Pearson UK reports 21% mean gender pay gap
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
In the UK, Pearson has reported an overall median gender pay gap of 15% in 2017, and a mean gap of 21%, reports the Bookseller. Pearson’s median gender pay gap of 15%...
New bookstore Collaroy Books to open in northern Sydney
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
A new bookstore, Collaroy Books, is set to open in the northern Sydney suburb of Collaroy at the start of May. The new store will be located at Collaroy Beach...
Perimeter Editions wins Cornish Family Book Prize
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Melbourne publisher Perimeter Editions has won the Cornish Family Book Prize for Art and Design Publishing for To Note: Notation Across Disciplines (edited by Hannah Mathews, designed by Ziga Testen...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Common People (Tony Birch, UQP)...
HGE sells US rights to Henseleit debut
Monday, 19 March 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to debut author Jack Henseleit’s middle grade fiction books The Witching Hours: The Vampire Knife and its sequel, The Troll Heart, to Little, Brown...
Longlist announced for 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Monday, 19 March 2018
The longlist for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature has been announced. Considered 'the leading literary award for Caribbean writers', the prize recognises books by Caribbean authors published...
Shortlist announced for inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize
Monday, 19 March 2018
The shortlist for the inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted entrants are: Michael Garbutt Luke Van Aurich Saskia Pandji Sakti Jacob Raupach Kathryn McCool Ross Taylor...
Black Inc. to end ‘Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems’; announces new collection
Monday, 19 March 2018
Black Inc. has announced it will no longer publish its series of Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems, but will publish a new annual short story collection instead. Beginning in...
SWF 2018 program announced
Friday, 16 March 2018
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 30 April to 6 May. Sixty international guests and 400 Australian writers, academics and public...
Shortlists announced for 2018 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Friday, 16 March 2018
In the UK, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. The eight shortlisted titles for the...
Australian book industry orgs release joint statement on ‘safe workplaces’
Friday, 16 March 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have released a joint statement promoting...
Eddo-Lodge wins 2018 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour
Friday, 16 March 2018
In the UK, Reni Eddo-Lodge has won the 2018 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour for her novel Why I'm No Longer Talking to...
‘The Garret’ podcast announces live series at SLV
Friday, 16 March 2018
The Garret podcast has announced it will deliver a series of live podcasts at the State Library of Victoria (SLV), as part of an expanded partnership with the library. Called...
ANU library staff rescue books from flood damage
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Australian National University (ANU) librarian Roxanne Missingham has led a team of library staff to save books damaged by a flash flood at the university’s Chifley Library. After floodwaters filled...
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...
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