Parties outline arts, copyright commitments at election debate
Thursday, 9 June 2016
Federal Arts Minister Mitch Fifield was joined by shadow Arts Minister Mark Dreyfus and Australian Greens Party arts spokesperson Adam Bandt for an arts election debate at the Wheeler Centre...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2016 longlist announced
Thursday, 9 June 2016
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Inside the Black Horse (Ray Berard, Mary Egan Publishing) Made...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2016 finalists announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
The finalists for this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Young adult fiction Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo...
Australian publisher named finalist at British Fantasy Awards
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has been named a finalist in the British Fantasy Awards. Letters to Tiptree, which is edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa...
Mudgee Readers’ Festival 2016 program announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2016 festival, to be held from 13-14 August. Festival guests include Jane Caro, Sami Shah, Emily Maguire,...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Monday, 6 June 2016
The 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The three shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female writer are: A Few...
Labor pledges ‘careful consultation’ on copyright, return of OzCo money
Monday, 6 June 2016
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has pledged to ‘carefully consult on copyright’, close the Catalyst —Australian Arts and Culture Fund and return funding to the Australia Council as part of...
OUP to recruit NZ booksellers to act as distributors
Monday, 6 June 2016
Oxford University Press (OUP) will recruit a number of booksellers to act as distributors to other customers in a bid to increase the reach of its educational and academic titles....
‘Chasing Shadows’ wins UK Sports Book Award
Friday, 3 June 2016
Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant), a biography...
King to leave MUP to form PR agency
Friday, 3 June 2016
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) marketing and publicity manager Terri King is leaving the company after 10 years. King told Books+Publishing she will be joining forces with former MUP publicist Dina Kluska and...
ABA backs APA’s Books Create campaign to retain PIRs
Thursday, 2 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will join the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and other organisations to support the Books Create Australia campaign, which condemns the government’s plans...
Sleepers Publishing announces it’s not taking on new books
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Independent small press Sleepers Publishing has announced it will not take on new books after 13 years of operation. In a newsletter, Sleepers co-founders Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn thanked...
Xoum appoints Grundy as associate publisher, announces new literary imprint
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Sydney-based independent publisher Xoum Publishing has appointed Alice Grundy in the newly created role of associate publisher, where she will head its new literary imprint Brio. Grundy has more than...
Shortlist for 2016 Vic Prem’s unpublished manuscript award announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Ironbark’ by Jay Carmichael: ‘an exquisitely poetic, stylistically sure literary novel...
ABA conference attracts 300 attendees; ‘Funder, Deng and Barnesy’ among the highlights
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Approximately 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, which was held in Canberra from 29-30 May. ABA chief executive Joel Becker said he...
Nielsen BookScan: Value up, volume flat in 2016 YTD; ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ the bestseller
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Nielsen Book general manager Shaun Symonds presented an overview of the market in 2016 at the Leading Edge Books and Australian Booksellers Association conferences. Symonds reported that value is up...
Close to 200 booksellers, publishers and authors attend 2016 Leading Edge conference
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Ninety booksellers, 75 publishing representatives and 22 authors attended this year’s Leading Edge Books conference, which was held in Canberra from 27-28 May. Leading Edge Books group manager Galina Marinov...
Minimum wage to rise 2.4% following Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 2.4% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2016, bringing the minimum rate from $17.29 per hour to $17.70 per hour. The...
White elected president of ABA management committee
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) announced a number of changes to its management committee following its annual general meeting in Canberra on 29 May. Books for Cooks owner Tim White,...
black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship has been awarded to WA writer Claire Coleman and SA writer Dylan Coleman. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development from the...
Wilderness Society announces 2016 children’s book award shortlists
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Fiction Thirst (Lizzie Wilcock, Scholastic) The River and...
HarperCollins, Avenue Bookstore and BooksPlus awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference
Monday, 30 May 2016
A number of awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Canberra on 28 May. HarperCollins was named Publisher of the Year from a shortlist that included...
‘Reckoning’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced
Monday, 30 May 2016
Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning (Text) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2016 ABA conference awards night, held at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 shortlist announced
Sunday, 29 May 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe) Leap (Myfanwy Jones, A&U) Black Rock White City (A S...
Affirm Press signs exclusive international agency deal with Kaplan/DeFiore
Friday, 27 May 2016
Affirm Press has announced a deal with Linda Kaplan of New York-based translation licensing agency Kaplan/DeFiore Rights to exclusively sell rights to Affirm Press titles internationally. Affirm publishing director Martin...
Collins to open first company-owned store in Launceston, exploring other sites
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Collins Booksellers has opened its first company-owned store at the site of the former Fullers Bookshop in Launceston. Fullers Launceston owner Clive Tilsley and his family ran a bookshop at...
A&U acquires debut novel from musician Holly Throsby
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired the debut novel from Sydney songwriter and musician Holly Throsby. Goodwood, which will be published on 28 September, is pitched as a ‘compelling ride into...
‘Myriad possibilities’ explored at 2016 CBCA conference
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The 2016 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) National Conference was held in Sydney from 20-21 May under the theme ‘Myriad possibilities’, with stimulating sessions on picture-book partnerships, the role...
Asian, European markets discussed at VIP industry forum
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 18 May several...
Fifield clarifies govt stance on life of copyright; PIR petition signatories ‘surge’
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Communications and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield has released a statement clarifying that the federal government does not intend to reduce the life of copyright to 15 to 25 years after...
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