Claire Miller on ‘Between the Covers, Behind the Counter’
Thursday, 15 March 2018
On 27 February, a group of publishers, booksellers and other children’s literature enthusiasts gathered in Fremantle at children’s bookstore Paper Bird Books & Arts for ‘Between the Covers, Behind the...
Text sells UK and US rights to Korean thriller
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American and UK English-language rights to forthcoming Korean thriller The Plotters by Un-su Kim. Text acquired world English rights to the book, and subsequently sold...
ACT school boosts NAPLAN results through fostering a ‘love of reading’
Thursday, 15 March 2018
An Australian Capital Territory school has seen a significant improvement in the reading levels of its students according to the latest NAPLAN results, thanks to a whole-school effort to foster...
British Library reports 6.2% gender pay gap
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The British Library has revealed that women earn 6.2% less than men per hour at the organisation, reports the Bookseller. In January, the British Library reported that men are paid...
Hachette sales up in 2017
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Hachette Book Group parent company Lagardère Publishing has released its full-year financial report, with the publisher’s earnings before interest and taxes rising one percent to €210 million (A$329.74 million) in...
Noosa bookshop Written Dimension closes
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Queensland independent bookshop Written Dimension has closed, after 30 years of trading. The Noosa bookstore closed its doors on 21 February, with owner Keith Moore citing rental costs as the...
Auckland Writers Festival 2018 program released
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The program for the 2018 Auckland Writers Festival has been announced. This year’s festival, which runs from 15 to 20 May, will be headlined by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård...
‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ to be adapted for TV
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Penguin) is to be adapted for television. TV rights to Flanagan’s 2013 novel have been secured by...
BIC criticises ‘confusing’ use of metadata fields for book promotion
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
In the UK, supply chain organisation Book Industry Communication (BIC) has urged publishers to stop using ‘hugely confusing’ blurb material in title and subtitle metadata fields, reports the Bookseller. BIC...
Picador to publish new Zusak novel
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced it will publish a new novel by Australian author Markus Zusak in October—his first in 13 years. The new book, Bridge of Clay, comes 13...
Hardcopy announces digital-only access opportunity and First Nations scholarship
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
The ACT Writers Centre’s professional development program Hardcopy has announced two new access opportunities for this year’s event. A new sub-program called HC Digital will allow up to 10 emerging...
Leading Edge Books announces conference program
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Leading Edge Books has released the program for its 2018 conference, to be held from 25-27 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, Tasmania. Entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen...
Shakespeare & Co. to open three new stores this year
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Manhattan-based independent bookstore Shakespeare & Co. will be opening three new stores in the United States this year, reports Publishers Weekly. The first store will open this US summer in...
Man Booker International Prize 2018 longlist announced
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The 7th Function of Language (Laurent Binet, trans by Sam Taylor, Vintage) The Impostor...
Australian publishers shortlisted for LBF International Excellence Awards
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Australian publishers Quirky Kid and Typefi have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Quirky Kid is nominated for both the Educational Learning Resources Award and...
Australian author Peter Temple dies
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Acclaimed crime author Peter Temple has died, aged 71. Temple was the first Australian writer to win the Gold Dagger, a major award from the UK's Crime Writers’ Association, for...
Dyer to step down from SWF, joins AWW as director
Friday, 9 March 2018
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that CEO Jo Dyer will step down from the role in June 2018, following the upcoming festival which runs from 30 April to...
Hazel Rowley Fellowship Award 2018 winners announced
Friday, 9 March 2018
Writers Victoria has announced that author Jacqueline Kent has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of political campaigner and women's rights activist Vida Goldstein....
Translated kids’ fiction prize releases shortlist
Friday, 9 March 2018
In the UK, children’s reading charity BookTrust has released the shortlist for its children’s books in translation project, In Other Words. The promotion, which was launched in September 2016, is...
Hay Festival announces #VOTE100BOOKS campaign
Friday, 9 March 2018
In the UK, the Hay Festival has announced a campaign to select 100 books by women from the last 100 years to be celebrated at its festivals in the UK...
Schmidt longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Friday, 9 March 2018
Australian author Sarah Schmidt has been longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, See What I Have Done (Hachette). Schmidt’s book takes as its subject...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 9 March 2018
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, Canberra Day in ACT and Eight Hours Day in Tasmania),...
Stella Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Thursday, 8 March 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press) Terra Nullius (Claire G Coleman,...
ABIA 2018 longlists announced
Thursday, 8 March 2018
The longlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Force of Nature (Jane Harper,...
Eight authors win 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Eight authors from around the world have received 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes. The recipients in each category are: Fiction Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda/UK) John Keene (US) Nonfiction Olivia Laing (UK) Sarah...
Pantera acquires the Author People
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Pantera Press has acquired boutique publishing company the Author People from co-founder Lou Johnson. The purchase will see Pantera take on US rights to A Thousand Shards of Glass by...
PRH acquires journalist’s investigation into death of boxer Davey Browne
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Penguin Random House has acquired ANZ rights to a nonfiction title by journalist Stephanie Convery that investigates the 2015 death of boxer Davey Browne. Browne was knocked out in the...
NLA celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is holding an exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the library building’s construction and to further explore the year 1968 in history. The...
Project Nepal to build new library to stop human trafficking
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Project Nepal, run by Canberra law student Christina Lee, is seeking funding to build a library in the Nepalese village of Batase in an attempt to stop human trafficking. With...
TurnItIn to identify third-party authorship with machine learning
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
University anti-plagiarism software company TurnItIn will bring out a new product that uses machine learning to tackle the prevalence of students engaging a third party to complete their assessments, sometimes...
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