New name for Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island festival
Friday, 26 September 2014
Tasmania’s biennial arts festival Ten Days on the Island has been renamed the Tasmanian International Arts Festival.Artistic director David Malacari told the ABC that the new name better describes the...
Patterson gives grants to 73 UK indie bookstores
Friday, 26 September 2014
More than £130,000 (A$241,280) has been allocated to 73 independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland in the first round of UK grants funded by author James Patterson, reports the...
France to be Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017
Friday, 26 September 2014
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has accepted the invitation for France to be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) in 2017, the France Ministry of Foreign Affairs has...
‘Captain Underpants’ series most frequently challenged title in 2013
Thursday, 25 September 2014
The American Library Association (ALA) has released the list of most frequently challenged books in 2013 as part of Banned Books Week, which runs from 21-27 September. Three hundred and...
Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited in the UK
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Two months after Amazon launched its ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited in the US, the service has arrived in the UK. According to the Bookseller, none of the UK’s major...
FT Business Book of the Year Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 25 September 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. The award, worth £30,000 (A$55,000), is presented annually to the...
Penguin Random House partners with Universal Pictures for book-to-film adaptations
Thursday, 25 September 2014
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has partnered with Universal Pictures with the aim of adapting more books to film, reports Publishers Weekly. Random House Studios head Peter Gethers will...
Amazon planning crowd-sourced publishing program
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Amazon is planning to launch a crowd-sourced publishing program, reports the Bookseller. The retailer has told authors who self-publish using Kindle Direct Publishing that they will be invited to submit...
CHASS Australia Book Prize 2014 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2014 Australia Book Prize shortlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...
Black Inc. announces contributors to 2014 ‘Best’ anthologies
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Black Inc. has announced the contributors to its 2014 Best Australian Stories, Essays and Poems collections. J M Coetzee, Helen Garner, Clive James, David Malouf, Carrie Tiffany, Noel Pearson, Tim...
Penguin Random House Canada distribution to merge
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Distribution for Penguin Canada books will move from Pearson Canada’s warehouse in Newmarket, Ontario, to Random House’s Canada warehouses, reports Publishers Weekly. The move is expected to take place in...
ALIA releases report into education and employment trends
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) released its first public report into education and employment trends in the library sector at its national conference on 18 September. The ALIA...
International library news
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
EU rules on the right of libraries to digitise books for ‘reading points’The European Union’s Court of Justice has ruled that ‘Member States may authorise libraries to digitise, even without...
Susan Hawthorne’s ‘Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing’
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
In 2002 I attended the launch of Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity and later used it as an economics text. In that book Hawthorne put the case...
Behind the scenes with Scholastic publisher and Snappyant co-director Ana Vivas
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablets. ‘In 2010, I downloaded an app on my iPhone called Peekaboo...
Tulba wins $20,000 2014 Kathleen Mitchell Award
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Majok Tulba has been announced as the winner of this year’s Kathleen Mitchell Award for young novelists.Tulba won the $20,000 award for his debut novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish...
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
‘I welcome a review of Australia’s competition policies but hope that international postage and GST on imports are given as much weight, if not more, than the removal of import...
Helen Razer & Bernard Keane’s ‘A Short History of Stupid’
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
A Short History of Stupid is concerned with the rise of Stupidity in a world ruled by ‘fade-resistant individualism’, extreme paternalism, political condescension, conspicuous compassion and ‘the injurious yoga class...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Premier Colin Barnett on 23 September.Richard Flanagan was awarded the $25,000 Premier’s Prize for Narrow Road to...
‘Going Down Swinging’ launches Pozible campaign to avoid closing
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Literary journal Going Down Swinging has launched a Pozible campaign to raise funds to ‘stay alive’.‘We’ve always got by without much cash, but a stack of our 2012 issue were damaged in...
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...
Canadian ebook sales plateau
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
In Canada, digital publisher BookNet has ‘paused’ its consumer survey on ereading because of a plateau in ebook sales, reports Publishers Weekly. ‘The numbers we’re hearing for ebook unit sales is...
Fremantle appoints first patron
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Tonya McCusker as the inaugural Fremantle Press patron. Fremantle Press chairperson Ian Lilburne said McCusker’s role would focus on raising the Press’s profile in...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 September 2014
The film tie-in edition of Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Hachette), released ahead of the film adaptation on 2 October, has entered the bestsellers chart in fourth spot, and is this week’s highest new entry....
Amazon announces ‘Family Library’ Kindle feature
Monday, 22 September 2014
Amazon has announced it will allow users to link their accounts with family members to share content on the company’s Kindle ereaders. The announcement comes after Apple announced a similar...
Penguin US launches Cartoon Network imprint
Monday, 22 September 2014
In the US, Penguin Books for Young Readers will launch a Cartoon Network Books imprint in mid-2015, with books tied to shows owned by television company Cartoon Network, reports Publishers Weekly....
WA Premier’s Book Awards announced tonight
Monday, 22 September 2014
The winners of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will be announced tonight in Perth. Michelle de Kretser won last year’s Premier’s Prize. The name of the awards has since...
HarperCollins acquires 24-year-old author’s debut in three-book deal
Monday, 22 September 2014
HarperCollins has acquired a debut novel by Eliza Henry-Jones as part of a three-book deal.In the Quiet, acquired via the Calidris Literary Agency, is ‘a heart-breaking, tender and life-affirming novel...
‘Tiddas’ optioned for television
Friday, 19 September 2014
Anita Heiss’ most recent novel Tiddas (Simon & Schuster) has been optioned for television. Pursekey Productions has optioned the book ‘with a view to making it into a six-parter’, according...
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