insight Editions in Australia and New Zealand. Insight Editions creates illustrated books that celebrate cultural...

NewSouth Books congratulates authors on the National Biography Award shortlist Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
NewSouth Books is thrilled to offer congratulations to authors and publishers shortlisted for the prestigious award, including John Murphy’s Evatt: A Life (NewSouth Publishing), Georgina Arnott’s The Unknown Judith Wright...

NewSouth Books congratulates authors on the Colin Roderick Award shortlist Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
NewSouth Books is delighted to congratulate authors and publishers shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award, including Madeline Gleeson’s Offshore (NewSouth Publishing), Nick Earls’s Wisdom Tree: Five Novellas (Inkerman & Blunt),...

HarperCollins acquires rights to Carly Findlay memoir Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to Say Hello: How I Became the Hero of My Story by Australian writer, speaker and appearance activist Carly Findlay. Findlay, who has the...

Sudanese writer al-Fadil wins 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil has won the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story ‘The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away’, first published in The...

‘Small Things’ wins 2017 Gold Ledger Award Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The winners of the 2017 Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics and graphic novels were announced in Sydney on the 19 June. The winner of the Gold Ledger was...

Finalists announced for NZ’s Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Awards Archive

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The finalists have been announced for New Zealand’s Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Awards for 2017. The finalists in the two categories are: Published book Spilt Milk Yoga: A...

French publishing sales up in 2016 Archive

Tuesday, 4 July 2017
French publishing sales rose in 2016 by 4.25% to €2.8bn (A$4.16bn) according to figures from the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE), reports the Bookseller. Sales by volume...

Line-up announced for third St Albans Writers’ Festival Archive

Tuesday, 4 July 2017
The line-up has been announced for the third St Albans Writers’ Festival, which runs from 8-10 September in the village of St Albans in NSW. Journalist Tony Jones will deliver...

Shortlist announced for National Biography Award 2017 Archive

Monday, 3 July 2017
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works are: The Unknown Judith Wright (Georgina Arnott, UWA Publishing)...

Persuad wins Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize 2017 Archive

Monday, 3 July 2017
Ingrid Persaud from Trinidad and Tobago has won the 2017 Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize for ‘Sweet Sop’, reports the Bookseller. Persuad’s story explores ‘harrowing themes of fractured families, death...

Sharjah named World Book Capital for 2019 Archive

Monday, 3 July 2017
UNESCO has named Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as the World Book Capital for 2019. Sharjah was selected for its ‘very innovative, comprehensive and inclusive nature’ of its application,...

New $1.27m Creative Victoria ‘Creator’s Fund’ to offer grants to artists, organisations Archive

Monday, 3 July 2017
Creative Victoria has announced a new Creators Fund, which will offer grants of between $20,000-$50,000 to support individuals and creative collectives during the research and development phase of their projects....

Scribe to publish Sornig’s nonfiction book on Dudley Flats Archive

Monday, 3 July 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights to David Sornig’s Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp, a ‘social and psychogeographic history’ of the Depression-era shanty town west. The...

IPEd announces shortlist for inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award Archive

Monday, 3 July 2017
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the ‘Rosie’. The shortlisted editors are: Jacqueline Blanchard, for her work...

German company acquires Pubnet, PubEasy Archive

Friday, 30 June 2017
German service provider MVB Marketing, a subsidiary of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association Börsenverein, has purchased the US bookshop ordering systems Pubnet and PubEasy from NPD Group, reports Publishers...

NewSouth to represent Baker&Taylor’s Global Publishers Services in ANZ Archive

Friday, 30 June 2017
NewSouth Books will represent Baker & Taylor’s Global Publishers Services (GPS), which provides small and medium publishers with international sales and marketing services, in Australia and New Zealand. GPS distributes...

Traynor wins NT History Book Award for ‘Alice Springs’ Archive

Friday, 30 June 2017
Stuart Traynor has won the 2017 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award for his book Alice Springs: From Singing Wire to Iconic Outback Town (Wakefield Press). The judges said...

MUP withdraws ‘Cardinal’ from Victorian shops Archive

Friday, 30 June 2017
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is taking ‘all reasonable measures’ to withdraw Louise Milligan’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell from sale in Victorian bookshops, following the Victorian Police’s...

‘Guardian’ survey reveals sexism in publishing Archive

Friday, 30 June 2017
In the UK, a Guardian survey of 80 women and 12 men working in publishing has found that the majority of women feel they are being discriminated against because of their...

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