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Finemore joins Text

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
HarperCollins publicity manager Jane Finemore has been appointed publicity manager at Text Publishing. Finemore replaces current publicity manger Jane Novak, who is relocating to Sydney. Novak has worked at Text...

Hardie Grant appoints Senogles in new US marketing role

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Hardie Grant Publishing has appointed Renee Senogles in the newly created role of US marketing and publicity manager for Hardie Grant and Quadrille. Hardie Grant marketing director Roxy Ryan told...

Small publisher spotlight: Monash University Publishing

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Melbourne-based Monash University Publishing released its first titles in 2010. Director Nathan Hollier spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company in under 50 words. Monash...

KL airport launches ebook library

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
In Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur International Airport has launched a new ebook library using ‘world first’ technology, reports the Star. The library—a partnership between the airport, the government and ebookstore eSentral—operates...

Budget: slightly less money to OzCo, NLA to lose staff

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Previously announced efficiency dividends and funding cuts have left the Australia Council with a $1.5m reduction in grant and project funding next year, the 2016-17 Federal Budget reveals. While the...

New Melbourne City of Literature website, bookshop fund

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
The Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature has launched a new website and a grant program for bookstores. The website includes an events calendar, which organisations can upload their events to;...

18,000 attend Clunes Booktown Festival; Bligh, Grant among the bestsellers

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Around 18,000 visitors attended the 10th annual Clunes Booktown Festival in Victoria, which ran 30 April to 1 May. The number of visitors was approximately the same as last year,...

Canadian ebook bundling service Shelfie enters US market

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Canadian ebook bundling service Shelfie has partnered with Harvard Book Store in the US to offer digital editions of four print books, reports Publishers Weekly. The partnership—Shelfie’s first with a...

Kalin shortlisted for Shirley Jackson Award

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Australian spec-fiction author Deborah Kalin has been shortlisted in the Shirley Jackson Awards for ‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic’. Kalin is in...

National Archives announces 2016 Digital Excellence Awards

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Digital Excellence Awards. The awards were presented to Australian National University (ANU) in the large agency category...

Text Prize 2016 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Sarah Bainbridge for ‘Eternal’, ‘an atmospheric and...

Amazon posts most-profitable quarter; revenue up 28%

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Amazon has posted its most profitable quarter ever with first-quarter results of of US$513m (A$669m) on revenue of US$29.1b (A$38b), up from US$57m (A$74m) on US$19.91b (A$26b) in the corresponding...

Affirm acquires Dennis Lillee autobiography

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Affirm Press will publish an illustrated autobiography by former Test cricketer Dennis Lillee in November as part of its ‘Icon’ series of sports autobiographies. The book will include previously unseen...

Van Neerven wins ‘Overland’/Melbourne Uni Indigenous writers’ prize

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Ellen van Neerven has won this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, administered by Overland and Trinity College at the University of Melbourne. Van Neerven was selected for the prize...

‘Overland’ launches new residency for marginalised writers

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Overland has announced a new residency program ‘aimed at addressing a lack of opportunities for marginalised writers’, with the inaugural program to focus on women writers who are the sole...

Literary organisations receive $140k in Catalyst funding

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Five literary sector organisations have received a total of $140,200 from the Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund as part of its first annual $12m funding round, announced on 2 May....

ABIA 2016 shortlists announced

Monday, 2 May 2016
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. They are: General fiction book of the year The Lake House (Kate Morton, A&U) Close Your Eyes (Michael Robotham,...

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2016 winners announced

Monday, 2 May 2016
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...

Industry responds to PC draft report on PIRs, fair use reforms

Monday, 2 May 2016
Industry groups including the Australian Publishers Association (APA), Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Copyright Agency have condemned the Productivity Commission’s draft report on intellectual property arrangements, which recommends...