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Scribd adds magazines to subscription service

Wednesday, 2 November 2016
In the US, reading subscription service Scribd has expanded its content to include magazines, with subscribers to have full access to Time, New York, Fortune and The Atlantic magazines among others,...

‘Frankie’ magazine to publish collection of stories

Wednesday, 2 November 2016
frankie magazine will publish a book-length collection of stories from the publication’s 12-year history on 7 November. Something to Say is the magazine’s first ‘text-based book’, having previously released cookbooks,...

170 stores take part in second NZ Bookshop Day

Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Around 170 stores ‘from Whangarei to Invercargill’ participated in the second New Zealand Bookshop Day on 29 October, which ran under the theme ‘Your Place, Your Bookshop’. Among the highlights...

No ‘Daily’ tomorrow

Monday, 31 October 2016
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup Day holiday on Tuesday in Victoria, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Wednesday, 2 November.

Over 1000 attend first Australian Short Story Festival; 2017 event planned for Adelaide

Monday, 31 October 2016
Around 1100 people attended the first Australian Short Story Festival, which was held in Perth from 21-23 October. The festival, which was announced in February, was founded by Margaret River...

Germany’s Papego named ‘startup of the year’ at Frankfurt

Monday, 31 October 2016
Papego, a ‘mobile reading app designed to bridge the gap between mobile and print books’, has been named ‘startup of the year’ at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishing...

Arts NSW announces funding recipients for 2017

Friday, 28 October 2016
Several literary organisations are among the recipients in the latest funding round of the NSW government’s Arts and Cultural Development Program, administered by Arts NSW. The program will provide a...

‘More of Me’ the first YA book to win Edinburgh First Book Award

Friday, 28 October 2016
UK author Kathryn Evans has won the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for her YA novel More of Me (Usborne), reports the Bookseller. Evans’ book is the...

Inaugural ‘Hope Prize’ winners announced; S&S to publish collection

Friday, 28 October 2016
The winners of the inaugural Hope Prize for short stories, administered by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, has been announced. Catherine Moffat won the $5000 first prize for her story...

New Zealand Education Awards finalists announced

Friday, 28 October 2016
The finalists for the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Primary NZ Curriculum Mathematics: Connecting All Strands—Level 3B (Maryanne Tipler, Caxton...

First authors announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week

Friday, 28 October 2016
The first line-up of authors has been announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 4-9 March 2017. Among the international guests are UK true-crime writer Kate Summerscale; US essayist...

NZ publishing projects awarded CLNZ funds

Thursday, 27 October 2016
A number of New Zealand publishers and authors have received funding in the latest round of Copyright Licensing New Zealand’s (CLNZ) Contestable Fund. Established in 2014, the fund supports ‘strategic...

Oneworld orders 120k UK reprint of ‘The Sellout’; 40k for Australia

Thursday, 27 October 2016
In the UK, Oneworld has ordered a 120,000 reprint of Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout following its Man Booker Prize win, reports the Bookseller. A further 40,000 copies have been...

New literary podcast to launch in November

Thursday, 27 October 2016
A new literary podcast featuring Australian writers talking about the craft of writing will be launched in November. The Garret podcast is hosted by Nicolas Brasch, author and chair of...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 3 November. The deadline for classifieds and job...

Labor MP calls for retention of PIRs

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Federal Labor MP and opposition spokesperson for tourism Anthony Albanese has written an opinion piece for the Fairfax papers arguing against the repeal of parallel import restrictions (PIRs). In his...

YABBAs 2016 winners announced

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig the Fibber (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Fiction...

SLV and Vic public libraries launch statewide early literacy program

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) and Public Libraries Victoria Network (PLVN) have jointly launched ‘1000 Books Before School’, a statewide early literacy program designed to tackle adult illiteracy and...

OzCo literature funding drops to 2.7%

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Funding for literature has dropped to 2.7% of the Australia Council’s overall funding in 2015-16, according to the Australia Council’s recent annual report. In 2015-16, literature received $4.6m in funding...

US copyright register removed by Librarian of Congress

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
In the US, creators and media organisations are ‘surprised and dismayed’ at the sudden removal of US register of copyrights Maria Pallante—the first dismissal from the position in 119 years,...

New ALIA award for library design to be presented in 2017

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the inaugural Australian Library Design Awards will be presented in 2017, in partnership with the Australian Public Library Alliance and the...

NSW councils call on state government to fund its share of public libraries

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Blacktown mayor Stephen Bali has criticised the NSW government for gradually decreasing its commitment to public libraries, in a speech at the NSW Local Government conference on 17 and 18...

Small publisher spotlight: Threekookaburras

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2013, Threekookaburras has a ‘low-cost, profit-sharing model that slots between self-publishers and the bigger, independent presses’. Founder Annie Hall spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher...

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