PRH imprint Lantern to cut titles, Gibbs to leave the company
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced its Lantern imprint will reduce the number of books it publishes in 2016 and 2017, and that Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs will...
December grants round cancelled under new Australia Council program
Thursday, 23 July 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its December 2015 grants round and replaced its six-year funding programs with a four-year model, under its new grant program introduced following cuts to the...
Melbourne Writers Festival 2015 program launched
Thursday, 23 July 2015
British author Will Self will deliver the closing address at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 24 July. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, UK...
More authors announced for Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival has released a second line-up of authors to appear at its 2015 festival, which runs from 11-13 September in Hobart.Joining Don Watson and Bob...
Maramenides leaves The Five Mile Press
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
The Five Mile Press managing director Alexandra Maramenides has left the company, effective from 14 July.Maramenides was in the position since January 2010, having previously been children’s rights director at...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
‘The draft [National Program for Excellence in the Arts] guidelines—released earlier this month—do not seem to have been created with literature and publishing in mind. In fact, they don’t mention literature,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
SalesFiction—Sandy Wagner Creative Agents has sold ANZ and foreign and translation rights to The Ties That Bind (Lexi Landsman) to Penguin Random House Australia. S&S has sold UK rights to The...
Randolph Stow’s ‘Tourmaline’ to be adapted for film
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
A film adaptation of Randolph Stow’s 1963 novel Tourmaline has received funding in the latest round of Screen Australia grants.Stow’s post-apocalyptic novel, which will be re-issued as a ‘Text Classic’...
Educational Publishing Awards 2015 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
The titles shortlisted for the Australian Publishers Association Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Primary EducationStudent Resource: Mathematics (Numeracy) Nelson Maths Australian Curriculum NSW K-6+...
Hockey to meet with states on GST threshold in August
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has told a small business summit that the government will look at making foreign retailers pay GST on imported goods worth less than the current $1000...
Ubud Festival authors announced
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the first round of authors appearing in its 2015 program, which runs from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia.International...
Lawrence wins Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
Monday, 20 July 2015
Anthony Lawrence has been awarded this year’s Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writers’ Festival in Victoria.The award, which is named after the Australian poet and co-founder of the...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 July 2015
Colouring books continue to dominate the bestsellers charts for the week ending 11 July, although none of them enough to unseat Grey (E L James, Arrow), which spends its fourth...
Adelaide bookstore ‘raided’ over unwrapped ‘American Psycho’ copies
Monday, 20 July 2015
Police have ‘raided’ Imprints Booksellers in Adelaide for selling copies of the R18-classified American Psycho that were not plastic-wrapped, reports ABC News.Co-owner Jason Lake said a new Picador Classic edition...
‘Go Set a Watchman’ one of the fastest-selling titles for Australian booksellers
Monday, 20 July 2015
Australian booksellers have reported that early sales of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) have made it one of their fastest-selling titles ever.Dymocks reported that combined pre-order and sales on...
#LoveOzYA campaign gathers momentum
Monday, 20 July 2015
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum.Book blogger Danielle Binks told Books+Publishing that the #LoveOzYA campaign is inspired...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2015 winners announced
Friday, 17 July 2015
The winners of this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.Cardboard Cathedral (Andrew Barrie, Auckland University Press), designed by Janson Chau, won the overall...
HarperCollins acquires rights to book by NZ ‘social media sensation’
Friday, 17 July 2015
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jamie’s World: They Let Me Write a Book! by New Zealand ‘social media sensation’ Jamie Curry.The publisher has described Curry’s book as ‘a journey through her mind...
Black Inc. launches ‘online book club community’
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Black Inc. has launched an ‘online book club community’ to promote Black Inc. and Nero titles to members of book clubs.‘Read between the Wines’, which has its own website, quarterly...
Your Bookshop closes two stores
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Sydney independent bookselling chain Your Bookshop has closed two of its stores.The Blacktown store, which was located at the Westpoint Shopping Centre, and the Top Ryde store, at the Top Ryde...
Creative Clunes awarded grant to travel to Paju Book City, South Korea
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Creative Victoria has awarded a $12,000 grant to Creative Clunes for a delegation to travel from Clunes in Victoria to Paju Book City in South Korea to develop collaborative projects...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
SalesFiction—The Drummond Agency has sold German rights to The Trivia Man (Deborah O’Brien) in a pre-empt to Goldmann, via Annelie Geissler at Mohrbooks.Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2015 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
The winners of the 2015 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced at a ceremony at the State Library of New South Wales.The $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
‘Although there are some regular successes in terms of rights sales of Oz titles into various territories around the world, it’s haphazard, and there are some good titles I suspect...
Joint winners announced for 2015 Ernest Scott Prize
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation (UNSW Press) and Tom Brooking’s Richard Seddon, King of God’s Own: The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister...
Eggleton wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Literacy consultant, teacher and author Jill Eggleton has won the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand children’s literature and literacy’.As a teacher, Eggleton implemented literacy programs...
Shaw joins Alex Adsett Publishing Services, announces sub-agenting services
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Outgoing Readings books division manager Martin Shaw will join Alex Adsett Publishing Services this month.Shaw, who is moving to Germany, has joined the company as a literary agent specialising in...
Affirm signs 10-book deal with Oz press photographer
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Affirm Press has signed a 10-book deal with Australia press photographer Bruce Postle to publish a photography series reflecting on the past 50 years of Australian life.Affirm Press publishing director...
Festival of Dangerous Ideas program launched
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) has announced its 2015 program.Presented by the Sydney Opera House and the Ethics Centre, the festival invites ‘thinkers and culture creators’ from around...
Hachette Australia cancels ‘Millennium’ tattoo promotion
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Hachette Australia has cancelled a tattoo promotional campaign around the new ‘Millennium’ title, The Girl in the Spider’s Web (MacLehose Press), due to complaints that the stunt was offensive. Originally labelled as ‘tatvertising’,...
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