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‘New York Times’ to reduce bestseller lists  Archive

Tuesday, 31 January 2017
The New York Times (NYT) is dropping its print and online bestseller lists for graphic novels and manga, mass-market paperbacks, teen e-books and middle-grade e-books effective from 5 February, reports...

Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients  Archive

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...

Amazon launches £20,000 literary prize  Archive

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...

SLV, Readings to host Melbourne book club  Archive

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...

Publishers’ perspectives  Archive

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...

The books: Kent, Pape lead strong local lists  Archive

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  Archive

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  Archive

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Xoum Publishing has announced Jean Flynn as the winner of the inaugural XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript, for her work Lovesick.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  Archive

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...

Publisher Janet Rowe dies  Archive

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...