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Bonnier UK romance imprint Totally Entwined launches online store, self-publishing platform Archive

Thursday, 29 June 2017
In the UK, Bonnier Publishing’s romance imprint Totally Entwined has launched an online store and self-publishing platform called First for Romance, reports the Bookseller. The store will sell titles from...

Copyright Agency, industry groups launch new campaign against fair use Archive

Thursday, 29 June 2017
The Copyright Agency and industry groups including the Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors and Books Create Australia have launched #FreeIsNotFair, a new campaign against the Productivity Commission’s recommendation...

Berry, Bruce win inaugural Woollahra Digital Literary Awards Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Vanessa Berry and Melissa Bruce have won the inaugural Woollahra Digital Literary Awards for writing that was first published online or electronically. Berry won the nonfiction category for her essay...

Colin Roderick Award 2017 shortlist announced Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The...

Rights round-up Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold US and UK English-language rights to The Hope Fault (Tracy Farr) to Gallic Books imprint Aardvark Bureau. Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and...

Millennials most likely to use public libraries: Pew Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
In the US, a Pew Research Center report has found that millennials (aged 18-35) are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other...

ALA, Google announce new grants program to teach computer skills in libraries Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced a new US$500,000 (A$658,200) competitive grants program to teach computer skills in libraries, reports Publishers Weekly. The program, which is...

Wavesound launches new audiobook, magazine and ebook app for libraries Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Wavesound will launch RBdigital, a new app where library members can access audiobooks, magazines and ebooks, in Australia on 28 June. The app combines the features of the current OneClickdigital...

Three Geelong libraries to stay open until mid-2018 Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Three Geelong libraries have been offered a one-year reprieve from the Geelong City Council, which has backed away from its decision to close them by the end of September, reports...

‘Ada Twist’ wins 2017 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts (Abrams) has won the 2017 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award in the UK for radical children’s fiction, reports the...

Twelfth Planet Press reaches $20,000 Kickstarter goal for new anthology Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Genre publisher Twelfth Planet Press has reached its $20,000 Kickstarter campaign goal to produce Mother of Invention, an ‘ambitious’ anthology of stories about gender as it relates to artificial intelligence...

Black Inc. signs Deborah Cass prize winner Giovannoni; acquires new books by Hunt, De Kretser Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Black Inc. has acquired 2015 Deborah Cass award winner Moreno Giovannoni’s book of linked tales about a Tuscan village and the lives of its occupants, Tales of San Ginese. World rights...

‘The Cake and the Rain’—Jimmy Webb Archive

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
The Cake and the Rain: ISBN 978-1-78558-618-7 Omnibus Press $49.95 is available now from Woodslane. Jimmy Webb plays Melbourne on June 27th, Sydney June 29th and Perth July 1st. The...

Government boosts funding for ArtsReady internship program Archive

Tuesday, 27 June 2017
The federal government has announced an additional $200,000 in funding for its ArtsReady internship program, which assists arts and culture sector employers in providing 12-month traineeships to graduates. ArtsReady offers...

A&U acquires second book from Clementine Ford Archive

Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired a second book from Fight Like a Girl author Clementine Ford, to be published in late 2018. Boys Will Be Boys ‘will examine toxic...

Antidote festival to replace Festival of Dangerous Ideas Archive

Tuesday, 27 June 2017
The Sydney Opera House will host a new two-day festival dedicated to progressive ideas and activism from 2-3 September. The Antidote festival replaces the Sydney Opera House’s Festival of Dangerous...

B&N sales fall 6.5% in fiscal 2017 Archive

Monday, 26 June 2017
Barnes & Noble (B&N) reported a 6.5% sales decline in the fiscal year ending 29 April 2017, with sales falling to US$3.89bn (A$5.1bn), reports Publishers Weekly. Operating income for the...

Writers Victoria announces $300,000 literary travel fund Archive

Monday, 26 June 2017
Writers Victoria has announced a new literary travel fund, providing $300,000 in grants to writers, editors, agents, publishers, booksellers and other literary professionals over the next three years. The travel...

Spufford wins 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize Archive

Friday, 23 June 2017
Francis Spufford has won the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists for Golden Hill (Faber). The winning novel, which is set in 18th-century New York, has already won the...

PRH to publish new John Green book in October Archive

Friday, 23 June 2017
Penguin Random House is publishing a new YA novel by US author John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, in October. The book is Green’s first since The Fault in...

The ‘Monthly’ to increase online reviews in ‘conscious move’ to counter media’s decreased arts coverage Archive

Friday, 23 June 2017
The Monthly magazine will increase its online arts and culture reviews, including books, films, TV, theatre, music and art, in a ‘conscious move to counter the decrease in media coverage...

Spinifex acquires local rights to three new international titles Archive

Thursday, 22 June 2017
Spinifex Press has recently acquired ANZ rights to three new international titles, include UK author Jules Grant’s Steel Dagger Award-longlisted debut crime novel We Go Around in the Night and Are...

Agualusa wins 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Archive

Thursday, 22 June 2017
Angolan writer Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion (trans by Daniel Hahn, Vintage) has won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Agualusa's novel about an exiled Portuguese woman who has bricked herself...