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...
Game on: Anita Heiss on ‘Kicking Goals with Goodsey and Magic’
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Anita Heiss’ children’s nonfiction book Kicking Goals with Goodsey and Magic (Piccolo Nero, July) is a collaboration with former football players Adam Goodes and Michael O’Loughlin. Reviewer Louise Pfanner says...
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...
Sleepers Publishing announces it’s not taking on new books
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Independent small press Sleepers Publishing has announced it will not take on new books after 13 years of operation. In a newsletter, Sleepers co-founders Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn thanked...
Xoum appoints Grundy as associate publisher, announces new literary imprint
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Sydney-based independent publisher Xoum Publishing has appointed Alice Grundy in the newly created role of associate publisher, where she will head its new literary imprint Brio. Grundy has more than...
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...
Shortlist for 2016 Vic Prem’s unpublished manuscript award announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Ironbark’ by Jay Carmichael: ‘an exquisitely poetic, stylistically sure literary novel...
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...
ABA conference attracts 300 attendees; ‘Funder, Deng and Barnesy’ among the highlights
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Approximately 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, which was held in Canberra from 29-30 May. ABA chief executive Joel Becker said he...
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...
Nielsen BookScan: Value up, volume flat in 2016 YTD; ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ the bestseller
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Nielsen Book general manager Shaun Symonds presented an overview of the market in 2016 at the Leading Edge Books and Australian Booksellers Association conferences. Symonds reported that value is up...
Close to 200 booksellers, publishers and authors attend 2016 Leading Edge conference
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Ninety booksellers, 75 publishing representatives and 22 authors attended this year’s Leading Edge Books conference, which was held in Canberra from 27-28 May. Leading Edge Books group manager Galina Marinov...
Mitchell second author chosen to bury manuscript until 2114 for Future Library project
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
David Mitchell has been chosen as the second contributor to Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, in which authors submit manuscripts to be buried until 2114, reports the Guardian....
Minimum wage to rise 2.4% following Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 2.4% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2016, bringing the minimum rate from $17.29 per hour to $17.70 per hour. The...
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,...
black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship has been awarded to WA writer Claire Coleman and SA writer Dylan Coleman. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development from the...
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...
Wilderness Society announces 2016 children’s book award shortlists
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Fiction Thirst (Lizzie Wilcock, Scholastic) The River and...
New study finds self-published titles a ‘fairly large presence’ in ebook market
Monday, 30 May 2016
A new Enders Analysis report has found self-published titles have become ‘a fairly large presence in the ebook sector’ but its market share is mostly limited to romance and speculative-fiction...
HarperCollins, Avenue Bookstore and BooksPlus awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference
Monday, 30 May 2016
A number of awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Canberra on 28 May. HarperCollins was named Publisher of the Year from a shortlist that included...
‘Reckoning’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced
Monday, 30 May 2016
Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning (Text) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2016 ABA conference awards night, held at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 shortlist announced
Sunday, 29 May 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe) Leap (Myfanwy Jones, A&U) Black Rock White City (A S...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Friday, 27 May 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in June, July and August 2016. The highest scoring fiction title was Liam Pieper’s The Toymaker (Hamish Hamilton, July), which...
Macmillan acquires self-publishing platform Pronoun
Friday, 27 May 2016
Macmillan has acquired NYC-based self-publishing platform Pronoun, which provides digital books publishing tools and facilitates distribution through Amazon, Apple and other ebook retailers, reports the Bookseller. Pronoun, which launched in...
Affirm Press signs exclusive international agency deal with Kaplan/DeFiore
Friday, 27 May 2016
Affirm Press has announced a deal with Linda Kaplan of New York-based translation licensing agency Kaplan/DeFiore Rights to exclusively sell rights to Affirm Press titles internationally. Affirm publishing director Martin...
Between the bars: Elspeth Muir on ‘Wasted’
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Elspeth Muir’s memoir Wasted (Text) explores Australia’s drinking culture through her relationship with her younger brother Alexander, who died when he jumped off a Brisbane bridge while drunk. It is...
Hiding in plain sight: Liam Pieper on ‘The Toymaker’
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Liam Pieper’s The Toymaker (Hamish Hamilton) tells the story of privileged, wealthy Adam and his grandfather Arkady, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz. It is a novel about how ‘flawed human...
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