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Sales up 4% in 2016 for UK bricks-and-mortar bookstores

Tuesday, 14 March 2017
UK bricks-and-mortar booksellers saw a 4% increase in book sales volume in 2016 while online sales held steady, according to Nielsen’s Books and Consumer survey reported in the Bookseller. Ebook...

Braybrooke promoted to MD of Scribe UK

Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Scribe UK publicity and operations manager Sarah Braybrooke has been promoted to managing director of Scribe UK. Braybrooke’s promotion is one of four at Scribe’s UK office, with Molly Slight...

Hachette UK sales up 11% in 2016; US down 4.2%

Friday, 10 March 2017
Hachette UK revenue was up 11% in 2016, with the growth credited with driving parent company Lagardère’s publishing division revenue up 2.5% on the previous year, reports the Bookseller. Little,...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

Friday, 10 March 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in April and May 2017. The three highest-scoring books were Ashley Hay’s novel A Hundred Small Lessons (A&U, April), Karen...

No ‘Daily’ on Monday 

Friday, 10 March 2017
Please note that, due to the Labour Day holiday on Monday in Victoria and Tasmania, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 14 March.

‘ABR’ reopens gender fellowship with expanded guidelines

Friday, 10 March 2017
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has reopened its $7500 gender fellowship with broader criteria, following its decision not to award the inaugural fellowship. The revised fellowship calls for proposals for ‘a substantial...

Bonnier to launch self-publishing platform in the UK

Thursday, 9 March 2017
Swedish-owned Bonnier Books is launching a new print and digital self-publishing platform in the UK, reports the Bookseller. Type & Tell, which launches at the London Book Fair in March,...

Henderson to join S&S

Thursday, 9 March 2017
Affirm Press publisher Fiona Henderson has been appointed publishing director of Simon & Schuster, effective from 3 April. Henderson has worked in publishing for more than 20 years, including senior...

Inaugural ‘ABR’ gender fellowship unawarded

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Australian Book Review’s (ABR) inaugural gender fellowship has not been awarded, with the publication citing a lack of original proposals, reports ArtsHub. ABR announced the gender fellowship, worth $7500, earlier this...

Ipswich purchases land for new CBD library

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Ipswich City Council in regional Queensland has taken ownership of a 1.3 hectare parcel of land in the Ipswich CBD in preparation for a new $150m city library and entertainment...

All-white Carnegie Medal longlist prompts CILIP review 

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
The UK’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) will launch an independent review as a result of the controversy surrounding its 2017 Carnegie Medal longlist, reports the Bookseller. As previously...

The missing beat: Benjamin Ludwig on ‘Ginny Moon’

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
One of the first titles from Harlequin Australia’s new HQ imprint is US author Benjamin Ludwig’s debut novel Ginny Moon (May), ‘a unique and compelling narrative that gets deep inside...

Stella Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Stellla Prize shortlist Wednesday, 8 March 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe) The Hate Race (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)...

Harlequin to launch new imprint HQ

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Harlequin Australia has announced it will launch a new imprint called HQ in April. The publisher, a division of HarperCollins ANZ, said the imprint will ‘showcase quality fiction with a focus on...

Hachette UK acquires ebook publisher Bookouture

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
In the UK, Hachette has acquired independent ebook publisher Bookouture in order to share expertise between the two companies, reports the Bookseller. Bookouture was founded four years ago by former...

Tapper, Stewart join Giramondo

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Giramondo Publishing has appointed two new staff to its editorial team. Nick Tapper has been appointed commissioning editor. Tapper previously worked as editor at Mossenson Art Foundation, and at art-and-design...

Grenville wins OzCo Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Kate Grenville has won the 2017 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The award, formerly known as the Writers’ Emeritus Award, recognises ‘the achievements of eminent literary writers...

ILF’s Great Book Swap launches today

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s (ILF) Great Book Swap launches today with a special event with ILF ambassador Justine Clarke and the Indigenous students at Villawood East Public School in Sydney....

New Zealand Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Wish Child (Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press) Love as...