Quote of the week
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
‘It seems strange that, given our geographical nearness and many cultural similarities, there aren’t stronger links between Australian and New Zealand writers and readers’—New Zealand writer Elizabeth Heritage on the tendency...
Wilderness Society announces 2015 children’s book award winners
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The winners of the 2015 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced.The winning books in each category are:Fiction Rescue on Nim’s Island (Wendy Orr, illus by Geoff...
Industry responds to Lantern cuts
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The Australian book industry has rejected reports that the Australian cookbook market is in decline following Penguin Random House’s announcement last week that its Lantern illustrated books imprint would be...
ABC Shops to close; bookstores, ABC in discussion over ABC Centres
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The ABC has announced it will close its ABC Shops to focus on its online store and ABC branded outlets in other retailers.The ABC has also sent a notice of cancellation...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
SalesNonfiction—Spinifex Press has sold Brazilian-Portuguese rights to Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing (Susan Hawthorne) to Libre Book Publisher and online magazines Opera Mundi and Painel Academico.Children’s—Alex Adsett Publishing Services...
RiP Hugh Stretton
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Australian author and social theorist Hugh Stretton has died, aged 91. Stretton was the author of several works on social theory and economics, including Australia Fair (UNSW Press), as well...
Mackay City Library to move to new premises
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Mackay City Library in North Queensland will be relocated to the top floor of the iconic ‘Dome’ building in the CBD after building owner David Denny donated the property to...
NZ library installs self-service facilities with Maori language option
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Palmerston North City Library in New Zealand has installed ‘smart serve desks’ that can operate in a variety of languages, including te reo Maori, reports Stuff.co.nz. Library members who are...
International library news
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Google partnership to increase Birmingham Library’s opening hoursIn the UK, Google is moving its ‘Digital Garage’ training program into the Library of Birmingham, resulting in a 26-hour increase in the...
NZ’s tiny libraries captured in BBC documentary
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
A new BBC radio documentary tells the stories of New Zealand’s tiniest libraries, reports the New Zealand Herald. The Search for Tiny Libraries in New Zealand was inspired by US...
RITA Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
In the US, the winners have been announced for the 2015 Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners in...
US audiobook sales up 13.5% in 2014
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
In the US, audiobook sales have increased by 13.5% from 2013 to 2014 according to the Audio Publishers Association’s (APA) annual sales survey, reports Library Journal. According to the survey,...
NZ company Booktrack raises US$5m in funding
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
New Zealand company Booktrack, which adds soundtracks and ‘ambient audio’ to ebooks and sells them from its website, has received US$5m (A$6.87m) in funding from investors COENT Centure Partners and Sparkbox...
Government considering zero GST threshold for overseas purchases
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey says the government is considering removing the GST threshold entirely on overseas purchases.After previously signalling his intention to lower the GST threshold, Hockey told the ABC the...
PRH to publish new Tim Winton book in September
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton on 23 September.The collection of nonfiction writing explores Winton’s relationship with the Australian landscape and ‘how it...
Co-op wins online retail award
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
The Co-op has won an award for Best Site Optimisation and Design at the 2015 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAS). The Co-op CEO Peter Knock said in the past year the...
UWA Publishing launches unpublished manuscript prize
Monday, 27 July 2015
UWA Publishing, in partnership with Copyright Agency and 720 ABC Perth, has launched a new award for an unpublished manuscript.The Dorothy Hewett Award, named after the Australian novelist, poet and...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 27 July 2015
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) was the top-selling book in Australia in the week ending 17 July, landing in the number one spot on both the top 10...
Brisbane Writers Festival 2015 program launched
Monday, 27 July 2015
UK author and journalist Jon Ronson will deliver the opening address at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 2 September, joining international guests Sarah Waters, Cassandra Clare and Holly Black, among...
Amazon announces surprise second quarter profit
Monday, 27 July 2015
Amazon has reported a US$92m (A$126m) profit and US$23.19bn (A$31.89bn) revenue in its second quarter ending on 30 June, surprising Wall Street analysts who were predicting revenue would be lower...
Writers Victoria launches prize for migrant writers
Monday, 27 July 2015
Writers Victoria has launched a new prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds.The Deborah Cass Prize will be awarded to an early-career Victorian author who was born overseas or has at...
The Wheeler Centre launches children’s illustration prize
Friday, 24 July 2015
The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne has launched the inaugural Ullin Prize for children’s illustration. The prize, named after the founder of The Little Bookroom Albert Ullin, will be presented annually at the Children’s...
Film adaptation planned for Abdel-Fattah’s ‘Does My Head Look Big in This?’
Friday, 24 July 2015
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s 2005 young-adult novel Does My Head Look Big in This? (Pan) is being adapted into a film, and has received funding in the latest round of Screen Australia...
ABC news director appointed SLV CEO
Friday, 24 July 2015
The State Library of Victoria has appointed ABC news director Kate Torney as its new CEO.Torney replaces Sue Roberts, who announced her retirement from the role in March. Justine Hyde...
Pearson sells ‘Financial Times’, focusing on education business
Friday, 24 July 2015
Pearson has sold the FT Group, which includes the Financial Times (FT), to Japanese newspaper and magazine publisher Nikkei Inc for £844m (A$1780m), reports the Bookseller. Pearson CEO John Fallon...
Scribe announces new children’s book imprint
Friday, 24 July 2015
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe has announced the launch of its new children’s book imprint, Scribble.The imprint, which will be led by Scribe art director Miriam Rosenbloom as commissioning editor, will publish around...
PRH imprint Lantern to cut titles, Gibbs to leave the company
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced its Lantern imprint will reduce the number of books it publishes in 2016 and 2017, and that Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs will...
Free children’s book vending machines placed in US ‘book deserts’
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Airline JetBlue, Random House and author Mary Pope Osborne have placed vending machines stocked with free children’s books in Washington DC communities it calls ‘book deserts’, reports Publishing Perspectives. Under...
December grants round cancelled under new Australia Council program
Thursday, 23 July 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its December 2015 grants round and replaced its six-year funding programs with a four-year model, under its new grant program introduced following cuts to the...
The other brothers: Stuart Kells on ‘Penguin and the Lane Brothers’
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Stuart Kells’ Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution (Black Inc.) is a new history of the publisher. Reviewer Tim Coronel says it will be ‘essential...
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