Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Big international fiction releases are dominating the bestsellers chart, with three new titles making it into the top 10 in their first week. While American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle,...
Keneally wins OzCo Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Thomas Keneally is the recipient of the 2015 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.The award, formerly known as the Writers’ Emeritus Award, recognises ‘the achievements of eminent literary...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Kylie Scott was named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the second year in a row at the 2014 Australian Romance Readers Awards in Canberra on 7 March.Scott also won awards for...
HarperCollins launches Spanish-language imprints
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
HarperCollins US is expanding its Spanish-language program by launching imprints HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins Español will publish around 50 titles each year for distribution in the...
Craig Potton Publishing changes name to Potton & Burton
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
New Zealand publishing house Craig Potton Publishing has changed its name to Potton & Burton to ‘reflect the increasingly diverse range of New Zealand books’ it publishes.Robbie Burton, co-owner and...
Report projects 8.3% decline in bookstore sales over five years; ABA queries methodology
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
An IbisWorld report has projected that bricks-and-mortar bookstores will record an average annual revenue decline of 8.3% in the five years from 2009-10 to 2014-15, according to Inside Retail.The same report projects a 5.9%...
writingWA releases tablet apps for illustrated Indigenous stories
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
writingWA has released two tablet apps based on illustrated stories by Indigenous writers, as part of its Project 360 initiative.Mamang is based on the picture book of the same name by...
Dean joins UQP
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
UQP has appointed Jessica Dean as marketing coordinator following the departure of marketing and publicity manager Meredene Hill. Dean, who has worked in marketing and publicity in publishing in London, will...
Wyld wins 2014 Barnes & Noble Discover Award
Friday, 6 March 2015
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) has won the 2014 Barnes & Noble (B&N) Discover Great New Writers Award in the category of fiction. Wyld will receive US$10,000 (A$12,867)...
Grant delivers keynote at UK independent publishing conference
Friday, 6 March 2015
Hardie Grant Books chief executive Sandy Grant has delivered the keynote address at this year’s Independent Publishers Guild spring conference in Oxfordshire, UK, reports the Bookseller. In his keynote, Grant...
Kinney to open bookstore in US
Friday, 6 March 2015
US children’s author Jeff Kinney is opening a bookstore in the town of Plainville, outside of Boston, Massachusetts, reports the Boston Globe. ‘The reason that we wanted to create a bookstore in...
ABA announces 2015 conference program, partnership with Miles Franklin Award
Friday, 6 March 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the program for this year’s conference, to be held at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 17-18 May. Hiroshi Sogo, director of...
No ‘B+P Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 6 March 2015
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday 9 March in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, the Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on that day.
Small publisher sells via ‘pay what you want’ model
Thursday, 5 March 2015
In the US, small publisher Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is pre-selling a title using a ‘pay what you want’ model, reports Flavorwire. Print copies of poet Noah Eli Gordon’s book...
St Leger to leave the Copyright Agency
Thursday, 5 March 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced that CEO Murray St Leger will leave the company in July.St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian...
Johnson wins RBC Taylor Prize for nonfiction
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
In Canada, Plum Johnson has won the RBC Taylor Prize for nonfiction for her memoir They Left Us Everything (Penguin Canada), reports Publishers Weekly. The jury described the book, which...
German independent bookshops to launch online store
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
An alliance of 600 German independent bookstores will launch online store Genialokal.de on 12 March, the first day of the Leipzig Book Fair, reports The Bookseller. Positioned as a possible competitor...
Run, Pip, Run (J C Jones, A&U)
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
When you’re not quite a teenager, some books have the ability to shape you and to shake you. Classics such as Cynthia Voight’s Homecoming and Judy Blume’s Blubber tackled powerful...
Thirst (Lizzie Wilcock, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Karanda is on her way to her sixth foster home when a car crash leaves her stranded in the middle of the desert, her only company fellow foster child Solomon....
Stay with Me (Maureen McCarthy, A&U)
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Tess came to Byron Bay as a lost 17-year-old and met a guy who looked like a rock star. When he started to hit her, she was already in too...
Just a Queen (Jane Caro, UQP)
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
This follow-up to Just a Girl opens with Queen Elizabeth mourning the death of her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. As Queen Elizabeth recounts her reign so far and the...
88 Lime Street: The Way in (Denise Kirby, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Before Ellen has even walked through the door of her new house—an old mansion with actual towers—she senses there may be more to it than meets the eye. When the...
The poet’s market: on print sales of poetry titles
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
The poetry scene might be flourishing with slams and spoken-word events, but print sales remain in the low hundreds for most titles, writes Hilary Simmons. Read her article here.
International library news
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
US libraries concerned about lack of Kindle ebook titles through OverDriveA number of US libraries have expressed concern that the majority of new ebook titles from library supplier OverDrive are...
Melbourne Cricket Club Library expands online services
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) Library has replaced its library management system with Softlink’s Australian-based cloud-hosting service, Liberty. The new service provides online access to the library’s extensive collection of...
Proposal to cut WA state library hours
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
The State Library of WA (SLWA) is considering cuts to its opening hours, including closing the library on weekends and earlier during the week, in a bid to meet the...
Lisa Gorton’s ‘The Life of Houses’
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Gorton’s ability to describe the inner worlds of her characters creates moments of breathtaking insight on almost every page. The writing is graceful and accessible, and Gorton’s skill with plot is particularly...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
‘Newman condemned himself to being published outside of Queensland when he axed the Awards. Perhaps his future memoir will reflect on this with the benefit of hindsight’—Macquarie University creative writing...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 12 March.The deadline for classifieds and...
Beveridge appointed BWF festival director, acting CEO
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
The Brisbane Writers Festival has appointed Julie Beveridge as 2015 festival director and acting CEO. She replaces Kate Eltham, who is taking maternity leave from mid-March. (See news.)
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