Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2014
Friday, 12 December 2014
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily will be the last for 2014. The Daily will return on Monday 12 January. The Books+Publishing team wishes our subscribers all the best for the...
Majority of kids looking for books with humour, according to Scholastic report
Friday, 12 December 2014
Seventy-three percent of kids aged six to 17 say they would read more ‘if I could find more books that I like’ and another 70% say they want books that...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2015 shortlists announced
Friday, 12 December 2014
The 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary awards shortlists have been announced.The shortlisted titles are:Fiction Only the Animals (Ceridwen Dovey, Penguin) Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Penguin) The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw, Text)...
Alan Turing Institute for Data Science to be based at British Library
Thursday, 11 December 2014
In the UK, a new £42m (A$79m) Alan Turing Institute for Data Science will be based at the British Library at the centre of a new Knowledge Quarter, reports the...
Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award 2014 winner announced
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Missing Christopher: A Mother’s Story of Tragedy, Grief and Love by Jayne Newling (A&U) has won this year’s Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award.Newling was presented with the award at a...
Nielsen study finds teens lag adults in ebook uptake
Thursday, 11 December 2014
In the US, teen readers aged 13-17 are lagging behind adults when it comes to their uptake of ebooks, according to a study from Nielsen. The study found 20% of teens are purchasing...
Shortlist announced for 2014 T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Thursday, 11 December 2014
The authors shortlisted for the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award have been announced. The all-female shortlist consists of: Louise Allan Madelaine Dickie Portland Jones Mihaela Nicolescu Nicole Sinclair....
Sanders to leave ‘Meanjin’
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin is searching for a new editor after Zora Sanders announced she will leave the position in 2015.Sanders, who was promoted from deputy editor to editor in 2013, told...
Apple reveals 2014 top iBooks downloads for UK, US
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The Apple iBooks store has released lists of the most downloaded books of 2014 in the UK and the US. Reflecting the popularity of film tie-ins, the highest selling paid...
Shortlists for 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards announced
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards have been announced.The awards aim to ‘recognise, reward and promote writing by ACT region authors’ that has been published by...
In brief
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
NLA exhibition wins Canberra and Capital Region Tourism AwardThe National Library of Australia (NLA) has won an award for its Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia exhibition at the...
SLNSW launches ‘Rediscovering Indigenous Languages’ website
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has launched a new website offering access to the records of 100 Indigenous Australian languages, many of which are considered to be...
International library news
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
NY Court hears dispute over Google Digital Library ProjectA lawyer for the Authors Guild has urged a federal appeals court in New York to force Google to reward authors for...
Arts Tasmania 2015 individual artists grants announced
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The successful applicants for Arts Tasmania’s 2015 Individual Artists Program have been announced. Several writers were among the successful applicants to share in $445,083 worth of funding. The successful applicants...
HarperCollins acquires memoir by Rosie Batty
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
HarperCollins has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir by Rosie Batty. Rosie’s Story, written with Bryce Corbett, will be published in late 2015. ‘We see Rosie’s Story as...
Social Club Books to close
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Social Club Books has announced it will close at the end of January 2015. Established in 1983, the business runs a mail-order catalogue and a retail site at www.scb.com.au. Managing...
Harvey joins Dymocks Children’s Charities
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Australian author Jacqueline Harvey has been appointed an ambassador for Dymocks Children’s Charities.
Queensland Literary Awards 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The winners of the Queensland Literary Awards were announced on 8 December at the State Library of Queensland.The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Narrow Road to the...
PM’s Literary Awards 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The winners of 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 December at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.The winners in each category are:Fiction (joint winners) A World...
Hachette to trial book sales via Twitter
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
In the US, Hachette will sell a limited number of its titles directly through Twitter in partnership with ecommerce venture Gumroad, reports Publishers Weekly. From 11 December, three books will be...
Government to establish new Book Council of Australia, industry campaigns and data collection among its tasks
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced during the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards on 8 December that the government will establish a new Book Council of Australia.A joint press release from the...
Cooke resigns from New Holland
Monday, 8 December 2014
New Zealand publisher New Holland has announced that Belinda Cooke has resigned from the company after 16 years as managing director.The publisher said in a statement that Cooke is ‘planning...
PM’s and Queensland literary awards announced tonight
Monday, 8 December 2014
The winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards will be announced tonight in separate events in Melbourne and Brisbane. The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will...
‘The Lifted Brow’ launches experimental nonfiction prize
Monday, 8 December 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced a new nonfiction prize to coincide with its print magazine relaunch in March 2015. The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental...
Costello debut novel voted ‘book of the year’ in Irish awards
Monday, 8 December 2014
Academy Street, a debut novel by Mary Costello (Text), has been voted the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for 2014, reports the Bookseller. The book won the ‘novel...
Barnes & Noble buys back Microsoft’s share of Nook Media
Monday, 8 December 2014
Barnes & Noble (B&N) has bought back Microsoft’s share of Nook Media for US$125 million (A$150 million) with a combination of cash and stock, reports Publishers Weekly. Microsoft originally invested US$300...
ABIAs 2015 date and location announced
Monday, 8 December 2014
The 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held on 21 May 2015. The awards will be held at Doltone House in Pyrmont during the Sydney Writers’ Festival, which runs...
Joint winners announced for 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry
Monday, 8 December 2014
Tracy Ryan and Jill Jones are the joint winners of the 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry. Ryan and Jones were chosen from a shortlist of 10 and will...
Inaugural ‘Bookseller’ YA Book Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 5 December 2014
Ten books are in the running for UK book publication the Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. They are: Goose (Dawn O’Porter, Hot Key Books), Say Her Name (James Dawson, Hot...
Wattpad to add paid content
Friday, 5 December 2014
Online writing platform Wattpad has announced it is adding paid content to its website to make it ‘simpler for readers to financially support the writers they like’. ‘Where we introduce...
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