Australian libraries prepare for International Games Day
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
On Saturday 21 November more than 1000 libraries around the world will celebrate the eighth annual ‘International Games Day @ Your Library’, a worldwide initiative supported by the American Library...
Kembrey wins NSW Rep of the Year for 2015
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Jane Kembrey from NewSouth Books has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) NSW Rep of the Year Award, presented at the ABA NSW Booksellers Party in Glebe on 17 November. Stephanie...
CBCA announces 2016 conference program
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the program for next year’s national conference, to be held at the Menzies Hotel in Sydney from 20-21 May. The conference, entitled ‘Read: Myriad...
Costa Book Awards 2015 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award are: A God in Ruins (Kate...
ABC Books acquires rights to Mitchell Johnson autobiography
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
ABC Books has acquired the rights to Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s as-yet-untitled autobiography, to be published in the second half of 2016. ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, announced...
S&S to distribute Affirm Press
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Affirm Press has announced a new sales and distribution partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia, effective from 1 April 2016. The publisher is currently distributed by Hardie Grant. Warehousing will...
Analysts warn of additional Pearson profit warning after share price slump
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
In the UK, finance analysts have warned Pearson investors are ‘increasingly concerned about the risk of an additional profit warning’ after the publisher’s share price fell 5.6% to 773.00p (A$16.56) on 12...
Bloomsbury acquires world rights to Melbourne duo’s picture book
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Bloomsbury USA has acquired world rights to Melbourne-based author and illustrator team Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson’s Introducing Teddy, to be published globally in June 2016. In a statement the...
‘Guardian’ First Book Award 2015 shortlist announced
Monday, 16 November 2015
Six titles have been shortlisted for the UK’s £10,000 (A$21,394) Guardian First Book Award, including a poetry collection, a nonfiction title, a short story collection and three novels. Andrew McMillan’s Physical...
The Book Bird opens in Geelong West
Monday, 16 November 2015
A new bookstore, The Book Bird, has opened in Geelong West in Victoria. Owner Anna Tweed opened the Pakington Street store in October after previously working as a bookseller at Otago...
Maramenides joins S&S UK as children’s publishing MD
Friday, 13 November 2015
Former Five Mile Press and Echo Publishing managing director Alexandra Maramenides has been appointed managing director of Simon & Schuster (S&S) UK’s children’s publishing division. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...
NSW Rep of the Year 2015 shortlist announced
Friday, 13 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s NSW Rep of the Year Award. On the shortlist are: Dianne Dipietro, Penguin Random House Kay Drury, Allen...
Faber to close its sales and distribution service for small publishers
Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, Faber will close its Faber Factory Plus sales service for small independent publishers, reports the Bookseller. Clients of the service, which launched in 2012, including Lonely Planet...
IPG releases report into UK indie publishing sector
Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) has found more than half of the surveyed companies believe their business is growing, reports the Bookseller. The finding was in its...
Macquarie University study turns to publishers
Friday, 13 November 2015
Macquarie University researchers are surveying Australian trade and educational publishers for the second stage of their three-year research project into the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors, publishers and readers. The...
Second annual Australian Photobook Award expands categories to cover trade, self-published titles
Friday, 13 November 2015
The 2015 Australian Photobook of the Year Award has expanded to include categories for self-published and trade-published works. The awards ‘celebrate excellence and innovation in photo book creation, and provide...
Barry wins 2015 Goldsmiths Prize
Thursday, 12 November 2015
In the UK, Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone (Canongate) has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of six titles, Barry’s fictionalised portrait of The Beatles’ John Lennon ‘at a...
Jackson wins Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Thursday, 12 November 2015
New Zealand poet Anna Jackson has won the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2015.The fellowship provides the winner with a three-month residency in Menton, France, where Mansfield lived and wrote...
Wallace-Crabbe wins $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Goldsmith wins Best Writing Award
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe has won the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding...
Thames & Hudson taking ‘decisive action’ against colouring book piracy
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Thames & Hudson Australia is taking ‘decisive action’ to combat the piracy of two of its adult colouring titles, Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest (both published by Laurence...
New CEO, artistic director for Clunes Booktown Festival
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Creative Clunes has announced the appointment of a CEO and artistic director for the Victorian town’s 10th Booktown Festival, to be held from 30 April to 1 May. Richard Mackay-Scollay has...
HMH unveils line dedicated to science-fiction and fantasy publishing
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) will introduce a dedicated science-fiction and fantasy line from February 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. John Joseph Adams, who edited HMH’s first Best American...
More than 180 bookstores participate in first NZ Bookshop Day
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
More than 180 bookstores have taken part in the inaugural New Zealand Bookshop Day on 31 October, an initiative launched by Booksellers NZ to ‘celebrate the unique place bookshops have...
Sports Writers Festival to launch with ‘mini-fest’ in Melbourne
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
A new writers’ festival specialising in sports writing will hold a ‘mini-fest’ on 21 November in Melbourne ahead of its first full program in 2016. The Sports Writers Festival was created by...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
‘The arts scene can sometimes operate like a member’s only club where you need a blazer with a crest and a special key to get in’—poet Koraly Dimitriadis on the...
ALIA to offer ‘international peer-mentoring’ for librarians
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with the International Librarians Network (ILN) to offer ‘international peer mentoring’ for ALIA members. The ILN is a volunteer-run organisation that...
International library news
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Report confirms importance of school libraries and librarians In the US, Scholastic has released a research report at the American Association of School Librarians’ National Conference confirming the importance of...
Libraries awarded Community Heritage Grants
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of the 2015 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program, including a number of libraries. In NSW, the Waverley Council was awarded...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold the following rights to The Lovers’ Guide to Rome (Mark Lamprell): US and Canadian rights to Flatiron; German rights to Blanvalet; Dutch rights to A W...
Australian, Cambodian writers feature at inaugural Kampot Writers and Readers Festival
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall reports from Kampot: The inaugural Kampot Writers and Readers Festival (KWRF), featuring Cambodian, Australian and other international writers, artists and musicians, was held in Kampot, Cambodia, from...
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