New Victorian commissions program for ‘ambitious, ground-breaking projects’
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
The Victorian state government is calling for applications for ‘ambitious, ground-breaking projects’, which could receive up to $1m in funding, as part of a new Creative Victoria program seeking to...
Pape tops 2017 bestsellers chart
Monday, 8 January 2018
Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wiley) was the highest selling book in Australia in 2017, selling 438,000 copies, reports Fairfax. According to statistics provided by Nielsen BookScan, five of the...
PANZ to lead Bologna delegation
Monday, 8 January 2018
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) will have a New Zealand collective stand for the first time at Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2018. With the support of Creative...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced
Monday, 8 January 2018
The shortlists have been announced for this year’s Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government. The shortlisted works in each category are: Children’s Rockhopping (Trace...
Text acquires new YA debut
Monday, 8 January 2018
Text has acquired world rights to debut author Kay Kerr’s YA novel, Please Don’t Hug Me. Kerr’s novel is a ‘contemporary coming-of-age tale’ about ‘a neuro-diverse and socially awkward year...
Pre-Christmas survey 2017: Sales stable for local indie and chain booksellers
Friday, 15 December 2017
Christmas sales are tracking at similar levels to last year for the majority of booksellers (65%), with more stores (22%) reporting a decrease in sales than an increase (14%). The...
Nielsen BookScan figures: value and volume up as nonfiction recovers post colouring books
Friday, 15 December 2017
Sales in the 10 weeks leading up to 9 December 2017 are up four percent in value and 3.7% in volume over the same period in 2016, reports Nielsen BookScan....
The books: Strong offerings boost booksellers’ confidence
Friday, 15 December 2017
Most booksellers were pleased with the line-up of books this Christmas, with 71% considering the books on offer ‘strong’, and only three percent considering them ‘disappointing’. Another 29% considered the...
Supply, stock, staff and sales
Friday, 15 December 2017
Many booksellers reported improved delivery services so far this Christmas, although issues with supply availability, damages and unavailable titles remain a problem for some. ‘It’s been pretty good this year’,...
Publishers’ perspectives
Friday, 15 December 2017
Australia’s large and medium-sized publishers are expecting a steady 2017 Christmas trading period, with most reporting that sales are either up or ‘about the same’ compared to the same time...
Expectations in check
Friday, 15 December 2017
After a slow start to Christmas sales, booksellers are almost unanimously keeping their expectations in check, despite what’s hoped to be a bumper last week of sales. Almost four in...
Online sales and ebooks
Friday, 15 December 2017
Thirty-seven percent of bookstores surveyed aren’t selling print books online this Christmas, with 17% not having a store website at all. For those that are selling online, the majority are...
ANU Press titles reach two million downloads for the first time
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Australian National University’s (ANU) online publisher, ANU Press, has reached more than 2.3 million downloads of its titles in 2017. This is the first time the press has surpassed the...
Natasha Lester signs four-book UK deal
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Hachette Australia has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to four historical fiction novels by Natasha Lester to UK publisher Sphere. Rights were acquired by Sphere commissioning editor Viola...
Oz middle-grade novel ‘The Shark Caller’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Dianne Wolfer’s middle-grade novel The Shark Caller (Random House) has been optioned for film by New Zealand producers Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton at Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Wolfer’s...
New Australian fiction podcast ‘Six Cold Feet’ debuts
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Brisbane-based author J M Donellan has written a fiction anthology podcast called Six Cold Feet, which tells the story of River, who is looking for his recently disappeared sister in...
Echo acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s fiction backlist
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s Echo imprint has acquired world rights to bestselling novelist Blanche D’Alpuget’s backlist. Echo will publish the last two titles in D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series in...
Haywood wins UQ library’s Creative Writing Fellowship
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Poet and academic Ashley Haywood is the recipient of the University of Queensland library’s Creative Writing Fellowship. Haywood will draw on the Fryer Library’s Dorothy Hill collection for a book...
Griffiths wins 2017 ACT Book of the Year
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Tom Griffiths has won the 2017 ACT Book of the Year for his nonfiction book The Art of Time Travel (Black Inc.). Griffiths was chosen from a shortlist of five,...
Over half of book-industry survey respondents report sexual harassment
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Just over half (54%) of all respondents to Books+Publishing’s survey on sexual harassment in the Australian book industry have reported being sexually harassed. Books+Publishing received 213 responses to the survey....
Adaptations win at AACTA Awards 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
The 2017 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced, with many of the awards going to book-to-screen adaptations. The feature film adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s...
Dymocks stores undergo extensive upgrades in 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
Dymocks has announced it is making ‘significant upgrades’ to its network, with the bookseller refurbishing 15% of its stores in 2017. Upgrades have included introducing consistent signage across categories, additional...
Brio acquires O’Neill’s ‘The Drover’s Wife’ reinterpretations; acquires new debut novel by Vincent Silk
Friday, 8 December 2017
Xoum imprint Brio has acquired Ryan O’Neill’s The Drovers Wives, a collection of 99 remixes and reinterprations of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife. In the collection, O’Neill reimagines Lawson’s classic...
Dymocks poll finds over half of all adults planning to give a book this Christmas
Friday, 8 December 2017
A Dymocks-commissioned OmniPoll survey of more than 1200 adults has found more than half of all Australians say they’re likely to give someone a book this Christmas, including about 62%...
Pham awarded NSW Writer’s Fellowship
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Cabramatta-based writer Stephen Pham has been awarded the NSW Writer’s Fellowship, worth $30,000. The fellowship, presented by NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin, includes an optional residency at Varuna,...
Radio National revamps arts programming for 2018
Thursday, 7 December 2017
ABC Radio National has announced its program for 2018, with its daily Books and Arts program to be replaced by a new arts program, The Hub. The Hub will be...
Booksellers respond to Amazon’s Australian launch
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Australian booksellers have reacted cautiously to the launch of Amazon’s online store in Australia, with some noting that the online retailer ‘has given very little away’ despite extensive media coverage of...
Winners of Emerging Writers’ Mentorships 2018 announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Mentorship program. The winners are: Adult fiction: Amanda Niehaus for ‘The Breeding Season’ H T...
Indie Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2018 Indie Book Awards for books published in 2017. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Long Way from...
Judges for inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaitahu O Aotearoa and Text Publishing (Text) have announced the judges for the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel. New...
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