Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Friday, 27 January 2017
Several literary projects have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.8m in funding for 87 creative projects...
Roxane Gay pulls S&S US book due to Yiannopoulos deal
Friday, 27 January 2017
Author Roxane Gay has pulled her book How to Be Heard from Simon & Schuster (S&S) in response to the far-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal with the US publisher’s conservative imprint Threshold Editions,...
SLNSW releases Sydney Harbour Bridge oral history using new online tool
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) is marking the 85th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge by releasing its full collection of unedited interviews with the people who built it,...
Ransomware attack shuts down St Louis library computer systems
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
In the US, a ransomware attack has shut down borrowing services at libraries in St Louis, Missouri, with 700 computers across 16 libraries infected, reports the Guardian. Hackers are demanding...
Swedish author sued by PRH, S&S for repurposing classic works
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Swedish author Fredrik Colting and his partner are facing a legal complaint from publishers Penguin Random House (PRH) and Simon & Schuster (S&S), as well as the estates of Arthur...
Amazon launches £20,000 literary prize
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
In the UK, Amazon will launch a £20,000 (A$33,040) literary prize for self-published books, reports the Telegraph. The Kindle Storyteller Prize will be open to any English-language book published through...
NZSA / Hachette Mentor program recipients announced
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
The New Zealand Society of Authors and Hachette Australia have announced the recipients of the 2017 NZSA/Hachette Mentor Program. NZ writers Heidi North-Bailey and Linda Bennett will work on a...
SLV, Readings to host Melbourne book club
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Independent bookselling chain Readings and the State Library of Victoria (SLV) will host a book club series, focusing on 10 recent books by Melbourne authors. Each event, which will be...
Post-Christmas survey: sales steady for chain bookstores, mixed for indies
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Christmas sales were ‘about the same’ for 97% of chain bookstores and mixed for indie bookstores (up for 50%, down for 31%), according to the results of Books+Publishing’s annual post-Christmas...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: strong last four weeks but value and volume down
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
While colouring books boosted Christmas sales in 2015, this season was marked by their absence. According to Nielsen BookScan, in the 12 weeks to 24 December, volume was down 2.7%...
Publishers’ perspectives
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Publishers finished the Christmas period strongly, with almost all of the larger publishers reporting that Christmas sales were ‘about the same’ or up on last year following a surge in...
Supply: booksellers frustrated by distribution, stock levels
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
The delivery and availability of major bestselling titles from publishers were a key concern for the surveyed booksellers, with almost every respondent commenting on distribution and supply issues. Titles running...
Big UK publishers ebook sales continue decline
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
In the UK, ebook sales for the five biggest publishers have declined for the second year in a row, reports the Bookseller. According to data supplied to the Bookseller, the...
ALA Youth Media Awards 2017: Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Stonewall
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA), has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, and the Printz and Stonewall awards. Kelly...
Sydney Story Factory to open Parramatta branch
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
The Sydney Story Factory, which runs free creative writing and storytelling workshops for students, will open its second centre in Parramatta in early 2018. More than a quarter of its...
Williams wins HGE Ampersand Prize with middle-grade fantasy manuscript
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Sydney writer Rhiannon Williams has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her middle-grade novel ‘Little Ott Colter’. It’s the first time a middle-grade manuscript has...
The books: Kent, Pape lead strong local lists
Monday, 23 January 2017
Two local titles, The Good People by Hannah Kent (Picador) and The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape (Wrightbooks), were the most mentioned fiction and nonfiction titles this Christmas, with booksellers listing a...
Amazon, Apple end exclusive audiobooks deal
Monday, 23 January 2017
Apple and Amazon have ended an exclusive audiobooks deal following ‘pressure from anti-trust regulators in Germany and the European Commission’, reports the BBC. Under Apple and Amazon’s deal, Amazon-owned audiobooks...
Flynn wins inaugural XO Romance Prize
Monday, 23 January 2017
Xoum Publishing has announced Jean Flynn as the winner of the inaugural XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript, for her work Lovesick. Guest judge Alexandra Nahlous called Lovesick ‘a...
On tour: Sebastian Barry
Friday, 20 January 2017
Irish author Sebastian Barry is a novelist, playwright and poet. His latest novel Days Without End (Faber), which won the Costa Novel of the Year, is the story of two American...
Larbalestier, McKinty shortlisted for 2017 Edgars
Friday, 20 January 2017
Australian author Justine Larbalestier and Melbourne-based Irish author Adrian McKinty have been shortlisted for the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars), which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction and...
New Nielsen Bestseller Hall of Fame recognises ‘platinum’ sales
Friday, 20 January 2017
In the UK, Nielsen Book has published its inaugural Bestseller Hall of Fame, recognising titles that have sold more than one million copies between 1998 and the end of 2015,...
Publisher Janet Rowe dies
Friday, 20 January 2017
Former Lake Press, Ice Water Press and Five Mile Press publisher Janet Rowe has died. Hardie Grant key account manager Jane Curtain writes: ‘Much loved friend and colleague within the...
Books editor Blanche Clark leaves ‘Herald Sun’
Friday, 20 January 2017
Blanche Clark, books editor of the Victorian newspaper the Herald Sun, has left the publication. A spokesperson for the Herald Sun said that sub-editor Barry Reynolds will manage the book...
Tiny Owl Workshop partners with online multimedia game
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Brisbane micro-publisher Tiny Owl Workshop is partnering with Wattpad and new online interactive storytelling game The Westbury Faery to host a short story competition, with winners to be published in...
Australian YA debut acquired by PRH
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Australian-born, US-based author Emily Suvada’s debut YA novel This Mortal Coil in a two-book deal. The novel centres around...
Zusak, Fox top 2015-16 lending rights surveys
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Books by Markus Zusak and Mem Fox have topped the lists of the highest scoring books in the most recent report on the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending...
Pearson to sell its stake in Penguin Random House
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Pearson has announced it intends to sell its 47% stake in Penguin Random House (PRH), reports the Bookseller. Pearson will issue an exit notice to joint venture partner Bertelsmann, which...
Birchalls bookshop to close
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Australia’s oldest bookshop, Birchalls in Launceston, is set to close this year after being put on the market in March 2016. The ABC reports that the premises were sold in...
McPherson’s ‘Grace Beside Me’ adapted for TV
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Sue McPherson’s YA novel Grace Beside Me (Magabala) has been commissioned by NITV, the National Indigenous Television channel, for a live-action children’s series. The planned 13-episode series marks the first-ever...
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