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Howard appointed DWF director

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Writer and critic Jane Howard has been appointed as Digital Writers’ Festival director. Howard has worked with numerous Adelaide-based arts organisations, been commissioned for work by the Lifted Brow and...

French book sales up in 2015 after five-year slump

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
French publishers have reported an increase in book sales in 2015—up 0.6% in value to €2.267bn (A$3.353bn) and 3.5% in volume to 436.7m—after five consecutive years of decline, reports the...

MWF international authors announced

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced the first of its international authors who will appear at the 2016 festival, which runs from 26 August to 4 September. The line-up...

Film rights to Australian YA debut sold to US producers

Krystal Sutherland Monday, 4 July 2016
US film production company Awesomeness Films has acquired film rights to Townsville author Krystal Sutherland’s forthcoming debut YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin). The book, which will be simultaneously published...

New Books+Publishing reviews out now

Friday, 1 July 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 19 reviews of books publishing in July to September 2016. Two books scored the maximum five stars from reviewers: Melina Marchetta’s first novel for adults...

PRH to launch ‘Penguin Living’ events

Friday, 1 July 2016
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is launching a series of lifestyle events under the brand Penguin Living, reports the Bookseller. The events will promote authors and experts specialising...

Lonely Planet opens new headquarters

Friday, 1 July 2016
Lonely Planet’s new headquarters in the inner-city suburb of Carlton, Melbourne opened this week. The offices are across levels two and three of The Malt Store building, the former Carlton...

On tour: Meg Rosoff 

authorMegRosoff_credit_JeanGoldsmith Thursday, 30 June 2016
YA author Meg Rosoff will be appearing at Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals in August and September to discuss her first novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed (Bloomsbury) What would you...

Publishers selected for SPN mentorship program

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Eight small publishers based in Victoria have been selected for the Small Press Network’s (SPN) mentorship program. The publishers are: Celapene Press, Empowering Resources, Monash University Publishing, Miscellaneous Press, Three...

‘Letters to Tiptree’ wins Locus Award

Letters to Tiptree Wednesday, 29 June 2016
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2016 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, US, on 25 June. Letters...

New POD braille printer opens at SA school library 

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
A new braille printer installed at the South Australian School for Vision Impaired in Adelaide will be used to print textbooks, fiction titles and other tactile books for vision-impaired students...

Small publisher spotlight: Transportation Press 

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Established in 2013, Tasmania-based Transportation Press publishes Tasmanian literature alongside work from around the world. Editor-in-chief Rachel Edwards spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company...

ProQuest acquires Alexander Street 

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
In the US, information-content and technology company ProQuest has acquired Alexander Street, a provider of streaming videos, music and other primary-source collections to libraries. In a statement ProQuest CEO Kurt...

Ex MUP and Black Inc. publicists form PR agency

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
A new PR agency has been launched by former Melbourne University Publishing publicists Terri King and Dina Kluska and former Black Inc. publicist Anna Lensky. Pitch Projects ‘specialises in publicity,...

UK children’s laureates to promote the arts in schools

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
In the UK, children’s laureate Chris Riddell has joined forces with eight former children’s laureates to promote the importance of the arts and creativity in schools, reports the Guardian. Riddell,...

‘The Pearl Frontier’ wins NT History Book Award

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers have won the 2016 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award for their book The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern...

 

 

 

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