Oz romance authors nominated for 2015 RITA Awards
Monday, 30 March 2015
Three Australian authors have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2015 RITA Awards.The RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas, are divided into 12...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 30 March 2015
Pete Evans and Nora T Gedgaudas’ new cookbook Going Paleo (Plum) is at the top of this week’s bestsellers and fastest movers charts, while Evans’ other cookbook Family Food (Plum) remains in the...
Survey finds print books popular among ‘millenials’
Monday, 30 March 2015
A new Publishing Technology/OnePoll survey has investigated the reading habits of ‘millenials’ aged between 18-34 years. The survey of 2000 consumers in the US and UK found that 71% had...
‘Strangers Have the Best Candy’ wins Diagram Prize
Monday, 30 March 2015
In the UK, Strangers Have the Best Candy (Margaret Meps Schulte, Choose Art) has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller. The...
Government report considers online GST threshold
Monday, 30 March 2015
The federal government has indicated in its ‘Re:think’ Tax discussion paper that changes to the GST threshold for overseas online purchases will be considered as part of its ongoing taxation reform...
Dymocks reveals 101 Club list for 2015
Monday, 30 March 2015
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) has topped the Dymocks 101 Club list of the best 101 books of all time for 2015, as voted by members of the company’s Booklover...
Goodman posthumously awarded CBCA Vic’s Leila St John Award
Monday, 30 March 2015
Jo Goodman has been posthumously awarded the Leila St John Award by the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). The award is presented annually for outstanding...
Debut authors celebrated at Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Friday, 27 March 2015
In the UK, Rob Biddulph’s picture-book Blown Away (HarperCollins) has won the overall and best illustrated book categories at this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Melissa Cox, head...
New book show to air on regional WA TV station
Friday, 27 March 2015
WritingWA has teamed up with regional Western Australia TV station Westlink to present a monthly program on WA writers and books.‘Cover to Cover’ will be hosted by broadcaster Meri Fatin...
Sydney Writers Festival 2015 program launched
Friday, 27 March 2015
The 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available on the website.Forty-five international authors will attend this year’s festival, which will be held from 18-24 May,...
‘The Bush’ wins Indie Book of the Year 2015
Thursday, 26 March 2015
The Bush by Don Watson (Hamish Hamilton) has been named Indie Book of the Year at the 2015 Indie Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books in Sydney on 25 March.Watson also won...
NLA announces new fellowships
Thursday, 26 March 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced a new program of fellowships funded by more than $500,000 in private donations, reports PSnewsonline.The program is divided into four categories: National...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies.Amanda Lohrey and Geoff Page return as editors of The Best Australian Stories 2015 and The Best Australian Poems 2015 respectively....
‘James Patterson is Missing’ wins best marketing campaign
Thursday, 26 March 2015
In the UK, a campaign to promote James Patterson’s work to existing and potential fans has won the adult category at the Best Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards, presented...
Online booksellers recognised in Australian ecommerce honours
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Online booksellers have been recognised in Inside Retail’s inaugural ‘Top 50 people in Australian ecommerce’ list, with five people from the industry making the list.From Booktopia, CEO Tony Nash and...
Online book buying overtakes in-store in the UK
Thursday, 26 March 2015
In the UK, online book buying has overtaken in-store buying for the first time in 2014 according to Nielsen Book, reports the Bookseller. Data revealed at Nielsen Book’s annual conference BookInsights...
Carroll to present Miles Franklin Award Oration
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Author Steven Carroll will present the Miles Franklin Literary Award Oration at the State Library of Victoria on 18 May.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the Australian Bookseller’s Association (ABA) will...
Walter Scott Prize 2015 shortlist announced
Thursday, 26 March 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction has been announced. The seven shortlisted titles are: The Zone of Interest (Martin Amis, Vintage), The Lie (Helen Dunmore,...
Adsett takes over management of Book Harvest Literary Agency
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Brisbane-based literary agency Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has taken over management of Ineke Prochazka’s Book Harvest Literary Agency (BHLA). Prochazka will continue to manage BHLA’s existing authors and subsidiary rights, but will...
Man Booker International 2015 finalists announced
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize have been announced. In the running for this year’s prize, worth £60,000 (approximately A$113,076) are César Aira (Argentina), Hoda Barakat (Lebanon),...
Second My Bookshop to open in Melbourne
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Bookseller Corrie Perkin will open a second My Bookshop store in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak in April.Perkin opened the first store in the nearby suburb of Hawksburn in 2009....
NLA announces new fellowships
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced a new program of fellowships funded by more than $500,000 in private donations, reports PSnewsonline.The program is divided into four categories: National...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
SalesFiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold the following rights to The Dressmaker (Rosalie Ham): US rights to Penguin; UK rights to Serpent’s Tail; world English-language audio rights to Bolinda; Czech...
Evans Head Library to receive $34,615 upgrade
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The NSW Government has committed $34,615 for the refurbishment of the Evans Head Library in regional NSW as part of the Public Library Infrastructure Grants program, reports the Northern Star....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
‘It seems that in cities like Sydney and Melbourne, wherever a bookshop closes, another opens. However, could it be that in the ACT bookshops will only end up existing in...
International library news
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Second Lemony Snicket ‘noble librarians’ prize announcedIn the US, Scott Bonner, director of the Ferguson Public Library in Missouri, has won the second annual Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians...
LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2015 finalists announced
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The finalists in the 2015 Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Russell Clark Illustration Award Marmaduke Duck on the Wide...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Amanda Lohrey and Geoff Page return as editors of The Best Australian Stories 2015 and The Best Australian Poems 2015...
SA retail workers union makes deal to cut penalty rates
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
In South Australia, the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) union and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business SA have struck a deal to abolish some penalty rates...
Sharma wins 2015 Folio Prize
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Indian-American author Akhil Sharma has won the 2015 Folio Prize for his novel Family Life (Faber), reports the Guardian. The Folio Prize, worth £40,000 (A$75,865), is open to novels published...
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