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Israeli government repeals fixed price book law

Monday, 6 June 2016
The Israeli government has repealed legislation in force since 2014 that prohibits discounts on new books in the first 18 months of publication, reports Israel National News. The law, which...

Kulkarni wins 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Monday, 6 June 2016
Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian writer to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘Cow and Company’. The £5000 (A$9586) prize is presented annually to the...

YA Book Prize 2016 winner annouced

Friday, 3 June 2016
The Bookseller’s 2016 YA Book Prize has been awarded to free-verse novel One by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury). Crossnan’s winning novel is about ‘conjoined twins Grace and Tippi, who, after years of...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 3 June 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2016. Author Chris Owen and illustrator Chris Nixon’s picture book Pandamonia (Fremantle Press, August) received five...

‘Chasing Shadows’ wins UK Sports Book Award

Friday, 3 June 2016
Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant), a biography...

King to leave MUP to form PR agency 

Friday, 3 June 2016
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) marketing and publicity manager Terri King is leaving the company after 10 years. King told Books+Publishing she will be joining forces with former MUP publicist Dina Kluska and...

On tour: Tamora Pierce 

Thursday, 2 June 2016
US author Tamora Pierce has written a number of YA series, including ‘The Song of the Lioness’ and the ‘Circle of Magic’. She will be travelling to Australia for the...

ABA backs APA’s Books Create campaign to retain PIRs

Thursday, 2 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will join the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and other organisations to support the Books Create Australia campaign, which condemns the government’s plans...

Small publisher spotlight: Aulexic 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
WA-based publisher Aulexic specialises in books for children with language and literacy difficulties, launching its first titles in 2015. CEO and publisher Rebecca Laffar-Smith spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small...

Bangkok to open 24-hour library

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
A 24-hour library will open in Bangkok, Thailand by the end of the year, reports the Thai government’s Happy Reading website. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration had last year announced a budget of THB$200m...

Global institutional library spending forecast to rise 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Publishers Communication Group’s (PCG) annual survey of institutional library materials spending has found spending in North America is expected to rise 1% in 2016 while declining 0.1% in Europe,...

Perth library wins silver at Green Library awards 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Success Public Library in the City of Cockburn in Perth’s southern suburbs will be presented with a silver medal at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ Green Library...

Czerwiec awarded F A Sharr prize 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
University of Western Australia (UWA) librarian Chloe Czerwiec is the recipient of this year’s F A Sharr Award, presented to a WA librarian or library technician in their first three...

Byrne to retire as NSW State Librarian, CEO 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Alex Byrne will retire as NSW State Library CEO and state librarian in September after five years in the position, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Byrne was appointed in 2011...

White elected president of ABA management committee 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) announced a number of changes to its management committee following its annual general meeting in Canberra on 29 May. Books for Cooks owner Tim White,...

Ostrovsky’s ‘Invention of Russia’ wins Orwell Prize

Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the 2016 Orwell Prize for his book The Invention of Russia (Atlantic Books), an account of Russia’s post-Soviet transformation from 1985 to the...

 

 

 

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