Writers, literary orgs among OzCo October grant round recipients
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
A number of writers and literary organisations have received funding in the Australia Council’s October 2016 grant round. Sixteen writers received arts projects grants of up to $50,000 each. There...
Rowling tops 2016 bestsellers chart, volume down and value up
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the playscript by J K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany (Hachette), was the highest selling book in Australia in 2016 with 426,000 copies...
MWF and Jaipur Literature Festival launch program for JLF Melbourne
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced it will partner with Jaipur Literature Festival to present JLF Melbourne, a two-day ‘pop-up’ festival running from 11-12 February that will celebrate ‘the best...
US print book sales record third year of growth in 2016
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
In the US, sales of print books were up 3.3% in 2016, marking a third straight year of growth, reports Publishers Weekly. According to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks 80% of...
Scribe acquires book on Belle Gibson cancer hoax
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights to The Woman Who Fooled the World, a book on the Belle Gibson cancer hoax by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the Fairfax journalists who...
Wyndham to leave ‘SMH’
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Sydney Morning Herald literary editor Susan Wyndham is leaving the publication at the end of January. Wyndham told the publishing industry that she was ‘ready for a change’ after ‘thirty-six...
S&S US book deal with right-wing journalist ignites debate
Monday, 9 January 2017
Simon & Schuster US’s decision to publish an autobiographical book by Milo Yiannopoulos, a British journalist and tech editor for the far-right website Breitbart, has attracted criticism within the publishing...
Former HarperCollins, Leading Edge Books communications specialist Simon Milne dies
Monday, 9 January 2017
Simon Milne, who worked in the Australian book industry for many years as a marketing communications director at HarperCollins ANZ, marketing and communications manager at Leading Edge Group and general...
New award to recognise editorial excellence
Monday, 9 January 2017
A new award for editorial excellence has been launched by Editors Queensland, a branch of the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd). The Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, or ‘Rosie’, honours the...
Costa Book Awards 2016 category winners announced
Monday, 9 January 2017
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2016 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The winners are Days Without End (Sebastian Barry, Faber) for best novel; Golden Hill...
Productivity Commission releases final report; reiterates call for PIR repeal, adoption of ‘fair use’
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
The Productivity Commission released its final report into Intellectual Property Arrangements on 20 December, reiterating the previous recommendations from its draft report to repeal parallel import restrictions (PIRs) on books...
Top ‘Books+Publishing’ stories, reviews of 2016
Friday, 16 December 2016
In October, Books+Publishing reported on the imminent arrival of a new bar and bookshop in Melbourne specialising in Irish whiskey and Irish literature. Our story on Buck Mulligan’s—which has since...
Pre-Christmas survey 2016: Stable sales at chain stores, indies divided
Friday, 16 December 2016
Christmas sales are tracking at similar levels to last year for the majority of booksellers (63%), with just 13% reporting an increase and 24% reporting a decrease. This compares to...
Nielsen BookScan figures: Volume and value down as colouring books dry up
Friday, 16 December 2016
Sales in the 10 weeks to 5 December are down 5.9% in value and seven percent in volume this year compared to the same period in 2015, reports Nielsen BookScan....
The books: Strong across the board; big-name fiction, cookbooks missing
Friday, 16 December 2016
Most booksellers think there’s a strong (53%) or moderate (44%) offering of books this season, with only three percent considering it a weak line-up of titles. Booksellers are more confident...
Supply, stock, staff and sales
Friday, 16 December 2016
Many booksellers have expressed cautious satisfaction with the availability and supply of stock so far this Christmas, although concerns regarding delivery services, damages and unavailable titles persist. ‘Supply has generally been...
Online sales and ebooks
Friday, 16 December 2016
Twenty-nine percent of bookstores surveyed aren’t selling print books online this Christmas, with 10% not having a store website at all. For those that have embraced ecommerce, print book sales...
Publishers’ perspectives
Friday, 16 December 2016
Australia’s large and medium-sized publishers are reasonably happy with sales in the lead-up to Christmas, with most reporting that sales are either ‘about the same’ as last year or down...
All down to the last week
Friday, 16 December 2016
Booksellers are hoping for a big final week of sales, but are preparing themselves for Christmas sales that are somewhere between ‘okay’ and ‘excellent’. Just under half of booksellers (47%)...
Bongiorno wins 2016 ACT Book of the Year
Friday, 16 December 2016
Frank Bongiorno has won the 2016 ACT Book of the Year for his nonfiction book The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (Black Inc.). Bongiorno was chosen from a shortlist...
UQP acquires Lucashenko novel ‘Too Much Lip’
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
UQP acting-CEO and publisher Madonna Duffy has acquired world rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s new novel Too Much Lip. Partly inspired by Ned Kelly and the Beverley Hillbillies, Too Much Lip...
Qld introduces coding and robotics grants program for Indigenous students
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
The Queensland State Government has introduced a new series of grants for public libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres to provide coding and robotics programs to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
A&U acquires Lambie memoir
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Allen & Unwin will publish a memoir by independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie in mid-2017, reports the Australian. The publisher said Lambie’s story is of ‘a very ordinary Australian who...
Contributor funds help Trove upload new documents after NLA budget cuts
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
The Department of Communications and the Arts has told a senate estimates committee that groups have been funding the National Library of Australia’s digital archive Trove to continue to upload...
Small publisher spotlight: Melbournestyle Books
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Melbournestyle is a publisher and design studio that specialises in illustrated works for adults and children inspired by ‘original, meaningful Melburniana’. Launched in 1994, the studio branched out with a...
Child, Hawkins top UK libraries’ most loaned; titles borrowed drops 14.6%
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
In the UK, Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) has topped the list of the most borrowed library book this year-to-date according to Nielsen LibScan statistics, reports the Bookseller. In a...
Final ‘Weekly Book Newsletter’ for 2016
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Today’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2016. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2017 will be published on Wednesday 11 January. The last Daily Newsletter for 2016 was published on...
Bachoura wins 2016 Deborah Cass Prize
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Syrian-born actor and writer Jean Bachoura has won Writers Victoria’s 2016 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for his manuscript extract ‘Night Falls’. ‘Night Falls’ was chosen...
HarperCollins acquires McTiernan, Ringland debuts
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to two novels by first-time Australian authors. Perth-based writer Dervla McTiernan’s crime novel The Rúin was acquired by publisher Anna Valdinger in a two-book deal...
Diversity initiative ‘Voices from the Intersection’ to hold publisher speed pitching day
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Authors Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina have launched a volunteer initiative Voices from the Intersection (VFTI), with the aim of providing publication and mentorship opportunities to emerging YA and children’s...
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